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Hit power button to bring up the menu, then select settings, goto chart settings, then turn on Range Rings.

I was just there for the 4th of July week vacation, first time to Lake Anna, we rented a house for the week. Turns out it was on the "hot" side which is also the "private" part of the lake. I must say, those living on the private part of the lake have it made in the shade, hardly any boat traffic compared to what the public lake experiences, and fishing was pretty decent probably due to the greatly reduced fishing pressure on that part of the lake. The down side was the water temperature was insane, 90+ degree water temp, sometimes reaching 95+. It was a hot week air-temp wise and the bass still felt warm to the touch when taking them out of the water. Amazingly, the bass fishing was still pretty good even with the water so hot. I caught multiple 1 to 3 pound bass in 2-3 foot of water near boat docks. The last one we caught in this weight class really struggled to recover after being caught, we thought the fish was going to die. We jumped in the water and swam with the bass to keep water going through the gills and help it along, it finally swam off slowly heading for deeper water, so I think it made it. Still, the water temps... good lord I've never seen anything like it! I don't know how the hot side isn't infested with more ecoli and covered in algae with water temps staying that hot all summer long! Seems water that hot would cause a lot more problems than it seems to.

Short answer, you can get bit bouncing them off things, or you can get bit just swimming it in open water, just depends on where the fish are and what they want. At my local late in the summer the bass are in open water hanging out under shad balls, so swimming any crank bait at the correct depth can elicit strikes. Not far from that lake is a river that is just full of wood laydowns. I pull Lucky Strike RC 1.5 crankbaits over those logs and the bass just love it! And it's a great way to fish you often see the strike as the crankbait comes over a log. Bouncing a squarebill of rip-rap is another great technique, bass love it. So it all depends and you don't always HAVE to be digging bottom or banging cover, but sometimes that's the right thing to do, and sometimes the right thing is in deep water just swimming it along not hitting anything. For banging cover can't beat the Lucky Craft RC 1.5, I don't think anyone has topped it, if they have please let me know

Well, there are a lot of things to consider, but if it's the right time of the year for top-water in your area then a black jitterbug is hard to beat.

I agree with the Spiderwire votes. I've tried a lot of cheap sunglasses (pretty much every brand available) and Spiderwire's are the best of the bunch. I tried the Strike King S11 glasses and weren't thrilled with them, they weren't any better than $20 glasses. You can get Spiderwire glasses at Wal-Mart.

Looking to get some shakey heads, mainly for 6" zoom lizards. Any recommendations of type and size?

I do a lot of low-light and night fishing. I'm looking for a headlamp that doesn't use a cycle switch. I have a headlamp that cycles between red light, low white, high light, narrow beam, wide beam, etc. It's annoying if I just want to turn the red light on and off to have to cycle through all settings. Correspondingly, if I want to just turn on and off the low white light, I have to cycle through all settings each time I turn it on and off. Are there any lights that don't use a cycle switch?

Looking for something similar to the Zoom Mag Finesse Worm, except floating so it sticks up. The primary thing is I want it big and thick, not skinny like most shakey head finesse worms. Any ideas?

Bought a couple can't wait to try them out.

Check out the old schoolers making the top ten this weekend! Grigsby and Clunn. Way to go, I always pull for them since they have the guts to still compete even though they don't really have to make a living doing so.

I've always been intrigued. Do you consider them to be at all dangerous? Also, all the lakes and ponds around here have a mud bottom which makes the idea of walking around and such....gross.

Class act, I like Alton a lot.

Also, before heading out take careful note of the wind. If it will be blowing, find a ramp that will shelter you from the direction the wind blows. I have a ramp 5 minutes from my house but will drive 40 minutes to a ramp sheltered from the wind if it is expected to blow to any appreciable degree.

Check out the latest issue of Bassmaster Magazine, there is an entire article dedicated to this very topic!