Out of all the places I fish only one of them holds salamanders, and not many at all. For me lizards don't work so well, I tryed them a few times with little to no success, altough the pickerel do seem to like them, but that doesn't say much :.

Now I don't believe because they do not live in the area of water your fishing the bass are not going to hit them, but I do belive prey that bass eat more commonly in that area of water will get bit more easily. Although I do great with creature baits, but the reason for this IMO, is because most look like (to me atleast) crawfish, frogs, or some type of insect. I do talk to people who tell me they do great with lizards in the same body of water I don't do so hot with them. I personally think all anglers have different baits they do well with. So try the lizard, if it works for your then congrats, if not it might just not be a bait you personally have success with. But all in all its definetly worth a shot, you can always fall back to baits you have more confidence in if it comes to that.

NO. A lizard is probably my #1 springtime plastic lure. I have never seen any lizards around the lakes I fish. I believe that salamanders eat bass eggs and that is why bass I think have like a instinctive reaction

Last time I checked, there weren't any buzzbaits in my pond, but the bass love em.

Fish it anyway--its a predator-- you don't need to match the hatch--thats for trout

I didn't know that so many of our family were BIOLOGISTS! How did you find out that there were no sallies in the waters you are fishing?  I was just wondering..i learned long ago that just because you don't see something doesn't mean it's not there.  :-?