Lake has astounded me this year with numbers caught !

[SenkoSam]

Maybe it's because my fishing style has change, but each time I fish this lake I catch over 40 fish and in the last three trips have caught 60 each trip and over 60 total including my partner's catch.

This is what may account for the success on this lake: using sonar to find fish in the area and then casting around the boat to find groups of fish. I also don't fish the deepest water or long shorelines that don't hold fish.

The structure that has held many fish are flats that average 6' deep. The deepest water is 14' but holds no fish. But strange was catching bass on 3' deep flat edges that dropped into 6'.

What I've found key in working large areas is using jigs with soft plastics that cast a long distance and can work large areas. The best jig weight yesterday was 1/24 oz whereas the trip before 1/16 oz worked fine.

Many lure designs worked and in many colors - even curl tail grubs which I rarely use. Crappie, sunfish, yellow perch and bass were caught on the same lures.

This wacky rigged mini-stick caught crappie and bass. What a beautiful action!


The best lure I can always count on is a white spike tail grub:


A claw from a bass lure also caught fish:

I guess it's similar to a Crappie Magnet grub which also did well:


My cone tail did well but with a different part added: I thicker head:



I would have tried for 100 but the heat got to me by 3:30 pm.
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