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Help me catch bass
Posted on 4/21/20 at 8:01 pm
Posted on 4/21/20 at 8:01 pm
I do some Kayak fishing. I even went tonight to a small lake I’ve caught some decent bass at. But more times than not I end up just wetting the hook. What color/type of plastics are catching bass these days? Carolina,Texas, or drop shot?.. I usually just Texas rig it because I’m used to it..
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Posted on 4/21/20 at 8:43 pm to Jiggy Moondust
Where do you live, bud?
Posted on 4/21/20 at 8:49 pm to Jiggy Moondust
First thing, they won’t bite it if they aren’t there. The practical difference between rigs, colors, styles is splitting hairs if you’re not putting it in front of their face. Tweaking the presentation comes in when you know generally where they are and what they’re doing. It’s postspawn and getting hotter by the day so fish will move deeper, until the bluegill get busy then there will be a few bass hanging around their beds. What you want to do is cover water and try to determine where and why you got bites. Small swimbaits, squarebills, spinnerbaits, prettymuch anything that you can chunk and wind will make a good search bait. Try to read the bank and gauge where contours in the bottom might be, usually pond/lake fish will hold just off it while they wait to feed.
Posted on 4/21/20 at 9:27 pm to O
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Where do you live, bud?
I live between Greenville and Spartanburg South Carolina.
Posted on 4/21/20 at 9:34 pm to TheDrunkenTigah
That’s good info. I appreciate it and will put it to practice next time.. Ive has some luck with Z Craws and Ratl traps in the lake I go to most of the time, it’s a good kayak friendly lake, with tons of Lilly pads.Ive used frogs a few times
Posted on 4/21/20 at 10:39 pm to Jiggy Moondust
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, it’s a good kayak friendly lake, with tons of Lilly pads.Ive used frogs a few times
You talking about Lake Cunningham or Lake Lyman?
Posted on 4/21/20 at 10:42 pm to Jiggy Moondust
Watch some youtube videos. I like tacticalbassin. There are a bunch you can go from there. A lot of good tips and advice.
Posted on 4/21/20 at 10:54 pm to Jiggy Moondust
Yeah a lot of the time the body of water will dictate to you what bait to use. It’s all about keeping that bait in the strike zone for as much time as possible per cast. It’s your job as an angler to figure out where the strike zone is and what will stay there the most. A Texas rig spends a split second in the strike zone if there’s three feet of grass on the bottom, while a fluke will glide over the top of it right in front of them. Lilies have their own set of techniques, but the bigger point is those techniques just allow you to get a bait in there effectively, so don’t concern yourself as much with colors and exactly how you’re rigging it. Bass aren’t that damn smart, 95% of getting a bite is ensuring they’re close enough to see it, the other 5% is in the details of the presentation. Bait companies make money convincing you this or that color or design is the trick, when what you’re really looking to do is learn to predict where the fish are at a given time and what pattern they’re on.
Posted on 4/21/20 at 11:38 pm to Jiggy Moondust
I used to live in Anderson and then Seneca.
You ever heard of lake issaqueena? I’d highly recommend trying there. I caught monsters out there in the summer using a frog in the Lilly pads. Great kayaking lake.
Don’t get wrapped up in colors. Keep it simple. Natural colors on clearer water. Dark colors in dirty water are good rules of thumb.
I can also help with keowee, hartwell, and surrounding lakes too.
You ever heard of lake issaqueena? I’d highly recommend trying there. I caught monsters out there in the summer using a frog in the Lilly pads. Great kayaking lake.
Don’t get wrapped up in colors. Keep it simple. Natural colors on clearer water. Dark colors in dirty water are good rules of thumb.
I can also help with keowee, hartwell, and surrounding lakes too.
Posted on 4/22/20 at 12:04 am to CFDoc
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Don’t get wrapped up in colors. Keep it simple. Natural colors on clearer water. Dark colors in dirty water are good rules of thumb.
I think this is pretty good advice. I sometimes get too wrapped up in BS instead of keeping things simple and enjoying being on the water.
Posted on 4/22/20 at 12:12 am to Jiggy Moondust
If you have pads in the lake definitely have to throw a frog. I prefer popping frogs either Spro or booyah. I keep it stupid simple and throw either black or white. Also swimming flukes around the pads are deadly. Usually do most my damage on smoking shad. But you can’t beat watermelon red In just about any bait brush hogs to ribbon tails. Junebug red is my go to once the water hits 75.
Posted on 4/22/20 at 4:14 am to Jiggy Moondust
In fairly clean water from the spawn to the late fall when the water starts getting cold I keep a floating worm or weightless fluke tied on a rod at all times. White or pink if cloudy, bright sunshine then green pumpkin or watermellon. Really good for shallow pressured fish
Posted on 4/22/20 at 6:18 am to Jiggy Moondust
For simplicity
Start easy with a green ned rig.
Fish it slow under the “t” of a dock.
Start easy with a green ned rig.
Fish it slow under the “t” of a dock.
This post was edited on 4/22/20 at 6:21 am
Posted on 4/22/20 at 6:50 am to Jiggy Moondust
Posted on 4/22/20 at 7:12 am to Homey the Clown
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Watch some youtube videos. I like tacticalbassin.
Also, Flukemaster (Gene Jensen) has a ton of "how to" type videos on youtube. He teaches a lot about different lures and techniques. Whether you're a beginner or expert, you can probably learn something from his youtube channel.
Flukemaster
This post was edited on 4/22/20 at 7:21 am
Posted on 4/22/20 at 1:55 pm to Jiggy Moondust
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You talking about Lake Cunningham or Lake Lyman?
Lake Cunningham. I have been on Lyman before, my uncle also owns a place there
Posted on 4/22/20 at 2:03 pm to Jiggy Moondust
This will find the fish 90% of the time
Posted on 4/22/20 at 2:28 pm to CFDoc
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You ever heard of lake issaqueena?
I assume that’s where the issaqueenna Trail is? Ive heard of it because I mountain bike, and I know it’s near Clemson.
Posted on 4/22/20 at 2:48 pm to DTRooster
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weightless fluke
I have caught more largemouth bass on a weightless fluke (Zoom superfluke, shad color) than any other lure.
In the heat of the summer when it's hard to entice a strike, I move to a Zoom trick-worm with a little split shot a couple feet up from the worm (Georgia Redneck version of a Carolina Rig), and fish it very slow on the bottom around structure. Thump. Reel down. Set hook. You'll set hook on structure alot, if you're doing it right.
Evening or early morning, it's always a Rebel Pop-R.
If I fish all three of those things, and don't catch any bass, the lake sucks.
This post was edited on 4/22/20 at 2:49 pm
Posted on 4/22/20 at 3:08 pm to Jiggy Moondust
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Lake Cunningham. I have been on Lyman before, my uncle also owns a place there
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
This post was edited on 4/22/20 at 3:19 pm
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