Bankbeater

Try at night or in low light conditions. It could be that since the water is so clear you are spooking the fish away.

My guess is when the guy started fishing this pond he was in the same boat you are in now. After 10 years of fishing the same place he probably even knows where all the cover is located.

Jigs seem to be the most consistent around here when the weather starts getting chilly.

When your old enough to know right from wrong without being told.

Brazen is right. There was a story in the local news a couple of months ago where they hit a Ford dealership. The crooks made off with 12 or so tailgates.

I was wondering if anyone around St. Louis had ever fished in this lake?

I only throw shallow running baits and plastics from the bank. Usually when I hang up its just out of reach or just past the drop off.

When the senko, or one of the knock offs get too beat up I cut it in half, and cut the back off the tail just enough so that it is flat and not pointed. I fish it on a light spinning reel and the bass eat them up. For brush hogs I cut them back a little and make jig trailers out of them.

Yep seed tick are the worst. I went out walking the bank a couple of years ago with tennis shoes on and no socks in ankle high weeds. I had about 4 of them down between my toes and pulled some more out of my tennis shoes. Now I always were socks.

Stained You need to make long casts in clear water so the fish cannot see you.

Pearl white or watermelon fished weightless.

Nice One!

Make sure you keep a good quality set of pliers in the tackle bag. If you take them out be sure to put them back in again.

If the guy running the boat knows how to operate an electric motor and knows how to steer the boat, then I don't see any difference which end of the boat you are fishing from. If the guy doesn't know how to steer, and doesn't know how to operate the boat, then your screwed.

Jigs, t-rigs, and c-rigs in deep water.

You have to remember that the bass doesn't care what type of boat you're using.

That is a once in a lifetime trip you had there.

Congrats on the new PB.

Congrats on the good trip, and hopefully this heat spell will break soon.

Got out on the water yesterday morning a little before 6 AM and the temp was already 80. We tried topwaters for a while around some islands and around the bank, but couldn't get any bass to come up. We switched over to t-rigs and jigs about 7:30 and finally found them. The bass were either in water 15 to 20 feet deep, or they were in big weed clumps growing around the deep water. We decided to leave around 12:30 when we were running out of water, and the temp was 95. We had boated 14 lm bass, and all of them were around 1 to 1-1/2 pounds

Mick Jagger, but I probably wouldn't remember it

WTG! Those are some nice ones!

That bass looks chunky! Nice one you got there.

I just hope that the DNR is talking to a biologist before they start dumping weed killer into the lakes.

Its alright around here until about 9:30 or 10:00 AM, then it feels like your under a heat lamp for the rest of the day.