scaleface

Let it sink , thats what makes it versatile . I like to hop lipless lures off the bottom in deep water .

I have a 22 foot Lowe and a 115 Evinrude . The rubber v-block on the transom saver keeps breaking .I dont know if I even need one . Have any of you come up with something different ? I saw the Wedge Motor Support that looks like it would work well .

I'm just going to leave the stock as is . Thanks for the replies .

Hello Keith , no one is tyrying to be disrespectful . The way you describe it in the opening post " Tons of bass, huge ones. They give you this big adrenaline rush because they will just hit the surface all the time, no longer than 5 mins per hit. Sometimes three in a matter of seconds. They're huge too, sounds like a human jumping in. " it just doesnt sound like bass behavior . They might be , were just slightly skeptical .

Bass dont flop . Carp flop .

I used Rapala crankin raps with rattles . Many years ago I had a good night using Arbogast Mudbugs without rattles.

My two largest bass last year were caught at night fishing a crankbait off a point . There is no secret strategy other than being on a good spot ., just cast and reel.

I wouldnt follow these instructions . Those big old bass are going to follow the 50 foot deep channels . In some lakes I guess .

No . I didnt know you could use a phone like that . I'm just amazed .

I'll be .

Just tell everybody you caught one under 8 lbs .

Fishing for channel cats I like to use a floating jig head made for walleye . Carolina rig it with a 1 ounce sinker and two foot leader . I'll put a small shad on the jig head . It works real well , except after one fish the jighead is usually destroyed . I also caught a white bass on a cigarette butt just to prove to someone I could do it .

When bass are taking a crankbait deep I dont lose many . When they are barely hooked I lose a lot . Small bass I reel them in and dont care if they come unbuttoned , large bass I am very careful with .

All my deadsticking is done accidentally . I'll be preoccupied doing something else and a bass picks up my bait . Maybe some day a light bulb will go off inside my head .

Since WRB pointed out that small unnamed creek channel , I followed it up and it takes a u-turn creating a small point before petering out in 10 foot of water and inside standing timber . Thats one spot in this area I have not seeked out . Im sure it is silted in but still worth investigating .

You're right , It does fluctuate a lot and fast . Bass will follow the routes between deep and shallow during these fluctuations . A lot of offshore structure that has no follow-able route to the the "shore " do not hold concentrations of fish . In the early years , that was not the case . There wasnt a lot of fluctuation and the lake was more stable ,so there were populations of bass way off-shore in shallow areas next to deep , but all the flooding along with extremely muddy water during the past twenty years has stopped that . The bass no longer have time to populate those areas before the next flood comes , and with no follow-able route to those areas the bass no longer habitate them . This map shows a lot of routes . Standing timber bordering creek channels is a very good route for the bass to follow

The squiggly lines are timber . . The broken parallel lines are unimproved roads .

I did not know a basses mouth gets softer in warm weather .

Oh , thats timber . If you notice it borders all the channels . All that timber is still there ..

WRB , i didnt see that 3rd creek channel near where the River and Brush Creek meet but there it is plain as day .. Thats why I posted this . Those two points have a lot of timber on them .

I think youre referring to the road . There is a fence showing north of the buildings on the upper part of the map The fences are marked with little x's .

My guess , someone who does not know much about fishing found a tore up plastic crawfish and tried it out .

The area right of the H is 25 foot dropping into the channel . The one left of the K is 20 foot dropping into the channel .

Its the South Fork of Salt river and too the west is Brush creek .

and buzzbait .