wilsjay

If anyone here has suggestions to specific wake baits, etc. to try (amazon link/something with pic), as I newbie I would appreciate it! Thanks for all the info!

You will see some small bait fish jump out of the water, but I am pretty sure it is the bass eating something. We have been going a couple times a week for the past month or two to this lake and I never seen activity like this. It was kind of crazy. No shad here in my area, they mainly feed on minnows, crawls, sun fish, blue gills I think. I have heard there are also some decent catfish in this lake in the deeper parts, but where we fish it is fairly shallow.

Me and my son just started fishing this summer really. Nice little lake by our house with a lot of bass. We have been killing them all summer just on Senko's really. We just got what feels like our first taste of cooler fall weather here today. We went to the lake to fish, 4x more people there than there had been all summer. We throw our trusty Greenpumpkin senko's fish are now jumping EVERYWHERE we think we are going to kill it. We got 2 bites all evening! My son did hooked what would have easily been his PR on one of them and it spit the hook about 3 feet from the bank. Just before dark I swap from green pumpkin to a junebug color still zero luck. Lastly I switched to black colored swim bait (https://6thsensefishing.com/collections/6th-sense-curve-55/products/curve-55-syke-craw) and fished that till dark, but still nothing! HELP! You could tell and see fish active all around us but we couldn't catch a thing and did not see anyone else landing any either! What to do!?!

Never heard of them. Will have to check that out. After 2 recommends and watching a couple youtube videos I think we need to try these whopper ploppers! Although at $12-15 each I am going to cry if we get snagged! :) Moving spots after maybe 10-15 minutes of not catching a fish there. Any specific recommendations on spinners/chatters? I have no idea and would just grab something from the store shelf. I have a couple of different frogs and have not caught anything on them. They look fun and would LOVE to see something hit one of those! You lost me on that last bit as newbie I am not sure what caster, wakes and buzzbaits are yet!

Relative newbie just getting into bass fishing with my 11 year old son in the last month or two. Needless to say we are having a blast. The lake by our house seems to have tons of bass in it. So far we have been using senkos Texas rigged. Best luck has been on green pumpkin color. I have not had any luck with crank baits and we seem to get them hung up more than anything. It is a good size lake with really shallow banks and lots of weeds, downed trees etc. My question is our bite always seems to fall off right at dark. Is that common, should I be switching to something else at that time? Also I would love to (and see my son) catch something on a top water jig, but have not had any luck. Since it has been dead of summer hear and 85- near 100 degrees even in the evenings when we go, I am wondering if it is just wrong time of year for that or when is best to try them?