Rapala shadow rap shad

[basser27]

Not sure if anyone else does it but I’ve been using the rapala shadow rap Shad as a wake bait reeled extremely slow and have been doing great with it

[Jcj90]

@PhishLI gave me this tip. I tried it the other night no takers. Couldn’t really get it to wake it would sit just below the surface 

[Vilas15]

  On 5/23/2023 at 3:56 PM, Jcj90 said:

@PhishLI gave me this tip. I tried it the other night no takers. Couldn’t really get it to wake it would sit just below the surface 

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Reel slower, and then maybe a little slower than that until it works. Try raising your rod tip way up to get the line angle pulling up on the nose to fight the lip trying to dive.

[Jcj90]

  On 5/23/2023 at 4:13 PM, Vilas15 said:

Reel slower, and then maybe a little slower than that until it works. Try raising your rod tip way up to get the line angle pulling up on the nose to fight the lip trying to dive.

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I got it to the surface but wouldn’t wobble. 

[PhishLI]

  On 5/23/2023 at 5:05 PM, Jcj90 said:

I got it to the surface but wouldn’t wobble. 

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That's OK. The like-sized bait fish active over the weed tops don't wobble either. They suspend within inches of the surface, dart a few inches or a foot, then pause. If you're getting pestered by mosquitoes and gnats with very little wind blowing, you'll usually see these minnows popping them on the surface. Sometimes when they pause, and sometimes when they dart, and sometimes when they're popping, a bass waiting in ambush blasts them. Ever hear or see a tail-slap killshot? That's often a bass blowing up on small minnow sized bait. The SRS is a slow floater. It can be made to mimic minnows behaving this way and you can control that by following @Vilas15 and @basser27's instructions. It's a real patience game to be sure, but if you can put yourself where the bait is and where active feeders are present and keyed in on them, you'll probably get some. You need to be there when though, or nothing will happen for you. It's easy to fish dead water if you're not marking subtle signs, and what was dead water an hour earlier might be the juice an hour later if groups of predators push bait into that zone.