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Of the tree you listed I would choose the prop. To me , floating minnows are the best around the spawn . just cast it out and let it set . some days the bass will be in pockets , some days on points .

In the mid 80's i created a soft plastic walker . They actually walk real well .

Heres mine

A small chartreuse spinnerbait .

I havent found a soft plastic craw that didnt work well for river smallies . Hula grubs , Guido bugs , Larew Salt Craws , Hales Craw worm. Reneagade craws... Tubes and skirted jigs are also great choices .

I think that some limits set forth by the Missouri conservation Dept encourage the success of bass that genetically dont grow big . The lake I fish the most has a fantastic population of fish in the slot 12 to15 inches , but not so much above it . I think , instead of a a slot or a minimum length limit an experimental maximum length limit could be tried . Six fish creel limit, 15 inches and "under" l and only 1 over fifteen would be legal. I would think it would turn into a trophy lake but I'm no biologist .

Right .

Bomber Prop A for top water ,otherwise thee same stuff I use the rest of the year .

Bomber Prop A . Silver Flash . No longer made but I have a half dozen .

Youre right . Bass dont leave teeth marks . I made the whole thing up .

LOL . OK .

Soft plastics , look for teeth marks . Zoom lizards , Guido Bugs and other smooth shiny lures will show the teeth marks well .

Roland Martin once made a television show bass fishing on a carp and gar pattern .

There is this slough I use to fish full of carp . Twice I caught big bass trying to snag a carp by ripping a jerkbait through a school of them .

The fish dont always hit what you want them to hit .

Manns jelly worms are neato .

Alone . Saturday I went fishing with my sister in law . She had a junk baitcaster that broke after ten minutes . I dont get to fish often enough now days and when I do go I dont want to babysit . ,

For small bass , I cut right through the rib cage . Larger fish I have to work around it unless I have an electric knife .

Ive been in the same "boat" . As the boater was busy covering copious amounts of water " he probably read about it in Bassmaster " with a spinnerbait , I casted a Texas rigged worm with a 1/4 ounce weight into shallow cover . lift and drop a couple of times then repeated . I won that two day event . I've been told several times that I fished a texas rig faster than anyone they ever seen .

I have an overactive brain . Some might call it HADD . Fishing calms me down . I feel more normal when fishing . I think thats why I love it . Metal Detecting and hiking after a fresh snow are also therapeutic .

I would pick mon /tues the 18th and 19th because of the light wind . I just fished from a yak for the first time saturday . I was fishing a river and it was very windy . Half the time I made a cast the wind would turn me around . No fun .

Use a lot of sinking lures . I have found that prerigged swimbaits like those from Storm or Berkely are good and inexpensive for covering all depths of water quickly . Keep Casting them deeper and deeper allowing them sink to the bottom . When retrieved they will follow the bottom contour , where bass likely are , all the way to the bank . If you get snagged and lose it , then hit that spot with a texas rigged worm . Of course you cant do this in weed choked waters .

I dig those bucktail underspins .

I caught thousands of bass on that style worm . Looks like they may be Mister Twister Phenoms or Manns Jelly Wiggler . Green worms were not as popular then . Fliptail made a lime green worm that I used a lot .

The bass I catch have white , flaky , mild tasting flesh . I dont do anything special to prepare them . I usually drag them around on a stringer for hours before filleting them . I keep the fish under the slot so they are 11 to 12 inches long and delicious .. One lake I go to has a 12 fish creel and no length limit . The conservation dept is begging people tp remove fish . I fished there for three days and brought home 72 fillets . Had a fish fry and everyone loved them . Even people who say they dont like fish .