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Medium diving Crankbaits like the Bomber Model A are real effective in late fall around here . Simple to use to . Just beat the banks .

I've never used big Yum worms but use big worms .

You guys ever been out then come back with a ramp covered in snow ? I did it "once" .

In this map of a creek in Mark Twain Lake , there is the major creek channel to the west with several small creeks feeding it from the east . The east is a large flat used as a farm field . The squiggly lines on the map are woods . The area in the middle of the black circle I drew ,has a point "structure" , little creek channel " break line" that has a direct path to the deep channel and woods " cover" . These are the type of places I look for when studying maps . Its easily overlooked .

Its easy to confuse structure and cover , heck even the pros do it .Anglers on Youtube videos are constantly doing it . On this forum structure is generally defined as the bottom topography . Good structure would be a depth change such as a point , hump , channel.... All that timber in the photo is cover so would be rip rap , vegetation , brush piles.. . Thats simple to understand . Breaks and breaklines are a bit more confusing because it can be both cover, timber or even water clarity , and thermoclines . My understanding is a breakline is a change in the environment that can be followed ? Would this be a correct definition .

A friend of mine had one . He put a 150 on it , way over powered .I dont know but it was explained to me as a pop hull . Supposedly they made molds out of other hulls . Thats what the Skeeter dealer told me .

Heres an interesting find I made last year . Its a Lee Arms Company Red Jacket 32 cal rimfire Circa 1870's - 1880's .

I usually dont in the boat but I do bank fishing .

I was ice fishing in a small shallow pond about 8 foot deep and bored holes in the deepest section and caught none . I went to some shallow shoreline brush and caught a few .

I have one in my top water box that I dont use . IT may have been used it once or twice .

What a difference three years makes . My answer now is Red Eye Shad , bounce them off the bottom .

Yeah , were these bank tournaments ?

If thats acceptable then continue to use them .

I plan on going the next couple of weeks if we get some good old Indian Summer weather . I expect there will not be a thermocline , its been pretty cold here . I dont fish below light penetration . Thats going to be about twenty maybe thirty feet where I fish . I "assume" this because I use to have a light/temp probe . The light and temp always plummeted at the thermocline and being the deepest the thermocline has been this year is twenty foot , that will probably be my maximum depth . The first place I will check out is a point and will fish it thoroughly . This is a good bass producing spot so any fish echoes I'm going to assume are bass . They might not be bass but I'm not good enough to tell the difference . If this point doesnt produce then I'll go shallow . There is one hole in the back of a creek that hasnt failed me in three years .Its approximately 6 foot deep surrounded by four to five foot of water . It has produced at least one fish every visit . Its the remants of the old channel that hasnt silted in completely . Bass will pack in there at times , especially in the fall .

Ignore . I've never heard of Costa BFL .

I like to troll large flats and double the depths that crankbaits dive . So if I'm trolling ten foot instead of using something like A Deep Little N that fishes well at 10 foot I'll go with something like a Rapala Fat Rap that I usually fish around 5 foot . I try to get the lure to bounce and deflect off the bottom , not dig in . Large flats always end somewhere , often at a cove . That drop off can be a good place .

Is there a rip rap dam ?

Mine usually end up in a cup holder .

Usually not this far north but I remember catching bass during the snow on a winter day with buzzbaits . I would not have thought it but they were busting shad in a cove .

!. Thermoclines make it easier for me and it disappears in cold water . I dont have a clue about Alabama . If I see a lot of fish at a certain depth , thats a good place to start . Find them on a point then fish up to the shallows and on into the creek/cove is a good strategy . I like those creeks with a major point at its mouth . 2. This late in the year there is not enough time to be guessing where the fish are at . I'm going to hit a known deep area or two and if that dont work then fish the banks . How long to stay on a deep spot ? I dont know , just play it by ear .

Eufala is a classic deep water lake . Home of the Little George . I have a lot of success catching deep water fish but really dont know that much about it . First thing I do is look for a thermocline .That will be the maximum depth . Then I look to see if there is a depth most of the underwater life is congregating . I dont know why fish congregate at a certain depth but they do , maybe a higher O2 content there. Then with these two depths in mind I search out long extended points or other structure . I almost always use buoy's to mark the depth , fish , stump... My two main lures are Texas rigs and crankbaits . The key to crankbaits is they must make bottom contact . If I'm fishing 12 foot I'll use a crank that touches bottom in about 14 or 15 foot . Those Berkely Dredgers stay at the depth a long time and I have caught a lot of fish close to the boat using them . The Red Eye Shad fished like a worm has been very effective . I also fish channels , humps , road beds , flats... too . I'll often see a lot of activity say at 10 foot and the thermocline is at 18 or so . It will stay that way all across open water and finding structure at that depth may yield several dozen fish . Thats about it for me very simple but effective .

I'm one . Where should it be placed ?

AOY , I think is a more prestigious title . A person an luck into a population of fish to win the classic .

Same river different seasons .

The only two I ever caught fish on were the Cordell Gay Blade and this weird homemade bait I bought at a local store . It was made out of a spinnerbait blade weighted on one side and would come in sideways actually wiggling up and down not back and forth . I caught a lot of bass on it one day vertically jigging before snagging and losing it . It vibrated like mad . The tackle store got hit by a tornado and closed . I dont know where to find anymore like them .