re: Help me catch bass

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Lake Cunningham. I have been on Lyman before, my uncle also owns a place there

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Put on a natural shad fluke, 5- 5 1/2" long.

From the ramp go left towards the main lake, and where the canal ends and opens up into the lake, position your yak so that you are facing back towards the canal with the lake to your back. For the first three hours after sunrise just work this area. The fish at this time of year are there. Watch closely for ANY shad activity on top showing bass chasing and get your fluke there just ahead of the direction shad are skipping. Twitch-twitch- pause (about 3 seconds), then repeat all the way back to the yak. Many will follow the fluke that you might see, but don't break the retrieve cadence, maybe just give the pause a count to 5 instead of 3 before resuming.

You will...WILL...catch some good postspawners doing this up to @ 5 lbs.

After that just work the pad edges in that area using a white, white chartreuse swim jig (1/4-3/8 oz) with shad colored trailer.


(Edit) FWIW Cunningham can be a pretty tough lake. Fish get heavy pressure and have pretty much seen it all. A frog may do soem good at the crack of dawn or at dusk but I have thrown one for hours on end in that lake and have yet to have a hit on one FTR