Anotherone wrote:piece of raw shrimp
I've never used shrimp in freshwater, but in saltwater everything loves them. I've thought about it. Just haven't done it.
Ricky Spanish wrote:Darryll thought it'd work too so we trolled back n forth for 4 hours towing little yellow spinners. All we caught were crappie too small to keep.
BTW, when I said I hadn't had much success in lakes and ponds with spinners. That's across the board. I've caught everything from common carp to king salmon with inline spinners in rivers and streams, but in lakes and ponds not a lot of success. Spinnerbaits and especially buzzbaits, I've done well. Although, I do have to confess, I've always done far better in streams than flat water. That's what I grew up doing. Fishing moving water for trout in the spring and then smallmouths and a variety of sunfish in the summer. So as I moved around the country I gravitated to the stream fishing wherever I was.
Ricky Spanish wrote:In May the same lure is deadly on spawning bass.
What isn't deadly on spawning bass?
Ricky Spanish wrote:To catch a fish from shore is nearly impossible but from a boat the fish are stupid. All the pressure comes from the shore.
I find that in retention ponds in developments. I have my buzzbait tied to my rod with 25 lb test braid on it and I can cast it an effing mile. Usually all the bites come way the hey out there. Where as unpressured water I'll get a lot of bites right near the shoreline structure. Sometimes right as I pick it up before it drags on shore. I nearly always stand a little ways back from the shore so I don't spook the fish at the water's edge.
I was fishing one pond that was crystal clear and almost no structure, but they had fountains. With my buzzbait I could just reach the fountain heads and pulled bass out from under them. One guy sitting on a porch overlooking the lake. When I came by, he said "I've never seen anyone else catch a fish out of this pond."
I caught a few nice bass and had one actually break my line when it just smashed the buzzbait
I didn't even bring a spare bait and had to walk back to the place we were staying to get a new one
Braid doesn't brake and buzzbaits don't snag. Well, usually.