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Ideally I will find long extended points and fish them with texas rigs and crankbaits .

As long as I have some crankbaits , spinnerbaits , buzzbaits and worms I feel I can catch fish anywhere .

Norman deep Little N is a good bait for ten foot . The Dredger 14.5 is good for 12 but it isnt very buoyant and might not be a good choice in snaggy areas . The dredger 10.5 strangely is buoyant .Strike King 6XD works well to about seventeen foot . These depths are reached using 12 lb Big Game .Shad colors are always a good choice .

Oh my mistake . Howdeep do you want the lures to go then ?

Are you keeping tension on the line ?

You're filling a spinning reel with a revolving spool ?

I would think that a barbless hook would work well until the bass jumps . Correct me if I'm wrong .

WRB already explained the trouble with fishing deep divers from bank . You would want a lure that dives fast . A Berkely Dredger 10.5 will get down to 8 foot relatively fast .

Spinning reels and spincasting reels both give me a difficult time spooling them without line twist . I have the line coming off the spools correctly but it still happens . What I do is after it is spooled I walk the entire spool off in the grass in a straight line then reel it in . Winding through the grass removes all the twist .

The drop in temps might turn them on . Me . I dont go finesse because of a cold front , I will try what has been working and adapt from there . Deep fish might be unaffected , shallow fish might be tighter to cover . Theres a cold spell going on here too and I expect the bite to pick up .

First , do you have the equipment to handle large baits ?

Like WRB said .Something that sinks will be able to fish from deep to shallow and follow 100 per cent of the contour .

You need to to do what most are not willing to do . Fish the heaviest vegetation there is . I would bury the hook in the Senko Texas style not wacky rig it . You still might not catch anything . Heavy fishing pressure sucks .

Whenever I get skunked I feel better knowing that somewhere out there somebody is getting skunked fishing for sunfish .

Here , I was thinking Table Rock was to hot for me .

Rollincoal420 You are surrounded by lakes . You need a boat , it doesnt have to be fancy . Most of my fishing is done out of a 14 foot jon boat powered by an elec motor only .

Table Rock.

I love buzzbaits . Have worn a bunch of them out over the decades . Black , white ,chartreuse ,yellow they all work .Make sure they squeal by crimping the rivet in place . Hold them out the window on the way to the lake . I think a buzzbait is a buzzbait and some of my best ones have been generic . The three I have in my box right now are Lunker Lure , Cavitron and homemade ones .I've been using the homemade ones the most . Ahhhh 6 year old post .

No doubt there are springs in the local lakes but they would be small . I dont think they would be detectable by sonar , fog , ripples , or surface temps .

This sunday or monday night I'm planning a night fishing trip.I will give white buzzbaits a try . Monday is full moon , Sunday 99 percent illumination but the moon is already high when dark hits .

Theres been article after article telling how good these places are and I have never found one . Just wondering how rare they really are ?

You cant force the bass to hit a certain bait . I stick to whats working .

If your fishing lakes with rip rap banks , those are usually accessible and rip rap is good cover .I lose more lures in rip rap than anything so I go cheap . Those prerigged soft swimbaits like the Storm and Berkely work well . I like to cast to different depths let them sink to the bottom then follow the contour back with different retrieves . Buzzbaits paralleled along the banks work well late or on grey days .

They work well at night and they have that rattle .

I use black but dont know if its best or not .I use it because I have always heard black is good . I also read to try white on a full moon . Thats when I fish so I might try it the next full moon .