The Ned And A Jerkbait

[Ham]

The Mc Stick is a good bait. Several size options. Ever expanding color selection. Available in three sizes. It's pretty durable too especially when compared to its high priced import alternative.

Mc Sticks seem to be offered at reduced prices a bunch. If you'll keep an eye out for it, you have a chance to get them at 20-30 % off retail and stock up.

[LarrySTL]

I am way out of my league here commenting behind Champ and Bill, but I've gotten lots of solid info on this board, so FWIW here's my small contribution.

Try Champ's places/pattern first, the steeper main lake type stuff, but if that doesn't work well and if its one of those unusual midwinter days where the air temp seems far warmer than the calendar and the water temp would suggest, at the end of one of those steeper banks, or the first point where the main channel swings in after being way offshore for a long distance) there may be a large, gently-sloped pea gravel spawning looking main lake point with wind on it. Find a channel drop that comes toward that point, and throw the stickbait with a very slow retrieve between the channel swing and the shoreline.

An example of the type of point I mean ( which I am giving because it at least used to be a community hole, and because I have never thrown a stick on it) would be the flat side of the upstream point of the mouth of Aunts Creek.

[Champ188]

Larry, no one is out of their league on this forum. You make a great point about those gravel transition points. Thanks for adding that.