Bigfoote

Oh, that's a good idea, with all the food, it might take some time to notice me. I had that feeling as well. There is so much food available and they are essentially in open water. Not much cover to ambush from, it was bright at this point too. They were about 2-3' off the bottom, in 15' of water the school would be in a ball from about 8 to 12'. I have exactly that, will give it a shoot. The ole' dead stick trick.

This weekend I was seeing schools of smaller fish everywhere. I stopped and jigged a few to confirm what they were. It was bluegills, yellow perch and crappie. Sometimes all schooled together. I tried a jig with a grub & swimbait trailer in bluegill colors, jig in more of a perch coloring, deep & medium crankbaits in bluegill, shad and perch patterns, spinners and eventually tried a senko dropped through the school. Beside some very small bass and big crappie, I couldn't get anything to bite. I could see larger fish on the electronics around them. All my descent fish were caught flipping into the lilypads. It seems impossible they weren't feeding on them with all the schools of bait. Give me some ideas on how to hit them. Water temp was 68 at surface, natural lake with weeds out to 15ft but surface weeds stop at about 5ft. Clear water, about 8-10ft visibility.