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So at my uncle private pond which I fish ALOT and they've been sufacing like crazying around 7 pm.. like everywhere! the thing is they won't touch anything i throw at them I've tried top water, spinners, squarebills ,weightless soft plastics, jigs,  etc... I only catch them after the frenzy has stopped... any tips for fishing catching this fish.. ?

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Rage Toad, Menace or Shad; MegaStrike Cavitron and Megabass Pop Max.

Walk the dog lures in jr. size,small poppers, friend would kill them with homemade flies in shad colors..try casting slightly outside a boil if doing that

  • Super User

what are they eating?

  • Super User

Bugs, there surfacing for bugs. I'd get some bass flys and poppers use a leader and a bobber on your spinning rod if you don't have a bass fly rod.

Checkout the flyshack and fishandsave for the fly fishing bass stuff. On eBay there is a guy from vt who makes bumble bees and mouse flies. He does some excellent work. I purchased a lot of his flys just for his quality workmanship. I never seen bumble bees tied like his.

Don't forget the rebel small bug cranks too. Just cast it it and twitch it.

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Bugs, there surfacing for bugs. I'd get some bass flys and poppers use a leader and a bobber on your spinning rod if you don't have a bass fly rod.

Checkout the flyshack and fishandsave for the fly fishing bass stuff. On eBay there is a guy from vt who makes bumble bees and mouse flies. He does some excellent work. I purchased a lot of his flys just for his quality workmanship. I never seen bumble bees tied like his.

Don't forget the rebel small bug cranks too. Just cast it it and twitch it.

that's what I was think using flys.. ill look into for sure

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I've tried small poppers and spooks of all sizes... jr I try a lot..

 

as to match the hatch I do...they eat blue gill, bugs, frogs, and  crawdads..

I have :(

Is it possible that they are carp? A lot of times carp will just roam around on the surface feeding like crazy and they won't touch a lure other than (sometimes) a small fly.

 

If they definitely aren't carp then i would say get a very small white soft plastic swimbait (an inch or less), and just nose hook it or texas rig it weightless. Use a spinning rod and cast it out where they are rising, and make it look like a dieing baitfish.

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Is it possible that they are carp? A lot of times carp will just roam around on the surface feeding like crazy and they won't touch a lure other than (sometimes) a small fly.

 

If they definitely aren't carp then i would say get a very small white soft plastic swimbait (an inch or less), and just nose hook it or texas rig it weightless. Use a spinning rod and cast it out where they are rising, and make it look like a dieing baitfish.

Yeah there isn't carp.. but I will try that I have blue gill pattern 3 inch swimbaits so I'll get some small white ones. I tried a white grub for about 10 mins...nothing.... my uncle used a very small spoon with a yellow feather tail had a pike 1st cast bass the second... then they wouldn't touch it after that... also I've tried flukes in every color they sell at gander and dicks...

Get a very small floating jerkbait ( less than 2" long), and toss it near them and jerk it half a foot or so deep and let it float then do it again. This is similar to the spoon technique.

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Are you positive they're bass? Some of our local lakes have huge schools of bluegills that push across the surface just like bass do, especially after a big bug hatch, and clean everything off the surface that they can eat. All our shad and baitfish are pretty tiny right now and a Zara Puppy in chrome/black is about the only bait the schooling fish will eat. 

  • Super User

zara puppy or the smallest pop-r you can find with oversized feathers on the rear treble. fish slow and let the feathers work.

Rage Toad, Menace or Shad; MegaStrike Cavitron and Megabass Pop Max.

 

Write it down, covered a few of my faves. 

 

If these are causing too much havoc at the surface (yes there is such a thing), then throw something really small profiled, because as mentioned they are eating insects. Bugs are subtle and small.

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  • Super User

Are you positive they're bass? Some of our local lakes have huge schools of bluegills that push across the surface just like bass do, especially after a big bug hatch, and clean everything off the surface that they can eat. All our shad and baitfish are pretty tiny right now and a Zara Puppy in chrome/black is about the only bait the schooling fish will eat.

Yeah I'm sure there bass I can see them with my glasses and I do catch one here and there its not consisent with the amount of surfacing I see.

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I have tried the pop-Rs and threw an 6 treble with a huge feather one fish.. I'll have to take out my jerkbaits next time I go out.

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