LrgmouthShad

I post this again Ive since learned, though, that @A-Jay is not the real bait monkey. Who controls the @bait__Monkey account? @roadwarrior maybe? Show yourself! Bait monkey keeps telling me to buy chatterbaits again… to give them another try… still ain’t happened. I eat bait monkeys for breakfast. He might be convincing me to get other stuff but that’s not the point….

Understand for sure… being in a tournament it’s gotta be doubly hard. But you’ve got the talent that if you miss one or two fish… no biggie ?

I may not have had enough control of the fish, admittedly. Enough for open water but perhaps not enough when grass is in the equation. I just didn’t wanna horse her. I’ve been fortunate to not have many stories like this… but this one…. This one hurts

Hey ya’ll, Well, my skunk has ended with the devils horse, but it is bittersweet. First one that took it for me was a biggun. I won’t guess how big, but it was enough to make me say “holy s**t” when it came out of the water. No blowup, really. It just lazily rolled over onto the horse and sucked it in. Waited for a split second till I was sure she had it, and then laid the hammer on her. Battle her for a good while, and she tangles herself in grass and she comes off. I only caught small ones the rest of the day. I can still see the fish; her rolling over on my bait is just a tape replaying in my mind. GOSH DANGIT!! ??. Just here to vent

No s**t there I was…..

Can’t say I’ve heard of that but I have heard of putting a smaller crankbait on a Carolina rig to get it down to deeper depths.

Swing head has been in my rotation this summer. Pretty cool way to fan cast an area quickly

Why so pessimistic? At the very least maybe somebody brings up a rod that you didn’t know about and then you do your own research on the rod thereafter. Still, I wanna know what rods you’d recommend for this. You’ve recommended gear on here before

Geez… all of us? And if we’re spending the money, shouldn’t we do the research and get recommendations?

I’m thinking maybe you could start with a t-rig, making long casts, and then as you fish longer, you could work the area around your kayak with short pitches with a jig as maybe the fish will have become more comfortable with your boat presence by then. What do you think?

I want to know what @Deleted account thinks

I hear a lot about skipping jigs, skipping weightless plastics, skipping frogs, etc, but seemingly less talk about skipping Texas rigs. Even unpegged a creature bait seems to skip real well.

I read up on that as well. The average bass you catch out of there is really small and there are lots of those little farts, however, I fish there on occasion because it holds some great big fish. It’s where I caught my PB and a fellow who fishes there has caught some nice fish out of there as well, including one DD.

I’m a little jealous. This has not been a topwater year for me. I think I have the “first cast curse”. My first fish of the year, little over 4lbs, I caught on a buzzbait (Was in NC in March) after NY. I literally cannot recall catching a topwater fish since then. Maybe somewhere I forgot about one.

I struggle sometimes with convincing myself that I can trust what I see on the fish finder, but getting better. I’m not going to waste too much time fishing unproductive water because if they ain’t biting they ain’t biting but at the same time, I ain’t gonna waste an anchor and something did draw me to that spot in the first place, often structure, baitfish, etc. As an aside, I also feel like I can find a “spot” but I need to get better at finding the “spot within a spot”. That is the type of stuff I need to anchor on. Just some thoughts I have

Yup…. You right. I know it is, just not there yet

I like it, my trouble is kayak. Wind drift often causes me to fish too fast over a location or lose it entirely. My choices often are to fish quicker than I’d like, fish while drifting which I don’t often like, or anchor. Recently, I’ve been opting for anchoring, but I try and choose where I anchor very carefully. I’ll get better at it, I’m sure.

Hey ya’ll, Used to be, I’d pick a bait and run through several locations before changing baits. Now I pick a spot, and run through several baits before changing locations. Now I anchor more than anything else. So far so good, but don’t ask me where the bigguns are cuz I still ain’t found them ?.

From my time fishing Oneida, I remember well that any places where the grass is interrupted by some other hard bottom like rock is a good place to fish, as well as anywhere there are significant depth changes, or where the grass mats up. Your lake may be similar

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Hey ya’ll What are your favorite baits/rigs to fish in floating grass? I am fishing a Texas rig and jig through this stuff okay but looking for other options. Edit: to clarify, I am not talking mats. Just clumps of grass free-floating. It is bladderwort

Got some Siebert Dock Rockers in 1/4oz recently. They are pretty sweet. I don’t really pick the trailer based on how well it skips.

Sunscreen + gallon jug of water, ain’t been burned or dehydrated yet

I’ve done this with a jig and it works even through pretty thick grass

Interesting yours is about a color. I’ll keep that purple thing in mind ?. Here are a few pieces of advice I’ve found most helpful. I can’t possibly only pick one. - KISS - Location is #1, timing is #2 - Reel spinnerbaits slower (Just sayin what works for me) - Don’t beat the bank