Buzzbaiter

I do something like this with 1/32 and 1/64 oz jigheads, but instead of a normal Ned bait I use a curly tail grub without the curly tail. It has a really nice spiral on the fall and does a lot of damage on creek sunfish, although I’ve never tried it on trout. I might try it there

Sometimes you’ll see a whitish area on the river, often with rocks. These are the rapids you’re looking for. Another way is to look for places where the river bends at a steep angle. These spots are usually deport with a faster section of water at the head of the pool

Owner Ultraheads are the only ones I use. They stand up when you hop them, have a great hook, come through structure wonderfully, and have a keeper that keeps plastics pinned and straight

My goal for this spring/summer is to catch a decent striped bass from the shore. I fish at a lake that apparently has a population of big stripers (30-50in). The problem is that I haven’t the slightest idea of where they live and how to target them from the bank. The lake is a highland reservoir with lots of creek arms. The main forage fish are sunfish, common shiners, golden shiners, and a variety of smaller minnows. My plan (if you can call it one) is to find a point and liveline a golden shiner on one rod while casting a swim shad on the other, but there has to be a better way to do it.

Long time lurker on the website, this is my first time posting. I went fishing at a local pond yesterday and I noticed that the bass were acting differently than they normally do. They were sitting very visibly in the shallows, holding right up against the bank near submerged timber. They were just sitting there in broad daylight, not even hiding in the shadows. The fish were all about the same size, 12-14 inches. Whenever I tried pitching to them, they always spooked. I tried tubes, Texas rigs, senkos, spinnerbaits, and swimbaits, all to no avail. What were they doing, and how do I catch them? For reference, the water temp was a bit more than 50 degrees. It was prefrontal, low pressure day with mixed cloud cover on a new moon.