We're having a couple of mild days this week.  Partly sunny tomorrow, and I want to fish. Choices include (1) a standard, typical bassy sort of lake, or (2) a regular pain in the a$$ lake that I happen to love beyond any reason.  I've chosen (2).  I've never caught a bass there.  In fact, the only two fish I've ever caught there were on the same afternoon and about 5 minutes apart (brown trout, using a Rapala jerk bait steadily retrieved in the main lake on a random cast. This might help more than my description.

file:///C:/Users/lowwa/Documents/Fishing/Locations and Notes/Aeroflex Depth Graphic.pdf

If you look at the PDF, it can be enlarged so the numbered can be read.  It's quite steep and deep, and I'm in a kayak with no electronics.

Guessing I should come prepared to address different depths of the water column. Can only do three rods, but can tie-on in the field.  Thoughts include DD cranks, spybait and sinking spoons, possibly jerkbaits for the main lake for any LLSalmon or Lake Trout that might be around.  I would want to try an A-rig, for practice in casting if nothing else, but I don't happen to have one.    
Does anyone have any inspired ideas?  Thanks! 

I'd take some jig/ craw baits. Fish them slowly.

44 minutes ago, Masaccio said:

We're having a couple of mild days this week.  Partly sunny tomorrow, and I want to fish. Choices include (1) a standard, typical bassy sort of lake, or (2) a regular pain in the a$$ lake that I happen to love beyond any reason.  I've chosen (2).  I've never caught a bass there.  In fact, the only two fish I've ever caught there were on the same afternoon and about 5 minutes apart (brown trout, using a Rapala jerk bait steadily retrieved in the main lake on a random cast. This might help more than my description.

file:///C:/Users/lowwa/Documents/Fishing/Locations and Notes/Aeroflex Depth Graphic.pdf

If you look at the PDF, it can be enlarged so the numbered can be read.  It's quite steep and deep, and I'm in a kayak with no electronics.

Guessing I should come prepared to address different depths of the water column. Can only do three rods, but can tie-on in the field.  Thoughts include DD cranks, spybait and sinking spoons, possibly jerkbaits for the main lake for any LLSalmon or Lake Trout that might be around.  I would want to try an A-rig, for practice in casting if nothing else, but I don't happen to have one.    
Does anyone have any inspired ideas?  Thanks! 

 

 

I'd say pick a different lake...  I mentioned that lake in the 'why do you fish where you do thread' though didn't name it.  When most bass tournaments don't top 40-50" of fish for a full day of fishing during a good day and the biologist reports don't show a high bass population that tells me it isn't a bass lake.  If you want to go for trout or lake trout then by all means.  For that I'd troll rapalas on a 'carolina' type rig about 20' down.  You'll get some exercise paddling and enjoy the weather.

 

I too was planning to go out tomorrow after this warm rain and 55 degree weather, but looking at a very different lake.  I can't go now, but I was planning to slow roll spinnerbaits/chatterbaits and drag jigs along the weed edges.

I was thinking of a spinnerbait too, as sortve a substitute for an A-Rig. Similar presentation, it seems to me, on a smaller scale?

Yeah, I thinking that dialing back my ambition might help putting me out there. Since “being there” is the best teacher, right now I need to make it more about enjoying myself than hook-up numbers. There’s a ton to be learned just throwing lures in our local lakes. Thanks for responding. 

And the result was?

     I am going to a PITA lake for the weekend too.  This lake takes me 3 to 4 hours to get there, the wind blows 20 to 30 MPH., every afternoon, making fishing from a kayak a challenge. The local farm kids party at the launch on the weekends, which is next to the only place I can camp, making sleep almost impossible, and I always loose way to many lures at this lake.  Why did I pick this lake?  Because it is my best shot at catching my biggest bass of 2022.