Over the past few seasons, I've changed presentations to cover the same conditions mostly with better results. The waters I frequent are heavily fished and being a proponent of 'showing them something different' I've been using different lures and presentations to do so. Swimbaits. For wake baits, swim jigs for spinnerbaits, bubba shot for C -rig, not to forget burning a spinnerbait so the blade breaks the surface occasionally or walking a Spook so painfully slow that I could sing 'Happy Birthday' between twitches or banging a DD22 through rocky cover in 8ft. Of water.

These different approaches have all but replaced the old standbys for me. Have you done anything similar and if so, how's it been working out for you?

Soft plastics:

 

MegaStrike Tube Craw and MegaBug

 

Rage Tail Menace, Toad, Structure Bug and Cut-R

 

I am fishing the Tube Craw on the Evolution ShakE2 Professional.

The Bugs using a Jika rig.

Along the same lines, I've all but replaced my flukes with slender tubes. It's just another bait that I use more ways to reduce the bulk of baits that I was carrying AND give the fish a different look at the same time.

I think it was Rick Clunn who says there are no limits in bass fishing - Bill Siemental says something similar - all great bass fishermen experiment - With the pro tournaments influencing the market it's easy for a bass fisherman to forget he can blaze his own trails.

I'm a big fan of thinking outside the box or fishing something differently then most especially in heavy pressured waters.  Giving them something new to look at or in a way they haven't seen sometimes pay off big.  This year it's been swimjigs and the bifflehead dragged across waters normally fished slowly with a plastic worm or fished with spinnerbaits or cranks.  The more I fish them the more confidence I have in these as well as fishing the bigger swimbaits I used to use during the late fall to early spring throughout the summer with good results since most have stopped showing them that.  Like stated above, all great bass fisherman experiment.