Air temp 70

Water temp 64

Water clarity stained

average depth ranges from 3 to 8 feet with deepset water about 11 to 12

partly cloudy sky

What would ya do?

spinnerbait

I would pitch beavers and bush bugs at the trees.  If they would hit a moving bait I would run a square billed crankbait into the trees.  Also I would kill to be there.  Looks awesome.

Ooooooooh would I love to fish that!

I might try slow rolling a spinnerbait (bumping it off of anything I could) or a crankbait with a tight wobble. If that didn't work for me, I'd slow it down and throw a dark coloured jig or maybe a T-rigged worm. Just what I'd do.

Good luck and have fun!

I would pitch a Jig & Pig next to each one of those stickups. 2 or 3 times.

Ronnie

I would pitch a Jig & Pig next to each one of those stickups. 2 or 3 times.

Ronnie

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I would pitch a Jig & Pig next to each one of those stickups. 2 or 3 times.

Ronnie

Took the words right out of my mouth, although I'd also try a pegged Baby Brush Hog, or pegged Ragetail/Paca craw.

Water temp 64

Water clarity stained

average depth ranges from 3 to 8 feet with deepset water about 11 to 12

partly cloudy sky

What would ya do?

DID SOMEONE SAY SPINNERBAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you would take away the Spanish Moss that would look just like my home lake.  I'm with Alpster,  I would be all over that with a jig.

64 and stained, I'd have to start with a Sammie on the shady side of those stand-ups.  Then I'd switch to a white spinnerbait, pitching it towards the shore from above the channel drop, and working it back along the bottom with big hops.

Find the depth changes and spend all you time fishing the trees on the edges of the change. Go to the shoreline trees that are out in the water and fish the grass or moss beds at individual point trees or weed lines. Throw fast movers til you locate the right structure and then slow down and pick them off one by one. Remember your successful locations and go back to them again if needed. Change, change, change, look for change. Cypress stands are great if you find change.

not my favorite to fish, but a bright colored spinner would kick some major bass here

This time of year???

With a water temp like 64 I'd be looking for spawners.....

Cypress trees generally have a doughnut-shaped root system underwater all the way around them. The bass will be suspended up above the roots or stage out in front of the trees on limbs, branches, logs, stumps or debris.

Water temp 64 which tells me it's either spring or fall; both should mean active bass

Water clarity stained with an average depth ranges from 3 to 8 feet with deepest water about 11 to 12 & a partly cloudy sky. This means the bass shouldn't be tight to cover and willing to chase reaction baits.

Under the above scenario one should be able to use which ever technique/lure is your strength. Personally I would throw top water, spinner bait, or rogue/trap and follow those up with either Texas Rigged plastic or a light jig. When I have a bass miss the reaction bait I would immediately follow up with the plastic.

Another personal preference I would fish it at night with a big ole nasty buzz bait or Jitterbug with a big worm back up.

definetly a spinnerbait or square bill crankbait    knowing me i would throw a topwater as well  a buzzbait looks good maybe a spook or pencil popper  depends on the forage

My honey hole here in NC is a spitting image of that photo.

My solution?

Grape with red firetail Culprit (tail dipped in red Spike). Split shot about a foot above the texas rigged worm and I am throwing at those stumps from every angle possible ;-)

Spinnerbait first then followed up by a jig or tube.

great topic, dont want to step on anybodies toes and start a new thread but can we post pictures on many different situations, deep water, docks, shallow, lilypads,grass,windy, rainy,overcast,sunny, just a suggestion i think it would be very entertaining kind of like a test, like you go to a new lake or pond and you see something like lillypads and bang, you know exactly what to do.

btw i would use a topwater first then a spinnerbait chartreuse

1)I would start with a spinnerbait or square-billed crankbait banging off the wood.  

2)I would then try a t-rigged plastic (weightless and weighted) or a jig and trailer in the Cypress knees.

(As an aside, when I was a kid I fished a lake that had a bunch of Cypress trees.  I wasn't familiar with too many lures, so I used mainly floating rapalas, countdown rapalas, and t-rigged worms.  I had a great deal of success casting countdown rapalas near the Cypress trees and letting them sink down to the Cypress knees, and then reeling them back in at a moderate pace.  I loved fishing those Cypress trees.)  

I would first throw a big slow buzzbait and then switch to a spinnerbait (pretty fast retrieve).

If that doesn't work, I'd pitch a jig a couple of times to the tree I find the most promising. Like the trees on the edge and with a good access to deeper water wearby.. I'd alos love to find trees+weed or debris.

Rapala DT-FAT 07 and 03

Id fish a spinner first then go over the better producing places with a jig or wacky rig to make a hawg mad enough to bite.

Spinnerbait FTW.

If the water is 64Degrees in the spring I would fish a square billed bait first but then I would switch to a senko fairly quickly since there could be a ton of spawners at the base of the trees/ on the cypress knees.  I would fish it slowly as if I were blind sight fishing for spawners.