Trip To The Lake

[Tearin Up Topwater]

Coming to the Lake the week of the 27th. Hope the bite is still good that week. I'm fairly new to using the drop shot rig. What colors do you all recommend? I plan on finessing them if I have to, since I expect it to be even hotter that week. We'll be on the water 4am to 10am. Can't wait! Keep up the great reports.

[SKMO]

Coming to the Lake the week of the 27th. Hope the bite is still good that week. I'm fairly new to using the drop shot rig. What colors do you all recommend? I plan on finessing them if I have to, since I expect it to be even hotter that week. We'll be on the water 4am to 10am. Can't wait! Keep up the great reports.

I've been doing real good on green pumpkin the last few weeks. Pretty much anything based on green generally works OK for me or is a good place to start on TR. Watermelon candy is another standby color. Also purples/reds like like chompers brown/purple laminate. I actually use a lot of Iovino baits that are pretty pricy but they float so if they get shook off you can scoop them up and re-use them. I like Iovino "Oxblood Cinnamon" and "Rhythem and Blues" laminates.

Overall some shade of dark green or red/purple seems to be the ticket most often in my boat. If you can find fish that are cooperative I don't think it makes a lot of difference. There is no secrete formula.

All this is just my opinion but I think 90% of the game is finding the right fish and maybe 10% is having the right color. Stated another way if I get on hot fish they can be caught on absolutely anything. If they get picky and hard to catch color does come into play but they are still hard to catch and there is no secret formula. I'll toss down a variety of green, red purple and dark colors hoping for a bite.

Good Luck - SKMO

[mclothier1]

I just got back from a week's vacation, fishing was good. Im starting to like it when those storms roll thru, on wed 6/16 I got out early and caught one on topwater (still learning so gimme a break) from 9 am on I hit several Kentucky dropping a crawler off of a bluff end in 24 to 36ft of water, then a storm rolled thru in the afternoon and I got out and waded the bank in front of some bushes in the water, casting a shakey head with a purple/brown worm of some kind, and was getting bit on almost every cast. Lots of short bites, and I finally figured out that patience is the key, along with shortening up the worm just a bit. I ended up dragging the shakey till I felt a bite, then just slacked off a bit and if they started swimming off with it, blammo! I ended up catching 6 smallmouth, two of them were fat keepers, I didnt have my scale on me but one of them had to be close to 4# it was a toad. And they all fought hard and are still swimming right where I left them. Bank was sloping gravel and water depth where I was casting was a max of 12-15 ft.

I guess what Im trying to say is, If a storm rolls thru... put on that rain gear and drag a shakey head, you might be surprised! Not sure what part of the lake you are staying, I was mostly fishing #5 to #7.

[dtrs5kprs]

If the drop shot fishies don't work out try dragging a C-rig and fish doc/french fry on flat gravel, well off the bank, say 15' out to 35'. Might try flipping a white spoon in some of the big and deep docks also. Peel line off hard and fast so it falls on slack line back in the slips, over cables, up by pontoons, etc. It is a reaction deal. Worked well for me last week.

[T-RockJaws]

If you get out in the dark hours, Texas rigged craws and big worms are working pretty well too.