Now that the water is warming up, what tactics are you utilizing? 

Ive caught 10 nice bass in the last 2 weeks. One 5.5 and his big brother over 6.5 on a 1/2 ounce black and blue weedless Jig from Wally world. $1.57. Also, had great luck on a Boo-ya 1/4 ounce Chartruese spinner bait. 2 big ones on that jig in stained water. Threw it up on the bank under heavy cover and both strikes were in less than a foot of water.

small jigs and grubs and big swimbaits - and frogs of course and a boing or spook

Frogs have been the mainstay for me for a few weeks now.

Texas rigged Baby Brush Hog in Green Flash, 2/0 straight shank hook, 1/64 oz weight.

Stanley Ribbit in watermelon red/pearl, 4/0 EWG hook

Santone 1/4 oz spinner bait, gold willow/silver colorado, white/blue/charteuse shirt

Zoom Super Fluke in watermelon slice

Swim jigs on the Tidal Potomac River and 10" ribbontail worms on the reservoirs.

Patience ~ Extremely High Levels of Patience . . . . .

 

 

A-Jay

Spinnerbaits and jigs. Or jigs and spinnerbaits. And a buzzbait for fun.

crankbaits swim jigs and frogs

Honey Candy Rage Cut R

June bug RI Trixie Shark

June bug Zoom Magnum Speed Craw

All after a green/pepper Scum Frog.

Mike

soft plastics and lots of topwater

Patience ~ Extremely High Levels of Patience . . . . .

 

 

A-Jay

 

That's about it for me. I keep going out but all the ponds in my area have shut off since about last week. Can't catch 'em on finesse techniques like dropshot and shakeyheads, can't catch 'em on topwater, can't catch em on cranks, don't even see bass cruising around anymore. They spawned about a month ago, and got out of their postspawn funk about two weeks ago. I whacked em for about a week, then the bite shut off. 

 

VERY frustrating. 

Jigs

Texas rigged Rage Craws

Weightless Fat Ikas

Bladed Jigs

Squarebills

Shakey heads

1)TOPWATER- Frogs, Rats, WakeBaits

2)JIGS- FootBallJigs, SwimJigs, StandUpJig/ShakeyHeadJig

3)SWIMBAITS-FloatingHardSwimbaits, GlideBaitsSwimbaits, & just your good ole'                      

   Huddleston8In"/HuddlestonWeedlessS   had/Huddleston68Weedless  

 

PS: Summer Time Tip or STT 

 

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Mostly small jigs and small t-rigged plastics.

Just about any kind of Topwater bait,reaction baits,and finesse baits have been working for me.

Texas rigged Baby Rage Craw, and Northstar and Seibert swim jigs with Swing Impact trailers.

1/4 oz Jigs

Senko

Frog

Texas Rigs

Shallow; frogs, jigs and wake baits and buzzbaits

Mid-depth; cranks and Spooks

Deep; football jig, cranks and C-rig

 

Any depth, or most anytime; Jig, Tube, Worm

Square bills and weightless wacky rig

Throwing marker buoys out and using Texas rigs . Doing a lot of motoring and studying the  depthfinder. I enjoy doing that .

Throwing marker buoys out and using Texas rigs . Doing a lot of motoring and studying the  depthfinder. I enjoy doing that .

Paul Elias style https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=9&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CEIQtwIwCA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DJQaDcqt2weM&ei=jPB2VaXCHYv2sAWe_YO4BQ&usg=AFQjCNGS6VsUYn4Z9MUIQ-Vh6VNfbIAj_Q&sig2=OOrX9-9jCmVQ666sTVe8Pg&bvm=bv.95039771,d.b2w

Paul Elias style https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=9&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CEIQtwIwCA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DJQaDcqt2weM&ei=jPB2VaXCHYv2sAWe_YO4BQ&usg=AFQjCNGS6VsUYn4Z9MUIQ-Vh6VNfbIAj_Q&sig2=OOrX9-9jCmVQ666sTVe8Pg&bvm=bv.95039771,d.b2w

Love that video

Misdirection

Poppers all day, man. Yep, landed a 7#er over yonder on a yellow one.

Paul Elias style https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=9&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CEIQtwIwCA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DJQaDcqt2weM&ei=jPB2VaXCHYv2sAWe_YO4BQ&usg=AFQjCNGS6VsUYn4Z9MUIQ-Vh6VNfbIAj_Q&sig2=OOrX9-9jCmVQ666sTVe8Pg&bvm=bv.95039771,d.b2w

Paul is one of my favorites . When he lands that big fish he disengages the reel when it surges.