Suggest A Strategy For Saturday

[Josh Smith]

Hi Folks,

 

Target is a drainage lake, very fertile with plenty of grass and other cover.  It's the one I've been concentrating solely on.

 

Currently, there's a cold front blowing through.  Cold rain showers.

 

Tomorrow is a high of 64 and partly cloudy.

 

My barometers are standing at 30.2 and have been since this afternoon. 

 

The water should be sightly colder, but still above air temp.  Runoff will be providing nutrients, but there are no shad, just fry and sunfish.

 

Winds will probably stay out of the NW.

 

Lake is about 20' deep at its deepest.  I'll be fishing from shore. 

 

There are steep drop-offs about five feet out from shore.

 

I'm thinking slow cranking on a shallow diving crankbait or even slowly fishing a jerkbait to start.

 

I don't have much experience with fishing these conditions, though, and welcome suggestions.  I assume the bass will be suspended about 2-5ft.  Edited:  2-5ft holding to cover in the form of grass and weeds, mainly, and I propose moving the crankbaits and jerkbaits slowly through these.

 

The dam overflow will be creating a slight current to from south to north if we get enough rain, and I'm assuming we will.

 

Thoughts?

 

Thank you,

 

Josh

[jebar01]

Fishing from shore try to fish a point where you might try and throw your lure vertically along the shoreline.If there is vegatation especially throw a frog on braided line.  Jim

[aavery2]

Spend a few minutes throwing a top water bait of some type first thing.

[Catch and Grease]

Lipless crankbaits!

[einscodek]

Clouds mean you cant depend on the sun to warm the waters up any

Its obviously gonna be a lil slow

maybe a soft jerkbait finessed

[Mike L]

With the fish suspended 3 to 5ft I agree that you should be throwing a sq bill but after you give up, or after the top water bite slows.

As the day progresses Id try a swim bait like a skinny dipper or big ez, or a spinner bait over the grass and letting it fall in any holes. Starting shallow and working it out deeper if you can find a spot on shore to effectively cover it.

Mike

[ClackerBuzz]

no need to reinvent the wheel.  a spinnerbait allows you to work any part of the water column and is relatively snag free from shore.  and a jig if they aren't chasing reaction.  desperate times call for desperate measures so of course then a senko. if i can't get them with those 3 all bets are off and it's junk fishing time.

 

and I'd take 2 rods.. and change locations before changing lures.

[OntarioFishingGuy]

Try fishing a popper slowly. if they are not coming up for it, do the same with a jerkbait. If neither of those work, go Senko.

[Josh Smith]

Thanks folks. 

 

I didn't get to go today (family comes first, and my 6-year-old boy needed to come to an understanding today on how to treat his mother.)

 

The aim is to go tomorrow, now.  Should be the same conditions. 

 

I have a question for you all: I have been playing with rigging Colorado and Indiana leaves (interchangeably) to swim jigs, not so much for flash but for low-level vibration.  This is in conjunction with a trailer, usually a swimming minnow or craw chunk, and with or without rattle chamber.

 

Is there any reason this shouldn't work?  I've been thinking, too, about staining the leaves black so less flash occurs but noise is still present.

 

Thank you,

 

Josh

[bassfactor]

I'd start with a subtle swimbait if that doesn't produce I would toss a lipless crankbait!

[einscodek]

I went out on that post frontal over the weekend and caught four on spinnerbait.. nothing over 15" but they wanted spinners