Foots good Ken, barely slowed me down, at least no where near getting older,LOL. Did have to reduce standing at the trolling motor to 8 hours versus 12 hours.
Walked along the Catawba yesterday in Rock Hill, was amazed the flow was good and river is clear. Lower end of Wylie is clear upper end is muddy, will be out on Wylie in the AM was out yesterday morning and Wylie was clear.
Unless square bills and ripping through grass, I would stay with mono. The extra stretch will be your friend if you can not keep the bass from jumping. If you use braid you may want to consider your hook set. A very slight sweep will stick them and no more.
Do not think anyone, at least myself, is comparing a bass to a sucker. All I am saying is they will take a bait off the bottom. Probably not the true definition of a bottom feeder. The question did not pertain to them being a bottom feeder in the first place.
Seems I read somewhere that a bass can suck a bait In.Even seen video proof of it. Seems to me that provides for the ability to feed off the bottom. At least that seems logical.
Try pegging the weight, yo u made not mention of this so I assume it was not pegged. Keeping the weight tight to the bait will help some and allow you to swim a bit through the weeds.
Might just be a poor hook set. I found that too much parabolic is not good for a hook set on square bills. I set the hook hard but still needed a stiffer rod, changed send corrected the problem.
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