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I don’t use O rings. I use truck worms rather than senkos. I just hook in the middle, with a #2 EWG hook, and a bullet weight depending on the conditions that day. I jerk it up hard and let it fall back usually along ledges, either rock or outside weed lines. I vary how long I let it sit still until my next snap. The bass will tell you.

The answer is yes!

I have caught bass with hooks in them from someone many times. They were willing to eat with hooks, and even hard baits attached. I once caught a 4 pounder with a beautiful bone color Zara Sppok attached. This became my number one top water bait for several years. Another time I lost a big bass on Bill Dance deep diver and for an hour heard the bait rattling at the surface at different location a hundred yards away from the lost site. I threw a Senko into a distant location and caught thatt fish with my lure. It’s often better to be lucky than good!!!!! Lol

Tight line is the key. Never give them slack, the only time I do is when they get caught on structure or weeds and I let them swim out of it then take up any slack immediately. I don’t do this often with the barb, but have a few times just to try it. Getting the barb out without hurting the fish is usually not a problem if you know the techniques.

I am a floro user for my plastics but use mono to hone in my concentration and hook setting. I have to watch the line, and really take up all the slack, and then hammer the hook set with mono. It just fine tunes the whole process. It so much easier with floro or braid. I can really feel the difference between the three lines.

I once caught a 26” bass while bank fishing an interstate cloverleaf pond, reached for my phone and it would not except anymore photos. Something about the cloud storage available. Within a few days I had a new Apple 10. But I wished I had a pic of that big old girl! She was a fatty too.

Great vid Glen. I fish at least 5 days a week from the shore and one day in the boat. I do exactly what you said with regards to the rod, reel, line. and sometimes the bait. The big difference is that my lakes are surrounded with weed fields, like hydrilla, and pads. I usually have to retrieve through at least 20 yards of thick weeds after the big drop-off. It makes Texas rigged plastics the logical choice. Floro line really helps since we have limestone walls that just destroys braid. The floro also helps with the fall of the bait using light weights. I often use a 1/32 because heavier weight get caught up more on the jagged rock ledges. These are all man made lakes much like a quarry in other parts of the country. Besides creature baits, I also use U-Vibes, Zoom Super flukes, and of course senkos. Great vid as always, we are for the most part in total agreement with our bank fishing techniques, the big difference is I have to watch for snakes, and the occasional gator in the grass, they are everywhere!

In Florida they have been caught up to 9 pounds. In South American a different variety can go 24 pounds. These were released by the state to control other exotics that were taking over like Oscars. Tests were done by the state to test their effect on black bass before release. What a fun catch. Cold weather cull the population every few years. They can not survive above the Palm Beaches because of this.

This spring the Florida peacock fishing has been hot. Many are catching them on hard jerkbaits, and other top water baits fished fast. I have been catch with plastics baits as long as the retrieve is an erotic movement and fished fast. The Zoom Super Fluke is especially good. They are the pitbulls of the freshwater world, with long runs aerobatic jumps, and reversal of direction with more jumps. You will know immediately it’s not a black bass taking your bait. They are so much fun when hooked up, and they don't stop when you lip them. There is nothing I would rather catch then a big Peacock!

Glen you are a class act in everything you do!

Each to their own, and enjoy the experience regardless of what you choose. I personally would never pay to fish a glorified aquarium private lake. There is just too many good quality natural lakes to fish, and lucky for me many are around where I live.

My house is surrounded by a bunch of lakes of about that size. I bank fish these waters often and stay away from heavily pressured areas. I will go to the areas with the heaviest cover and down size baits like senkos, centipedes, trick worms, and flukes. I fish them slow, and feel for grass clumps, rocks along the bottom. I always pause when I feel them and then slow pull them out. Bass will often hit while paused. I also look for areas with current, like culvert pipes. I fish the calm waters on either side, or throw in the current on slack line, let the current move the bait. These techniques produce on a regular basis. the bait doesn’t need to be big to catch big fish.

If you get a length and girth and use the charts pretty good. If I just eyeball many times heavy.

Sunday 4/2/23, First light - 11:00 Temp 86* W/T 77* Light wind Partly cloudy Went out with a friend for some relaxation. First light we arrived with a heavy fog. Ran a mile and shut down to fish. Fishing was extremely slow for both of us. We started with top water, frogs, and speed worms, NADA! We shifted to stick worms, Texas rigged and wacky, them moved to swim jigs fished slow. We did have some light bites but they didn;t take the bait. Most likely small exotics. Finally after two hours a nice two pound bass. Dave caught an Oscar, and around 11:00 I hooked into another 1.5 bass. I killer slow day for us. and much different from several weeks ago. Thanks for reading, and good luck out there.

An easy solution is to just don’t use the shoreline in the pick. Quick an easy, I do this all the time.

Muddy water, I slow down, fish with dark colors, use scent on my plastics and jigs, and rattles on jigs. If that doesn’t help I go home and have a beer!

Good job keep experimenting. But after 50 years of bass fishing, as soon as you think you figured it out, they make you look silly! Just keep learning, it never stops, and no two days are ever exactly the same. It keeps it interesting!

I am a boat owner and have been for over 40 years. I also have been a backseater in others boats. Sometimes during challenging weather conditions it is easier as the back seater. All you have to do is concentrate on high value targets. The front guy has all the control to concentrate on, while picking targets. Also if the back seater wants to fish slow while the front guy keeps moving, just keep letting out line while he moves. There is a plus and minus for both positions. Just a different mind set.

A friend of mine just had a 150 day out there. I don’t stay out there long enough for that four hours and I’m done.

the reason I remember it so well was I just fished the Marsh the week before with Bruce Campbell who lives right there. He had a 10+, and I had an 8+. What a wonderful fishery!

Since posting my last response to this question a week ago, I became the guy in need of help Sunday. I checked my batteries before the trip and all was good. We fished for 4 hours, and upon time to leave all I got from the motor was a chick. Come to find out the battery was dead, zero load. We were almost alone on the water and lucky we found a guy who towed us back to the ramp. He saved us another hour on the water, with just the T/M! He would not take money but told me to pay it forward. Thank you sir!!!!!!!!!!!!

I remember that Stick Marsh catch!!!!! I remember that Stick Marsh catch when it happened!!!!!!!

I have been going BPS for over twenty years. We are lucky because we have one of their biggest stores in the country in Fort Lauderdale. It is well stocked, clean, and a few very knowledgeable employees, that have been there a long time. I will sometime go just to troll the fishing department, without buying. I love being able to touch something before I buy it. It would be a real crime if they went the way of Sears just because everyone wanted to save a buck on a bag of baits.

No, but I find it comparable to watching paint dry. Everyone do your thing whatever it is, it’s just not for me. The fun is casting to targets, adjusting to wind, and finding a cadence that the bass want that day, that hour. It’s like a game of darts, with a card game thrown in. I love what I do! Dwight, your the man!!!!!!