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Looking for some fresh input A ton of shakey heads on the market right now What's your favorite one's and why ? When it comes to the angle of the eyelet on a shakey head what degree 45,60,90...is preferred and why? Is a straight eye "better" than a flat eye? Thanks

Ham I had just one fish belly up on me in 3 days, a 13" crappie and she got a hot grease bath. Using finesse gear gives them plenty of time to adjust to the depth changes during the fight. A quick unhook, look, then a gentle toss up and back makes them do a power dive back down deep. The cold water from top to bottom really makes it easier on the fish too. Watch for the birds they always are on fish/shad. The gulls and loons where around all 3 days in the same area.

June through Feb. I won't wet a hook until I see fish on the screen...sometimes it takes an hour or so of driving around looking, sometimes you find what you are looking for right away If I have the time to look I'll deff. scan first.

Wt 52 Slow presentations = steady action! Fished the last few mornings from 7:30 until about 1. Calm , with overcast. Found some really big crappie 35-45' suspended on trees and bit a glo green Jigging Rap once I figured out they wanted it dead sticked after the initial drop. Lots of football kentuckies to be caught on finesse gear right now! The front deck of the boat is littered with torn up 3" tubes from the last 3 days. Fished it on 4lb. in 35-60 fow around shad on the edges of and in the river channel in the Theodosia arm. Almost every spot I caught was longer than 12", some were pushing 3lbs. Caught some big whites too!! Cast out and let it free fall all the way to the bottom, take your time, let that 1/8 oz tube sink to the bottom 50+ft. then SLOWLY bring it back to the boat. The gulls and loons "showed" me where to fish, thank you birds!!

Ham thanks for the report, we have been blessed with great weather so far this week !

WT 55 Crappie fished early and caught 27 , 5 were keepers. 8-12' in brush piles 1/16 jig and YUM grubs. Had an hour left picked up the umbrella rig and caught 4 fat 17-18" largemouth. Fish were suspended at 12-30' over 38' on a channel swing.

Anyone here ever heard of DIDSON? I have an older dual frequency id type sonar unit on my boat and just love it!

If my memory serves me correctly Fall/Winter is when you see a lot of the belly redness. They (black bass) also will start getting those black spots and blotches more in colder water during the prespawn. I've not been on the lake for a while. I'm ready for some Fall frenzy feeding!!

nxs, could be parasites,red sore disease, necrosis, a virus, who knows. I've seen this about everywhere I've fished for bass, and they seem to tolerate it well. It's just something that comes and goes during their whole life. For example a bass can eat a small fish that had ate a "bad bug" and then it gets passed on to the bass and the bass gets "sick".

Happy to hear your are into some fish ! There might be a few walleye following the shad into the creeks now...typical fall behavior. Last Friday while bass fishing we caught 4 short eyes on a crankbait 10' deep on a mud flat way up a creek. They were maybe 12". Have not walleye fished since mid September. We were spooning 50-65' deep over deeper water at the mouths of major creek arms. I'm thinking they may have moved further back by now, but idk for sure.. If anyone knows it would be MIke,

thanks for the replies everyone Neb, It's a presentation they will bite year round. It seems to be really popular during cool weather like you said. I don't believe the shad school any diferently than they do the rest of the year really. There are always shad deep,shallow,and in between. I do know the depth you fish it in changes a lot based on numerous variables. We caught fish during the spawn with it this year. Had some really good days in August on the rig. I guess a few months ago the FLW made it illegal in their tour T's for 2014.

Has anyone been throwing the umbrella rigs lately? I think now would be a good time to use one to catch these schooling fish I'm hearing about.

might as well put my 2 cents in ... 15lb. for 1/4-3/8 oz. 17lb. for 1/2-3/4oz. 20lb for anything heavier Red Label Seaguar I've tried about every fluorocarbon out there and I always come back to the Red stuff..

That's a good brownie abbfish ! Congratulations

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After flipping every creature bait in the boat w/o a hit. A tube is what they wanted. A 4" in Smoke Purple ,Texas rigged. Also about 95% of the bass we caught were largemouth along with a few spots. Not 1 smallmouth.

The weather was excellent, and the fishing was fun ! We caught lots of bass everyday but it wasn't easy. Fishing coves and creeks from Pontiac to Theodosa we found a good shallow bite. Friday they were up in the cover Saturday we nothing happening. .. We threw lipless and shallow running cranks to get bit. Sunday Saw lots of shad in the shallow cover this time. Picked up spinnerbait and got plenty of bites but they were all smalls We moved out deeper and tried the cranks again, nothing. Tied on a 1/4 oz. football jig and drug it around a little deeper in 7-10' and got bit. WT was 79 early rising to 82 by mid afternoon.