Had a chance for some fishing last evening. Found a great spot, or so we thought. It had all the makings of perfect bass habitat. 3'-6' depth, weedlines, structure, mats, lillypads, the works. A storm front had just passed about 45-60 minutes prior. It was a "finger" off the main lake body and it was pretty sheltered by forest etc. You could see it wasn't very well visited by non-fishermen. It looked like something you'd see on the beloved TV bass fishing shows. We could see them feeding on the surface as the sunset drew closer, and it got our blood pressure up when the big ones would explode on something a ways off.
Didn't seem to matter though what we threw at them, topwater, stickbaits, chuggers, plastics, shallow cranks, med' cranks, spinnerbaits, buzzbaits, even live bait (minnows and beemoths), they wouldn't take any of it. Tried multiple colors, varying retrieves, alternated depths, etc. Everything I know to do. But.....nothing. Not even a slight tap.
Really frusturating, we had pretty much ideal conditions and got skunked. I've had my share of days where they proved me wrong, but this seemed like such ideal conditions it makes me think we, ourselves, had something to do with our luck running dry.
Any ideas?
