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Fish a few spots like you describe on one of my frequented lakes. Graphed and casting landmarks mentally ingrained in my head. Wind speed and direction play a major roll in how I go about things if i find my self heading to one of these areas. 8/10 times I'm hitting it with a drop shot first to see activity level. If some of the above mentioned techniques are not producing, don't be afraid to be patient and let a slow falling bait (senko, light ned) work through a prime area if the wind allows.

Method to my madness. Buy tackle warehouse gift cards in December at 10% off. Do 2 bulk orders of the items I primarily use a year. Line, terminal, ect. Have a nice storage space setup to see what my inventory of each item is. Use the local maw and paw store that has a excellent selection to get through the summer for anything I feel lacking. Also use a few other places like Siebert's to fill out the needs. Headed into summer where I'll fish 2/3 times a week and 8-10 tournaments I shouldn't need to buy much.

Fogy with a Jenko tremor shad. Any subtle increase in speed sends it hunting. This recent recover that I posted to the found lure thread. Color has faded and something nipped the tail.

Bass Resource...their sponsors would hence be mine and I think I would be set.

It was a little shocking. Then my brother caught a 2nd one. Was south of Virginia Beach. Based on conditions they are known to come into the surf from time to time in that area with legal sized fish being a real rarity. FL is on by bucket list to surf fish. Have caught stripped bass and blue fish on plugs in the Massachusetts surf to a small hammer head off Hilton Head but the Florida outing has alluded me.

Snagged a lost fogy off a concrete foundation that has about a 3' face to it. Now if it would just give me everything else back I've lost on it. Think it will be salvageable after a couple months soak.

First cobia out of the surf. The skate and stingray bite was good training for pulling bass out of heavy grass in the coming weeks. 5 rays in 30 minutes is a fully body workout.

Used my split ringer pliers that recently have been misplaced and worked great for light and heavy braid. My teeth really hope they turn up soon.

Canadian craw trd fished on the lightest head possible for your conditions. Stretch some of the salt out and lather it in mega strike. Swim it, hop it, or dead stick it. Be happy you get to travel home without the a skunk following behind.

By this time tomorrow the hope is for a clear beach, some cold beverages, and schools of blue fish willing to blast a plug. Only one of those items is guaranteed. I'll be close to some decent bass water but probably will spend most of the week chucking ounces of lead with cut bait or throwing lures if the conditions suit. Hoping to cooler water temps keeps the masses off the beach so there is longer windows to fish.

What is everyone seeing in their local markets for price and supply? I've been patiently waiting to for the right 17'5"+ aluminum boat to pop up for a electric build since 50% of lakes a fish are electric only and are a grind on the trolling motor. Been holding off due to prices and what is available. In the last 30 days that has seemed like its starting to change and there has been more boats up for sale.

All based on what it is. Z-man products fish better used IMO. keitch/craws/trailers I'll use as long as they still function as intended. I burn through the maxscent products. The fresher the better.

As much as I don't want it to be, the c-rig is is one my my most successful techniques when it comes to the dog days of summer with the sun high in the sky. Bass in my local lake have move into 15'+ of water and skittish in the clear water. Dragging in to known structure is approach one. Fish usually will take on the pause and at times needs to be fished painfully slow. Working a the deeper sides of points can generate action and allow you to cover more of the bottom then other soft plastic techniques. Also if wind is make bite detection hard using other techniques, the c-rig can come through in a pinch to help remain in contact with the bait. Targeting the deeper outside edge of grass can also be successful. Strikes often come when the weight or bait pops free from sparse grass. It's not the most enjoyable bite, but has brought several limits of fish to the scales when plan A didn't work out.

It's going to take awhile to "catch up to" the amount of pond bass reeled in on a Bass Assassin fluke as a kid. Pond hoping with a pack and a few hooks would lead to a raw thumb. In public water, a ned style bait is various retrieves is on the fastest pace to catch those worn out flukes.

At last count there were 32 rods in the garage, but that's 20 years of accumulation of fly, surf, inshore, ect. Sure there is more reels and countless amount of gear. I don't want to know the total of all of it....just thankful for having all of it.

Was on a solid large mouth bite with them being on any wood extending in 3-4 fow. Crappie were on the same pattern. Was a enjoyable outing and eventually just switch over to targeting crappie and catching around 20 with some decent size.

Yes I'm 2 months late on this. Grew up fly fishing in central PA so went through the fly fishing stigmas. On a fly fishing forums it pops up every couple years if you could only fish for one species what would it be. My answer is always carp, nothing like a good mulberry hatch. As for the topic in general there was a point in my life I would have turned my nose up to the general bass fishing community. Glad a grew up past it and now can enjoy all of it.

Simple....Banjo Minnow. If you include saltwater, ect. some gulp products have some serious movement off the shelves.

As of the last 3 years I'd have to go with the Berkley Maxscent lunch worm in motor oil. T-rig, C-rig, light shakey. I've tried my darnedest to get a bigger bite with the 8" version but have yet to consistently do so.

What lb test did you have issues with? I bought a spool of 12 around the same time period. Didn't notice an issue putting it on but have had some suspect break offs the few last week. One of which was at the rod tip with a full casting distance of line out. I've been chalking it up to poor line management and being rough on it this spring.

The ollie's local to me had the same thing. Word got out and they were picked over fairly quickly. Assumed they got them through a liquidation and was a 1 time deal but that was 3 years ago. Might have to swing back in.

Use a lot of the typical trailers mentioned above. Something a little different I've yet to had have major success on yet but know there is going to have its day is the Jenko tremor shad. From messing around with it in clear water its the first trailer that creates a "hunting" action on a steady retrieve.

Often throwing in to cover as choporoz said, so mostly on a belly weighted hook. Have been very successful using an owner flash swim in various retrieves. As for open style hooks I find my self often down sizing in length and using a simple ned style hook lately. Sieberts 1/10 oz tungsten ned head has served me well and reduced the amount of varying terminal tackle carried around.

Give me my Penn Torque with any reel and a 4 oz pyramid and I could drag some local lakes in 1 cast. Bite detection could be tough. For the technique you are describing for whatever reason I've fallen on a simple Lews Mach 2. I have 2 of them I can consistently cast the distance I want and outshine much more expensive reels. Sure I could find something better but it does exactly what I want.

Even if it was a very successful outing I usually think back through on what I could have done different. The most common regret is usually "I wish would have fished a drop shot back through areas I pulled out fish. " Even this week after pulling 5 fish off a very specific piece of structure I continued to beat it with the same swimbait and crawl for the next 50 cast. Thought driving home was I should of slowed down and held a bait on it as I would bet a substantial amount of money there were more then 5 fish holding on it.