I fish a very shallow and high pressured lake have been in a slump lately and I’m wondering if anyone has any lure ideas

 

Slow along the bottom with a Zoom Finesse worm.

 

Wacky, Texas?

Nvmnd

13 minutes ago, Dahed said:

Wacky, Texas?

Nvmnd

I like Texas rig. Fish it slowly

Color? In murky water

2 minutes ago, Dahed said:

Color? In murky water

Try junebug.But, the key is slow retrieve.

Just now, Mobasser said:

Try junebug.But, the key is slow retrieve.

This works for me, but that's almost all I use anymore so there's that. The other guys probably have some other ideas. Good luck

Thanks 

What are you currently fishing? 

 

I agree with the above recommendation but I would fish a regular zoom trick worm cut down to 4" and would fish it split shot style using 4lb line. 

Ordered some today Slug-go. Weightless. Been using them since the 80s

I agree with @Mobasser Texas rig, slow. @Dahed how deep is shallow and what kind of bottom?

Might try a square bill, with pauses and let it float up, then crank for a little while, then pause again. Try different pauses and cranks at different intervals. It has a rattle and might attract with the water being murky.

Let us know how it works out. 

53 minutes ago, bowhunter63 said:

Ordered some today Slug-go. Weightless. Been using them since the 80s

Sluggo makes an excellent Scrounger trailer. Make sure you rig the Sluggo straight on the hook shank with fully exposed hook. Properly rigged the Scrounger/Sluggo should run with a tight wiggle not a whobble.

Tom

I like Berkely Power Worms in watermelon. Zoom finesse and trick worms in watermelon red, white, green pumpkin. All rigged weightless or split shot rigged.

 

Might try a light Carolina rig with a floating worm or lizard worked slow.

 

Colors I would use would be natural: black, white, smoke, watermelon, pumpkin varients. I wouldn't use chartreuse tails.

 

Try soft split rings for a quieter crankbait. 

 

 

Spit'n Image worked slow, with a twitch every 1-2 seconds for topwater.

Try a ned rig. 

3 hours ago, GRiver said:

I agree with @Mobasser Texas rig, slow. @Dahed how deep is shallow and what kind of bottom?

Might try a square bill, with pauses and let it float up, then crank for a little while, then pause again. Try different pauses and cranks at different intervals. It has a rattle and might attract with the water being murky.

Let us know how it works out. 

Average depth is around 5 feet and pretty rocky bottom

Sounds like a good place to try weightless plastics/dropshot/subtle topwater/jigs/t rigs/C rigs.

 

What I often like to do on super pressured fisheries is find out what works the best for most people when fish are super cooperative and then tweak that presentation so that I'm doing it differently from everybody else and that usually racks up the bites pretty quickly.

 

If a frog is good on a lake I'll throw a tiny frog or a giant frog and fish it very fast or very slow.

 

If a worm works well and everyone says throw a T rig - I'd find the worm that no one in your state has ever thrown and order a couple bags and throw them on a c rig.

 

Fishing pressure usually just means the fish have seen a lot of what is sold at the local Walmart tackle section etc

 

Sometimes you don't have to be good - you just have to be a little different.

Try a tube.

Weightless swimbait 

The ponds and lakes I fish all get pretty hard. I go with BFS gear or something finesse.  I like the Shimano Tiny Macbeth, Evergreen PC-5 and the Megabass BFS Griffon for crankbaits and I like small trout minnows, like the Megabass GH Humpback 50.

 

Also, down size your line and your gear if possible. 

I’m gonna try drop shotting with small plastics anyone have recommendations for small  “ floating” plastics

Any of the Z-Man plastics - maybe a CrawZ or Hella CrawZ for something a little bigger.

 

24 minutes ago, Dahed said:

I’m gonna try drop shotting with small plastics anyone have recommendations for small  “ floating” plastics

If you are using dropshot, you don't need floating plastics.... in fact you may well want to avoid floating plastics in a dropshot.  I don't know how the bass feel about it, but it looks very unnatural to me

In that situation I fishing the smallest lures I can find. Super ultimate finesse.  

 

...or live bait. 

If the bottom doesn't have too many snags you could try a small jig and craw.  I like a 1/8 oz. size for pressured water.

I'm going to try drop shot on the heavily pressured lake I frequent, just to break things up. I'll probably start with a Zoom Fat Albert Grub as that has worked well for me on both texas and split shot rigs

Not a fan of casting a drop shot rig more then 30’, prefer the slip shot when casting over 30’.

Lengthen the hook to weight length to about 24” I lieu of 8”-12”.

4.8 Flick Shake worm (watermelon candy) wacky hooked works good when cast horizontal on a drop shot.

Tom