Dammitjim

So i finally broke my mistake luck streak and what did it was 1/4oz buzz bait. I seriously tried texas rigged soft plastics but i can get nothing to hit em no matter color or size. So i ordered a 4 pack of 1/4 oz buzz baits off ebay for like 10 bones and have been slaying em all the sudden. These buzz baits are made from the parts you can buy all over the internet. IMHO by the time you add on shipping,(5 bucks for 100 hollow metal beads?), it becomes expensive and maybe just as expensive as buying a 3-5 lure. I think i can do better.... I think i can seriously make a new design or two using all hand crafted parts by me in my spare time as a hobby. I tend to lose my buzzbaits alot. I lost 4 this past week during 2 trips to stupidy really. Like the spinning reel flipping back during casting and the line snaps or the knot coming undone...just all kinds of bad luck issues and noob mistakes really. Anyway i want to avoid paying $40 for a mold to cast lead. It looks like they are using alum or steel for the molds being sold. I am wonding if there is an alternative material to make mold out of for casting lead? Maybe some type of clay or high temp material thats i can pick up on the cheap and will survive many castings? thanks

I have lost 2 hula poppers so far because for some reason the line snaps at the end of my cast. Most of the time it snaps at the reel and i am able to get my bait back. I am not sure why this is happening. Anyway i have been using top water baits starting at dusk. I use hula poppers, jitter bugs and booyah buzz baits at night. They are not yielding anything for me. However last night using a buzz bait i watched a bass chase it all the way to shore darting around like mad....but he never hit it.

I will try worms. When is it a good time of year to switch back to hard baits?

Hey all My woman and i have fished live bait until this summer when i picked up a cheap blaze shallow crankbait at a gas station on the way to the lake. She caught nothing but small bluegill that day and i landed 5 bass with 2 getting away off the blaze crank. That was mid may and until the end of may, bass fishing was consistant and good. From then to today i have been bass fishing in the same lake, and have had not even a strike at my hard baits. I have tried EVERYTHING except plastic worms. Crankbait (several types, sizes and depths), booyah buzz baits (black and chartruse), hula poppers, poppers, chatter bait, spinners and jitterbugs....nothing. I even bought a baitcaster combo. It is the entry level shakesphere alpha red. I am getting good at casting it but i backlash at least 6 times a night lol. I did catch a 5 lb drum fish out of tygart creek in KY off of a crack bait a few weeks back. I have no clue what i am doing wrong. I have even tried varying my retrieves and letting the floaters soak. In my main spot a beaver moved in and changed the entire bottom of the lake in that area. Still i see fisherman catching bass there. I have been in every corner of that dang lake with no luck. I have also spent many hours on goggle researching this....nothing is helping. I fish at turkey creek lake in shawnee state park in southern ohio. Any help/tips would be greatly appeciated. Thanks