tmd17

Nice to see another west metro MN guy. What lakes have you been hitting up around here?

I'll try this. I have a pack of super flukes but havent totally mastered fishing with them yet. I think I need to add a fluoro leader with a swivel. My fluke always spins in the water when I slowly retrieve towards the surface. Yeah once my senkos get ripped up I'll probably switch to something a little cheaper. Heard that they are just as effective Yeah I have some nice polarized oakleys. You must be fishing in some extremely clear shallow water if you can see em.

I've been out twice in the early morning and twice in the early evening so far this year. I'm gonna stick to shallows for now until the water starts warming up I think. Good plan? Watermelon/black flake, green pumpkin/black flake, watermelon and white laminate, blue pearl and silver flake. What area of the country? I think my problem is what the first poster suggested. I'm fishing where I think the fish are, not where they actually are haha. Thanks for the tip! I'll stick with it. Another person I know has been getting shut out so far this year in MN where he usually kills the bass. Maybe they are just being finicky up here right now

Yeah that makes sense now that I think of it. Water temp was only in the upper 40s in early may. I'll keep hitting up the shallows for the time being. Thanks for the advice

Picked up a few different colors of 4" and 5" senkos a week or so ago and seriously cannot get anything to bite on them. I've tried wacky rig with O-rings, weightless texas rig, drop shot texas rig. Hell, I dont know what I'm doing wrong? Only thing I can think of is that I'm using braided line on my baitcaster. Should I throw on a fluoro leader? Using 3/0 EWG hooks, which doesnt really matter I'm not even getting hits. The lake I fish is great for bass. Water temp is 68, clarity around 4ft. I've tried shallows with weed cover, a couple different points with drop offs 5-20ft, natural structures (overhanging trees, logs) dock skipping, humps, drop shots through milfoil, early in the AM and late afternoon/early evening.... The only fish I catch are in shallows with top water hula poppers. I dont think I'm fishing the senkos wrong, just throwing em and letting them sink with a controlled slack line and raising the rod tip to 12oclock and reeling in the slack and letting it sink again. Any idea what my problem is here? I'm just at a loss for words because everybody swears by senkos. Thanks guys