ajay i did read a lot of posts in this thread..  i read the book about 6 times and im on my 7th..  a lot fo patience is needed.. and does help you with other baits.. i was just wondering what was the biggest bass you pulled out of your lake this year?

 

also stitching is awesome. I've only got one fish doing that.

 

 I felt the fish pick up the worm , let her swim with for a while as she took up the slack and then i set the hook!  She was just like the pictures illustrated in the book. where the bass takes is off the rocks and swims away! but in cold weather i find it hard to do just because my fingers go numb. Hopefully next year you have a better of go of things using his techniques!

 For the purposes of this project, the largest fish I landed was this one that took a Hudd.

 

Funny thing is, the few times I was able to get out for some mid and late summer night time spinner bait fishing, the numbers & quality of fish was much better.

 

A-Jay

 

 

 

A-Jay, I feel your pain on the muck bottoms.  So many local lakes have muck or mud bottoms here, it really makes it a struggle.

 

What I did, and winters a great time for it, is pour through a lake map book or dnr site.  I've got a hit list of bodies of water around me all ready for next year that have sand or rock bottoms.  I'm sure you've already done this yourself, but to save others the trouble/struggle I figured I'd mention it here.

Thanks for the sympathy & the Info.

 

The few sand bottom lakes in this are usually are very good smb, walleye & trout waters.  Not a bad thing really but somewhat counter productive to my goals here.  

 

The MI DNR just recently updated the lake maps on line.  So I'll be checking them out for new intel.

 

A-Jay