Can anyone catch these things. I cannot consistantly stay on these fish to save my life. Any advice would be great.

JT

Have you tried a rapla X-rap shad swimbait

hey the guys from up north will be a bigger help to you..... they fish em all the time....... I'm from Texas, but have fished em a lot at Whitney and SQUAW creek.........

If you are gonna fish with lures go with crawworms....... or jigs with craw trailers and another good lure is the strike king rocket shad..... slow roll it deep--- bounce it off the bottom....

Think rocks rocks and more rocks...... and clear water... this is where they will be....... look for rocky points and look for drop offs..... say 10 to 25 foot and they will be there.......  I've caught a lot up in creeks on the drop-offs...  

I've caught some big smallies at Whitney and Squaw and the truth is was all with live bait....... at Whitney I caught them on live small shad and at Squaw on big shiners!!!!!!!!  up to 5 lbs........

I just used a spinning reel and a few splitshot to sink the bait down... set the drag loosely as these are POWERFUL FISH!!!!!!!! good luck- let me know how it turns out........ you might even try a bucket of bass minnows if can't get any shiners.........