Most of the bass have already spawned in a lake I fish at and are now actively feeding on fry. I've been having moderate sucess using an wacky rigged worm but can't get the fish that are feeding on fry to take my bait. I have tried top waters, crank baits and spinner baits, but the bass just ignore them and keep chasing the fry.

 

what should I use to target these post spawn fish?

Had an experience 2 years ago just like this. Fry everywhere, we could see big fish, but only the dinks were biting. Tried everything and out of desperation, flipped a Ned rig at some fry. We ended up with over 80 fish that day and several were over 18". It must have looked like some kind of small predator chasing the fry and the bass just couldn't stand it.

7 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Had an experience 2 years ago just like this. Fry everywhere, we could see big fish, but only the dinks were biting. Tried everything and out of desperation, flipped a Ned rig at some fry. We ended up with over 80 fish that day and several were over 18". It must have looked like some kind of small predator chasing the fry and the bass just couldn't stand it.

I'll give this a try if it's still the same case when I go fishing again. Would you just swim the ned rig through the fry or would you let it sink to the bottom?

larger swimbaits, a swim jig, or a paddle tail on a drop shot basically anything that imitates the forge that would eat the fry should work well if they are guarding fry

13 minutes ago, Scarborough817 said:

larger swimbaits, a swim jig, or a paddle tail on a drop shot basically anything that imitates the forge that would eat the fry should work well if they are guarding fry

In agreement with Scarborough.  I was going to say, are you sure they are eating the fry?  Sounds like they were guarding them or something.  

24 minutes ago, lmbfisherman said:

In agreement with Scarborough.  I was going to say, are you sure they are eating the fry?  Sounds like they were guarding them or something.  

I'm sure they were eating the fry and not just guarding them. On the surface of the water I would see what looked like small bubbles popping and when I would get closer I could see it was fry jumping at the surface as a bass was chasing them from underneath. In other instances I would see bass sitting in brush or rock piles and as the school of fry would get close the bass would come out to ambush them and then go back to the rock when the fry swam away. The bass were also breaching the surface as they came at the fry from underneath. 

47 minutes ago, lmbfisherman said:

In agreement with Scarborough.  I was going to say, are you sure they are eating the fry?  Sounds like they were guarding them or something.  

i would add a jerkbait or a small a-rig if you have one as well as swimbiats and swimjigs.

Bass hate competition even more so when they are in cannibal mode.

16 hours ago, CenCal fisher said:

I'll give this a try if it's still the same case when I go fishing again. Would you just swim the ned rig through the fry or would you let it sink to the bottom?

We would cast it so it fell straight through the fry and it rarely made it to the bottom. Never did have to impart any action on the bait. We tried any number of usually productive baits in that situation and they all failed, but for whatever reason they couldn't stand the Ned falling through their fry. 

Downsize -a lot.