Fishing slow at Tepic Nayarit

[king fisher]

I fished two days dawn to dusk.  First day I mostly pounded the banks.  Lots of small bass around a pound or so.  I was excited to try a chaterbait for the first time, but not luck.  As usual for me, spinnerbaits and crankbaits caught the most bass.

     Next day I found a submerged tree in 20 feet of water, with a large bait ball above it.  I marked larger fish in the branches, I assumed were bass.  The afternoon winds had not picked up yet so I was able to fish many different baits including my new A Rig.  No luck.  I placed a marker buoy and left planning to come back later.  A couple hours later the wind was blowing over 20 MPH and I decided to throw a crankbait as I drifted by the buoy.  I made four drifts for four fish.  Two 4.5 pounds, two over 3 pounds.  Wind then picked up to 30MPH forcing me to fish a sheltered spot the remainder of the day catching only small bass.

      Fishing was slow, and no big fish, but I was happy to find fish with my electronics, and catch some.  The four pounders were long and very thin.  I'm confident that I will be able to fish this same spot later in the year for more and fatter fish.  No luck on the A rig.  Another new lure I bought somehow thinking it would be magical and make up for lack of knowledge, angling skill, or both.  I will try it again with less expectations.  I did catch a bass on a Jack Hammer for the first time.  The bait was bigger than the bass but it was a bass.  I guess the bass didn't realize the chaterbait was $15 and my H2O square bill was $4 because they liked the square bill.  The log I snagged definitely understood the dollar value between the two. 

[A-Jay]

Nicely Done ~

Just to offer a bit of A-Rig support,

I fished 5 or 6 different A-Rings for two full seasons locally before I even got a bump.

I was pretty excited to get my first strike but lost the bass, a 2 lb brown one. 

But I kept at it.

Changed up my approach several times before I 'figured it out'.

That next season I caught several plus size bass doing something totally different

than 'I thought" in need to do.

Now, I'm mostly addicted to throwing it. 

My deal will never be anything you could use there but I just wanted to say,

hang in there, There's Hope.

A-Jay

[king fisher]

4 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Nicely Done ~

Just to offer a bit of A-Rig support,

I fished 5 or 6 different A-Rings for two full seasons locally before I even got a bump.

I was pretty excited to get my first strike but lost the bass, a 2 lb brown one. 

But I kept at it.

Changed up my approach several times before I 'figured it out'.

That next season I caught several plus size bass doing something totally different

than 'I thought" in need to do.

Now, I'm mostly addicted to throwing it. 

My deal will never be anything you could use there but I just wanted to say,

hang in there, There's Hope.

A-Jay

I haven't given up on the A rig yet.  I will say snagging an abandoned gill net with one made me do the math and consider the logic of fishing with such an expensive lure in my waters.  I was able to break it free from the net, so I'm positive I will get it back if it snags again ( bait monkey logic).  I plan on using it the next time I see bass busting bait in the open water away from all snags.  I wont be throwing it near wood in 30 knot winds any more.  At the time, I was thinking they should not only be illegal in some tournaments, but banned in all 50 states, and many foreign countries.