More Water

[PondBoss]

Well I'm not sure it's happening to everyone but here in Oklahoma we've been getting hammered with rain the last few days.  With the water rising and essentially spreading out the fish the bite has seemed to go cold.  When I get bites nothing sticks.  I was fishing the other day with a buddy and had my spinner bait knocked out of the water several times and had fish come out of the water after it as well.  No Dice!  >  We tried plastic worms no takers not even a bump, it seemed they would only hit a fast moving spinner bait just barely under the surface.  What do I need to do to make these fish hang on when they are smashing the bait?  Does this have anything to do with the rising of the water and the fact that what once had some visibility is now as dark as night?  Is it possible the fish are swinging and missing?  If so I sure wouldn't thing they would miss so many times.  Any help would be great.

[marlboroman]

I have this happen to me on hot summer days when a storm is coming or right after.. I add a trailer hook and it seems to work well... You could also try to slow down just a tad, not so much they quit busting it, just enough to maybe get the hook in.

[PondBoss]

I've tried adding the trailer hooks.  Again No Dice!  As I said in a previous post it's like they are biting with their mouths closed.  Maybe they are just hitting the blades.  The next thing I will have to try is putting the trailer hook on upside down.  That may take away the whole weedless idea but may get more fish on the bank.  The strange thing is it seems like the presentation is what they want.  Something super fast running through their territory.  When you get a hit you can cast several times in a row at the same spot and get popped just nothing sticks.  It sure is kewl to see the V swimming for your bait it just sucks when they crush it and nothing happens.

[T-rig]

Try a sub-surface lure like the megabass anthrax! Move it fast like you would a spinnerbait over the same spots.

[BD]

NewMatt, fishing out of Collinsville area here. Sunday afternoon/night myself and a friend went over to a local pond. Caught 20+ biggest weighed 2.12. I was swimming a jig on the flats. Throw out and reel in rod tip kind of high. The jig trailers I use are paca craws in junebug, crawfish colors.

The location might matter more than you think. Go fish IN the wind. (i.e. southern winds blowing into the NW banks.....go fish the NW side casting into the wind...esp. if there is a flat nearby!) The fish are pretty shallow right now and will be unless it snows lol.

[PondBoss]

I'll try that swimming a jig idea and see what happens.  The weather has kinda cleared up a bit wind wise anyways and the rain has stopped for a while think I'll try it down at the lake for a bit.  Wish me luck