baldbassguy33

Wow. So much great info, thank you guys. Where I had gone wrong was fishing it on a slack line. I was fishing like a weightless senko and wasn't keeping tension between my rod and the hook.

New to drop shotting and had a question I'm hoping someone can answer for me. Why flourocarbon for the line? If the idea is to suspend the bait off the bottom, wouldn't mono make more sense? Everything on the rig sinks. Wouldn't it all just pile up on the bottom?

Thanks for all the ideas, guys. I'm heading out there again tonight with my dad and I'll give these all a shot and see what I come up with.

I took a little hike over the weekend and happened upon this beautiful little lake. Well, more of a glorified pond really. About 8 acres or so. Absolutely crystal clear water but the entire thing was covered with this really, really thick green grass/moss stuff. It started at the banks and went the entire way across. There were plenty of points, low hanging trees, submerged brush and logs and it looked to be a prime place to fish. So. How would you approach it?

We're actually staying at a place just below the dam. Doing some trout fishing for sure but was going to rent a boat for the day on saturday and hit the lake just above the dam at lakeview and see what we could find. Thank you for all the tips, I really appreciate it.

I'm from down in Imperial as well. I hit up all of the local ponds but mainly focus on Creve Couer/Mallard lake. It's right around the corner from my work so I can go get my line wet for an hour during lunch.

I'm taking the family down to Bull Shoals here at the end of August and I need some advice. I know this particular lake can be feast or famine when it comes to the bass bite and I'd like to go as prepared as possible. What do you all throw this time of the year? What spots do you hit? Are there any particular colors that work better for you than others?

I would have to go with the man himself, Glenn May. Just seems like a really down to earth guy and a wealth of information. I've personally learned a ton from him and his videos.

I actually have the opposite problem. My dog is very much an inside dog and when I took him with me to the pond over the weekend, he just didn't know what to make of me whipping around a big stick and throwing things in the water. poor little guy sat between my legs the entire time.

I've had this happen in the past as well and something that really helped me was talking to some of the regulars and 'old timers' that I would meet while out on the water. There is one park lake close to me that I had been visiting for months and have NEVER been able to even get a bite at. I'd tried everthing. Jigs, weightless senkos, topwaters, cranks, jigs. Nothin. Not even a nibble. I met a guy while fishing one time and he told me that the secret was the color red. The fish wouldn't bite anything that was any other color. He told me to slow reel a red senko across the bottom and it would drive the fish nuts. Sure enough, went and got some red senkos and caught my personal best on the second cast. Now that I know what the fish like, I've never left without landing something.