The past few weeks have been tough. In May, June and July I was getting into some nice size bass and catching 6, 8, 10+ on every trip to the pond. That really dwindled in August. Last week in over 7 hours I had one catch (maybe 14”) and that was it. So I’m going to fish tomorrow or Sunday with some new presentations and see if A-I catch any bass lol; and B-learn how to fish some different styles. 
 

I’ll have one spinning rod rigged with a 5” Senko WR, just in case. The other spinner will be set up for a dropshot rig with a 4-1/4” Strike King KVD dream shot in dirt. It’s a shallow pond so I have the hook tied 12” from the sinker. 
 

One baitcaster has a jig with a 3.8 Keitech in sungill (caught the one bass on that last week but still a new presentation for me), and the other BC is a Carolina rig with a 3/8 oz. bullet weight and plastic bead and 18” of leader to a purple Zoom Mag II ribbon worm. I haven’t fished a Carolina rig since sometime in the 70s or early 80s when I knew nothing about how to effectively fish lures (and got bored easily and fell back to live bait. Ah...youth!). 
 

Should nothing produce, I have a weightless GYBC watermelon/black flake 4” Fat Ike on a 4/0 Gammy EWG and a 4.8” Super Impact Fat Keitech in sungill on a 3/16 oz jig head to try. I may also use that or the 3.8 Keitech as a trailer on a couple of War Eagle spinnerbaits as well. 
 

If you have a better suggestion on how to rig that 4.8 Keitech, let me know. Both baitcasters are spooled with 12 lb. YZH. 

 

When times got hard did you try a smaller offering such as the deadly Nedly?

That is one that I have not tried yet. Probably next on the hit parade. 

When I start struggling with a weightless senko I'll often times switch to a weightless trick worm on a spinning rod..I've had that save several days for me the past few years.

Wow. Today started out rough. I used the Carolina rig, dropshot rig, weightless tube, jig and Keitech trailer, Fat Keitech, Whopper Plopper and got zilch. Not even a slight bit of a bite. I even used a Senko WR and was getting skunked. Until this megabass hit the WR. 
 

 

I think it was barely longer than the 5” Senko lol. But at least I wasn’t skunked. I needed to hit the road so I casted a few more times. On the third cast I thought the line was running but it stopped. Then it took off. 
 

I reeled in the slack and the hook set. OMG, it felt like my a new PB. The bass took off, turning my small boat in circles twice. I let off the drag it was pulling so hard. After 5 minutes I finally got it in the net. It was just over 2.5 lbs but that bass wanted to fight!

He swallowed the hook deep, but I got it out with no blood loss and it swam off fine. 
 

 

When the fishing gets tough you gotta keep going! Nice fish by the way  My go to set-ups have always been stickbaits rigged weightless or with a weighted (1/8-3-16) hook. 4"-6" creature baits are my next best producers, followed by ribbontail worms. Good Fishing    Dave