Andy Fishes

I'm not huge on swim baits for SM but if your worried some of them are to big start small and work your way up. I'm sure color is going to depend on a lot of variables such as time of year, water clarity and etc. Most the swim baits I do buy are of natural forage colors such as shad, perch, bluegill and such so if I do throw them I throw when they're actively feeding on those items. I'd say 4 inches would be a good starting point but they do sell some the size of big crappie minnows and obviously much larger. Besides swimbaits if all your throwing is plastics I would seriously consider crankbaits smallies love em'.

I don't live in your area but when I start my fishing search of new locations I like to start with google earth. You can find nearby water and they usually have little icons that give you the name of the lakes, rivers, parks and etc. You can take the information from those little icons and research them on google. Often you can also pick out structure points and key features of a body of water with google earth. But if nothing else if these tips don't give you any leads and you don't get any reply's on here talk to other fisherman at the dock or fishing the banks who have knowledge of the lake and always watch where the other fisherman tend to flock to. It has also always helped me to find topographical maps of the body of water also.

Hi Joe, I just joined also. Good to hear you made it back to the best sport/hobby in the entire world

Go to bait? Tubes, flukes, and grubs. Other baits I like are jerks, wacky rigs, and shad wraps. If you want proof tubes produce I invite everyone to check out some of the fish they have produced and will continue to produce. Thanks ahead of time for stopping by!