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From what I'm hearing I'm thinking we should have fished the deeper areas around current with slower finesse style baits. This gives me a starting place, thanks everyone.

I've recently been super bummed about the lack of success I've had river fishing here in AZ. water temp is 87 and I've only been able to get em near strong running current and they are all dinks about .75lb or 1 pound, fishing the seams of the current. I've flipped, I've thrown in to the "super bassy" areas on the bank with laydowns/overhanging trees using flukes, beaver baits, senko's, and I know i'm covering the water correctly, I'm just only finding fish in those strong current areas. In the spring and into early summer I was having 12+ fish days with most fishing going 1.5 to 2 pounds. Anyone know what I can do differently to increase my catch rates?

Good replies guys. thanks I'll try these suggestions

There's a local pond I night fish all the time and I can never got em on top water although I hear them busting on fly's all over the lake. any advice on what I should throw? I've mainly thrown frogs.

Thats what was strange. we were mainly fishing backs of coves where there was no current. that's where all the fish were caught but we could only get 2 total. this was an underpressured area of the river, so why didn't we get more bites, what could we have done to improve our catch rates?

water clarity is sill the same, although the water had come up at least 1ft and had flooded up into the banks making many areas unreachable to fish due to the heavy brush preventing access. current was almost stagnant like the prior visit. thanks for the questions.

There's a stretch of this river my dad and I have fished for years and in the spawn we usually average around 12 fish combined per day. just 2 weeks prior we caught close to that number, fishing the same waters. That was on the tail end of a warm front where temps were up into the low to mid 80's for 3 days in a row. The river has coves with flats that contain a mix of gravel/rock bottom, mud, reeds, lay-downs and also these small lilly pads which usually contain gravel bottoms. I tried flipping these lilly pads w/a creature bait and a 6" lizard w/o luck, I also fished this war eagle spinnerbait in and around the reeds and pads and managed to get one. My only other fish was on a black senko flipped into some trees and the bite came as I jerked the bait out towards me. We focused mostly on backs of these coves which were shallower and had more of the vegetation/structure we thought the bass would be on during the spawn. As you can see from the pic of the bass I caught on the spinnerbait the tail is red and split so I'm guessing we aren't pre-spawn but spawn right now. I also noticed some bass fry in the shallows. We found another angler there who said he had blanked, so something was definitely off in those waters today. Any ideas what may have happened or why fishing had changed so drastically and what I could have done to put more fish into the boat? We obviously didn't use the right tactics when we were out fishing. I thought with being in the spawn we would be catching fish left and right. Prior Weeks Weather: mid 50's lows, low 70's high. There was a cold front that blew through just last Wednesday 3/18 and brought temps to low 40's as low, and low 60's as high. this also brought some rain. Weather: low 48 high 72. light occiasional wind, sunny Surface Water Temps: Started 64 7:30am ended 69 at 1:30pm Water Clarity: 6-8" in most places, especially backs of coves. upto 10" in main river Vegetation:Reeds, small lilly pads Structure: laydowns, rocks, overhanging trees Total Fish: 1 3lber and 1 1.5lber Fish Caught on: War Eagle 1/2oz Gold Head w/Green Chartreuse Skirt Tandem Gold #5 Colorado w/ #2 or 3 Red Kicker Blade w/Strike King Pearl White and Black Big Bite Baits Senko 5" w/#2 gold colorado blade rigged texas w/4o Red EWG Hook

Yesterday 10/12/2019 was really a stumper for my Dad and me. We were fishing a stretch of a river which we have caught over 20 in a morning on during the spring. It had rose about 1-2ft. the water clarity was 6-12", water temp was 75-77. We threw the entire tackle box at em but couldn't get one bite. any ideas what the fish may have been doing? is the fall transition lock jawing them? I always thought fall was good fishing.

I was looking for a whopper plopper topic. I've been throwing the loon in 130 during the night with average results. My biggest issue is short strikes. the other night I caught 1 2lber but had 8-10 strikes which were all misses. Any suggestions on modifying or working the lure in a way to prevent more short strikes? the hardest part with top water at night is you can see so you can tell if they have sucked in the lure to set the hook.

Thanks everyone. I've been looking for a good "Resource" to help and be helped with advice, and thats very active. I think I've found it.

I'll be fishing it in river colored water. it's probably 2 foot visibility. Is that water too stained for this color? I had a hard time deciding on a color, they have a ton.

I just bought some zoom trick worms in watermelon magic on amazon and am curious what everyones experiences are fishing these along with advice on: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005Z7S28K/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1&psc=1 1. Where to fish them 2. How to Fish them 3. How to rig them 4. Did I choose a productive color

They only see the underbelly so make the sillouette very string and visible. I love fishing top water at night on a calm lake under a full moon, because the full moon casts a very visible sillouette. My goto top waters are these three in all top water situations 1. Sammy or Spook - for night use black 2. Night Fishing - Black Buzz Bait - War Head 3. Rico popper