More Midwest Finesse

[mjk86]

Arkie Jigs have worked for me, and the price is right! Also....I bed ned rig will work quite well on schooling, and even suspended bass. A few years ago, I caught lots of suspended fish with a weightless (or with a small split shot) senko knockoff (yum dinger to be exact), fished wacky style on a 2/0 gammy ewg, and the color was white/silver with pepper flakes. Some fish were surfacing, but the ones I was targeting were suspended under the surfacing fish. Took a while for it to get to 25 feet, but they would destroy it when it did, sometimes it would get whacked right under the surface.

[abkeenan]

Arkie Jigs have worked for me, and the price is right! Also....I bed ned rig will work quite well on schooling, and even suspended bass. A few years ago, I caught lots of suspended fish with a weightless (or with a small split shot) senko knockoff (yum dinger to be exact), fished wacky style on a 2/0 gammy ewg, and the color was white/silver with pepper flakes. Some fish were surfacing, but the ones I was targeting were suspended under the surfacing fish. Took a while for it to get to 25 feet, but they would destroy it when it did, sometimes it would get whacked right under the surface.

I am a YUM Dinger guy as well. I would use the elaztec and Zinker stuff but I loaded up on Dingers after I had success on them a couple years ago so when they run out I will give the zinkers a try. But the Dingers flat out work no doubt.

[mjk86]

Ya, When I bass fish BW lakes here in st louis, its about 90% watermelon red flake dinger, that just kills the 12" fish here with an occasional big fish. Im sure any senko style bait works as well as the next, but ive always been partial to the dinger (maybe its the name). The white/shad colored ones worked well for me, I rigged them about 2/3 the way down the bait, instead of half way like a normal wacky worm, seemed to work better for me, maybe it imitated a sputtering shad better.

[abkeenan]

Ya, When I bass fish BW lakes here in st louis, its about 90% watermelon red flake dinger, that just kills the 12" fish here with an occasional big fish. Im sure any senko style bait works as well as the next, but ive always been partial to the dinger (maybe its the name). The white/shad colored ones worked well for me, I rigged them about 2/3 the way down the bait, instead of half way like a normal wacky worm, seemed to work better for me, maybe it imitated a sputtering shad better.

The Busch Wildlife lakes have been frozen for like 3 months. Pathetic.

[mjk86]

Ya, its pretty rediculous when the conservation dept magazine has an article on ice fishing in missouri. Last year I got drawn for a bow hunt there in late december, and all the lakes were frozen up and it wasnt even very cold, so I havent even considered going up there this year.

[Old plug]

thumbs a 18 in bass on LOZ is often thin they run aboit 31/4 to 31/2you could put 5- 18" fish on a stringer and not collect a check. It regularly takes 20 lbs to win. I do not do tournaments. You could count the number of tournaments I have been in on your hands and you would not be using much of the second hand. I did not even get into a tournament fishing till I was 55 yrs old. Tournaments are not the way I grew up fishing. I never thought of it as acompetarive sport. I never will. I only won two and won big bass in the other. I enjoy my lunker hunting. I usualy only catch between 8-10 a year that size. Last year I only got 6 and 2 of those were a surprise and came very fast. I caught them within 2o minutes about 100 yards apart. That will not happen very often for sure. The area was effected by a specific condition due to heavy rain and its does produce a lot of bass when its that way.

[dtrs5kprs]

Ned and Ronny Denayer, of Butler, MO, caught quite a few at La Cygne on 2/13. FNN subscribers should have, or should be getting the story in their email. 70+ fish, at least one decent fish from his pics. 1/32 to 3/32oz heads, Finesse ShadZ, and some grubs mixed in.