First time using a ned rig

[Chief Grey Bear]

Not so much the worm as those that handle it.

[dtrs5kprs]

Not so much the worm as those that handle it.

Yep, I'm glittery as get out.

Especially in my 8 year old Gore Tex, 10 year old boat that hasn't been washed and waxed since 2013, faded out ranger hat (patch is starting to look pink), camo shirts from Wal Mart, and ancient wranglers. Look close and you can probably tell I shave about 3 times a week when I am at the lake. Those are the days I want to be showy for the throngs of spectators. It's like being KVD really.

[Chief Grey Bear]

I'm wrong.

I thought you were pretty quick witted.

[Omega jig bass]

Does anybody know when the shad spawn is on LOZ ?

[fishinwrench]

It follows the bass/crappie spawn in the lake, and earlier in the creeks. Those seawalls I was chanting about a few weeks ago are prime spots. Seldom used concrete boat ramps and irregularities along a seawall behind docks are spots where bass hang out to gorge on them. They won't spawn in areas where the water is rough and that's why the shoreline behind docks are so good, the dock acts as a wave breaker.

You know the shad are spawning when they start chasing and slapping at your baits.

Quite a bit of that is still going on right now.

[Omega jig bass]

Ok thanks.

[Old plug]

You would not believe the number of small shad about 1/2 in long that are in the lake right now. I put a submerged light down week before last just to watch the fish and see what showed up. right away there were a lot of plankton around the light and schools of these small shad starded circleing the light snatching the plankton. By the time I got to tired to watch the swarm circleing that light had grown to a little better than the width of that stall (9'). It was like looking down into the center of a tornado. The light was down about6 ft. the shad would circle like a cloud gettin deeper and closer to the light as they swam around. Sort of made me wonder if they were bot following some ritual in taking turns at the plankton There was so many they almost looked solid. I tried to gat a picture of it but my camera would not pick it up well enough.

[Old plug]

I sem to remember Dave you saying tou were not supporting the neg rig for finacial reasons. Is that correct.

[Old plug]

Mitch----- I do not use that type bait as a matter of preferance but iI seen one you made and It seems to be well made. like I would have expected from you. If I was naming it I would call it something like Mitches Bass Majic. To me that your saying this is the way I like it even if there are similar baits of that type. That is a lot different approach than what the ned people did.

[conorsixtakc]

They haven't in the last 40 years.

If you look at any crank, spinner, buzz bait, or all the other hot soft plastics, have they ever stopped or slowed down hitting them?

I think it is more of the hype reporting that slows down but the bite stays as hot as it ever was.

Well except the Helocopter. And maybe the Banjo Minnow. No amount of hype could save them.

You bite your tongue, I had some banner days with the banjo minnow on LOZ as a kid!