Clint

I love a weightless trick worm, you can twitch them across the top or let them drop and slowly bounce them along the bottom. White and watermelon both work well for me and provide a nice range. I'd probably try that or a trap, but I have a lot of confidence in both. Like avid said you can really learn a lure in this situation- I gained a lot of confidence in poppers under similar conditions, and we all know your best tool is confidence. And always remember: tie on a white or firetiger rooster tail and you can't help but catch fish!

I've had great luck catching bass and big bream on my Baby Bass Pop-R, worked right along a weedline. You could probably T-rig an old gym sock and catch a bucketmouth with the right presentation. ;D

Well I suppose some of them might have been bream, but I certainly saw some nice bass leaping fully out of the water... Typically when I see bream feeding on top they make a small "pop" and a little splash as they slurp bugs from the surface, but these fish were definately coming up out of the water. I did find it strange that I kept seeing the large fish feeding but none of the small swirls and splashes I expect from smaller fish feeding or schooling. The activity seemed to follow the creek bed pretty closely, so perhaps I did see bass chasing the smaller fish from below. Guess I just need to get back out there. Thanks everyone!

I left work a bit early yesterday, bank fishing my favorite cove on the local reservoir late afternoon through early evening. The sky stayed overcast the whole time, the water had virtually no surface disturbance and looked pretty stained. I pulled in one largemouth, about 2 pounds, on a Mepps original inline shortly after I got there. Of course I hung up and broke off right after that... As the sun dropped more I started seeing bass breaking the surface regularly, all right along the creek bed as the cove widened. Looking forward to some topwater action I started tossing a Pop-R, but they didn't want anything to do with it. After remembering reading that still-water situations make for tough topwater fishing I tried a spinnerbait just under the surface, and twitching a floating Rapala in as many different rythms as I could, but still got no takers. Just hoping someone can help me figure this out... what would you have thrown?