rate of fall

[tommy]

ive been catching them on a jig on steep banks on different sizes and colors...lift the bait up 2 feet and let it fall on a semi-slack line...1/4 oz. finnese jig with 60 strands to 1/2 oz. with 15 strands...the fish, when you catch them, are all picking it up after it hits the bottom and sits there a few seconds...

im not sure if i should be dragging, hopping 6 inches at a time, or using a different bait completely...its catching fish, but its not tearing it up, i watched 4 miles of line to get 4 bites last night...same thing with a senko, fished weightless or on a 1/8th oz. jighead...

what would it tell you, and what would you change?

[Gorgebassman]

Seems to me that your getting fish on a feeding bite and not a reaction type strike to me that says jig with a craw trailer dragged slowly right on the bottom.

[Catt]

what would it tell you?

It tells me the presentation is spot on because you are catching

and what would you change?

Nothing. 4 miles for 4 bites, sometimes that's the way it is

[Paul Roberts]

There are LOTS of bass down there. Most of the time they could care less about your lure. The lure has to do something to intrigue the bass. Sitting motionless on bottom, does the trick. But it is slow going. Start horizontal, playing with speed and other triggers. If no go, start going vertical. Play with speed (rate of fall), down to dead-sticking. Sounds like a summer bite to me. Deeper water and slow going.

[Matt Fly]

first part of your statement said you had been catching them on all sizes and colors.

So on this day, they wanted you to dial in with specifics.

What 4 lures got the 4 bites? what type of water did those bites come in? any similarities.

did those 4 bites come on the fall, while sitting, while moving?

When out the next night and watching 4 miles of line, make mental notes and try something different than what got you the 4 bites, what do you have to loose? 4 bites

In those 4 miles of line watching, did you eliminate the other water columns? top and middle, it sounds like bass was not present on bottom during that time or they were inactive.