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"No hablo english, Lady"

I always fish flukes weightless with a 3/0 ewg and a straight line tie and have never broken off. I will bump up to a superline hook if I need the extra fall weight.

Mojo bass "Jerkbait". I've fished both. They are very similar, though the expride a tad lighter I think. Pretty close though. That's the last gen, not the trigon.

You're not wrong.

I have a very comparative St Croix rod and use it for just about everything in its weight range. Great size rod. I wouldn't hesitate at all if I was considering again.

Looking at your picture more and thinking about the actual grade of the river, assuming upstream of the dam matches the downstream side, it looks like you have a nice ledge on both sides that would hold fish too. If the water level is the same as what is shown in the photo, it would still have to be a bomb cast, but there is not that much head there and that ledge should be in about the 20 to 30 foot depth. If the water is that low, the upstream side of the dam is probably in the 40 to 50 foot depth range at its deepest estimating from this photo provided. Thats a pretty short dam in height and even at full pool is probably in the 100 to 120 foot depth. If you can reach that natural ledge under water with a cast, you may have some success there. Looks like you would need to be on the bank to the left side of the photo to have a chance with that. You'd still need to bomb a 50 yard cast and let that bait sink about 30 feet to get to that ledge. I'd target the areas in red with deeper moving baits and bottom contact, and green with shallower baits. Blue line is a rough guess of where that ledge would be if it exists upstream side.

If you find them grouped up in the shallow eddies I think that could work, but big open water like that it is hard to use finesse presentations without knowing where the fish are.

Fish the points and eddies. Anywhere there is a break in the bottom surface is a good bet that it will hold fish. Rock to mud, big rocks to little rocks, rock to weed, etc. Personally I would start by fishing moving baits off of the longest points, casting as far out as possible, and casting at different angles if possible to get the bait to move across points, not just straight out and straight back to the bank. Depending on how deep those points drop off, I would target the 15 foot depth in the water column without really knowing where the fish are holding. This means you will want to throw an 18 to 20 foot diving crankbait to bounce off the bottom, or a solid 1/2oz or bigger spinnerbait or paddle tail swimbait. I would use a generic shad color to start. Electric shad color usually does well for bass no matter where you are fishing. From there I would move to jigs, tubes, and large texas rigged worms in natural patterns fishing the bottom structure of the points and eddies. Hop them through the rocks and drag them through the mud. Early in the morning and late in the evening I would also try a topwater like a megabass giant dog x in a bone or natural shad color across the points much in the same manner described above. Last thought, depending on the sun angle, I would also try to fish the shade lines as much as possible.

I say "I'm on" when fishing and "Here we go" just before I draw my bow on an elk.

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TW has bass Mafia unloaded dangerous swimbaits on sale for $5 per 2 pack. 6 and 7". That's a smoking deal. I bought a bunch.

No pics, but caught 17 yesterday and 12 today. 90% came on a 4" electric shad Mayor on an eighth ounce 4/0 weighted gammy ewg. Largest 4.35 lbs.

Was definitely small, but a nice store

Was randomly at Cabelas in Saginaw today with my boy and all the BPS MLF pros were there. The kid got everybody's signature. Totally random but kind of fun. Had no clue they were fishing Saginaw Bay this weekend. Heck, we don't even live here.

7'6" St Croix Mojo Bass "pitching/light flipping" rod. It is a great rod for jig style swimbait hooks. Fast with a solid backbone. I run it with a Curado k and 20lb copoly.

When water temps rise and there is a lot of vegetation, that sucks a lot of the oxygen out of the water. The fish will still use the grass edge for cover no matter how far off shore it is to hide and ambush prey, but they will be a little deeper and sit right on that outside edge. - OR- They will be deeper offshore holding in any sort of offshore brush pile/tree/underwater island/rock pile or point and ditches. That is at least what I have found in my experience in the dog days of summer.

In all honesty I did not fish it much as I already know how much fish I can catch on it.

Hydrilla goes from the bank to about 50 yards out and is submerged anywhere from one to three feet under the waters surface. Lillys start about 5 feet off the bank and extend to about 20/30 yards out. So 30 yards of weeds/lillys and an additional 20 yards of submerged weeds. The weed edge puts me in 15 to 25 foot of water as I work around the shore line. Mostly closer to the 15 to 17 foot depth. This photo has to be earlier in the year. There are a lot more lillys right now.

Biggest fish was right at 5 pounds. Most caught between 1.5 to 3 pounds. Are you asking how deep the water is at the weed edge?

Gamakatsu

Outside of karashis, what other baits do you think it would accel at?

First impressions of the 7' light?

In the last 7 days I made it a goal to fish every day in the same lake and to try just about every style of lure at my disposal as an experiment. This fishery does not see much traffic at all, and my son and I are the only ones I ever see fishing there. We kayak fish this small lake. It does not have hardly any bank access at all. It holds nice bass in both size and numbers. Average size is in the 2.5 to 3 pound range. My PB for the lake over the last half dozen years is 6.38 pounds. I did dedicate a decent amount of time to each lure fished to hopefully get an accurate account. I fished spinnerbaits, large and small soft swimbaits, large and small hard swimbaits, jigs with creature trailers, weighted and unweighted worms, soft and hollow body frogs, buzzbaits, walking baits, poppers, karashi's, shallow to deep crankbaits, lipless cranks, jerkbaits, and unweighted creature baits. I fished the lake for a minimum of three hours each outing. The temps have been high 80's to low 90's, with water temps in the upper 70's. It is a very clear lake with a lilly pad and hydrilla field on one end with deeper water and a bunch of lay downs on the other. I caught 86 fish, roughly 12 per day, and most of those fish came on only 3 different baits. I did catch at least one fish on every bait I tried except the hollow body frog, buzzbait, and the walking baits. The three most productive baits for this fishery in these conditions were a trout colored 6" bass mafia soft bodied unloaded swimbait with a weighted 8/0 gammy (there are no trout in the lake), oxblood colored unweighted 7" SK KVD finesse worm on a 3/0 gammy ewg, and watermelon crawfish colored (orange belly) Zoom Horny Toad on a 4/0 gammy ewg. I could not buy a bite on anything white/bone colored except for one or two on a 12' bone colored 6th sense crankbait. I am guessing the buzzbait and the walking baits were a no go due to the noise. The hollow body frog did not get a single strike, but they demolished the soft body toads. I caught just a small handful on smaller soft and hard bodied swimbaits, but probably 15-20 came on the bigger 6" bass mafia bait. The most productive bait accounting for probably 40 of the fish was the unweighted texas rigged 7" oxblood colored worm. Guessing that was because it pretty much looks exactly like a night crawler. I also found that most of the fish caught...probably 80%...came from just outside the weedline. About 50 yards from shore. My 15 yo son fished with me, catching probably 2/3rds the amount I caught, and 90% of his fish came on a black and blue fleck 5" yum dinger. He probably tried 5 to 6 baits in the 7 days. He also had decent success with a bluegill colored squarebill.

This is the only finesse jig I use. https://riotbaits.com/products/lil-creeper-jig?variant=42791835828450

Glad your safe, but the most important question...is the robe ok?