Anantha Patel

From what I can feel, there is a bit of structure on the bottom as TINY pockets of weeds. The bottom is muddy with a bit of gravel mixed in. They are small and isolated. I heard that jigs work well on open bottom. However, there are points, holes in the bottom, dropoffs.

I have this lake nearly that is almost devoid of vegetation, yet has no rocks/structure. Only reeds to the side. I throw search baits such as spinnerbaits and cranks, but what soft plastic should I use?

Yeah. Apparently 1Rod1ReelFishing is going to it.

My biggest question is the retrieve. Jerk it like a fluke? Jerk it to the surface after it sinks, and let fall? Small bumps along the bottom?

I am a big fan of catching a lot of fish. Recently, I have noticed that my friends were outfishing me by a bit. All of them were fishing weightless trick worms or Roboworms (basically 6" or 7" straight tailed worms), texas rig, while often catching giants (for Maryland, that is), while I was using a texas rig, weighted, and I just catch dinks. Do you guys think the weightless is more productive? I find that a horiztional fall is what often gets the fish to bite, and it's the case with the weightless texas rig.

I was recently on the instagram of a Maryland bass fisherman, and I found out about this tournament (here's the website page from the nonprofit group holding it). It's a bank bass fishing tournament held at Triadlephia Reservoir on July 24th, from 4:00-7:45 PM at the Greenbridge Recreation Area, where I often fish. It's apparently held by a youth fisheries conservationist group that also promotes fishing called the "Youth Fisheries Sciences", and the admission fee is $5, which goes to charity. Interesting event. They even got the WSSC (which owns Triadelphia) to waive the $6 single-day watershed use permit for the participants. Anyone here going to this tourney? What do you think about it?

Thanks for the reply. I went back and threw a colorado bladed black and blue spinnerbait and caught a dink. No other bites on my other colorado spinner. Jig didn't catch anything, neither did the rattlin' square bill. Then I threw in my popper, a Yo-Zuri 3db, without luck. Threw in a my 7" straight tailed worm and got a bite after fishing it. I'm beginning to think that I need a finesse bait for muddy water, something the fish can feel, but isn't too disruptive... Should I throw my Roboworm Zipper, texas rigged, in a dark color? I think the ribbing should give a good amount of feel, and I'll throw on a dash of Smelly Jelly Stick Liquid. The pic is from Tackwarehouse.

Thanks for the reply. I have already fished some 4" worms, bluegill color, on a drop shot, and slowly swam and jigged some 2" grubs, bluegill colored. I haven't got any bites. I think the pond water is just too muddy for the bass to see the finesse bait. It constantly is.

There's a pond really close to my house with real hawgs (I've seen them). My friend and I fish there. I use my texas rigged worm (7" Roboworm Straight Tail, Warmouth color), while he throws his seances and stickos, blue and black. These are our old standbys; the fish in this pond aren't eager to bite anything, so we use our proven fish catchers. We fish in the pond quite often. He sometimes overfish me, I sometimes overfish him. Can anyone recommend me the best lure to use in this very odd pond? It's really dirty, muddy. It is like 1 acre in sizeThere are a bunch of carp in there, eating any vegetation and stirring up the bottom. No cover or structure to be seen or felt hopping my worm along the bottom, except for the occasional weed either. The pond is in the middle of a well-manicured grass field, no overhanging trees. Forage is bluegill. Again, there are very, very few weeds in there. It's a really mystery to me why there are some hawgs. Not many frogs. Only structure I can see is a patch of cattails on the side. Very odd pond for the big fish.

I recently have acquired some Roboworm products, and I also have some Creme products, such as the Creme Scoundrel. Some soft plastics aren't packaged in re-closable bags, and I feel that putting them in one of my pocket tackle boxes will bend or otherwise deform the plastics (I like to fish light, and use a big fanny pack to store my tackle when fishing.) Can I put my plastics in plastic bags, like the zip-loc bags from the grocery stores?

DO you think that the snell knot is the best knot for a weighted texas rig? I have found my hook ups to be better than with a palomar. I read somewhere that the hook on a snell knot enters the mouth perpendicularly, which makes hooking better.

A friend recently gave me a pack of 6" Roboworm Original Shakin' Zippers. They look interesting, and I like the previous Roboworm items I've purchased. Currently, my favorite soft plastic worm is the Berkley Rib Snake, but these look really interesting. Anyone have any experiences with these? I'm planning on rigging them on 3/0 round bends, BTW.

Thanks. Do you think that hook size really matters too much when fishing thin soft plastic worms (Eg., in this case, using a #1 or 1/0 offset round bend vs a 2/0 offset round bend.)

Yesterday, I was fishing with a 6" finesse worm, a 6" Roboworm in fact, texas rigged with a 1/0 EWG and a 3/16th bullet weight. I had caught a bunch of fish, but then I missed like 3 fosj. I wonder if it is because the hook is too small? My hooksets weren't really hard, though. Should I get bigger hooks, or is 1/0 EWG fine? Thanks.

I recently fished a fluke around down in the Potomac as a noisy topwater, and hooked a snakehead, a pickerel, and a bowfin, along with some bass. The action of a fluke really seems to get some other species; I even caught some bullhead catfishes on them in the past. Do you guys have good experiences with them as multi species lures in the past? Thanks.