Bass Rookie

[MacroGuru]

So I am what you would call a Bass rookie. Despite living in WNY for the past 8 years I never went after the bass much. Just at a few lakes from shore when I took the kids to catch Crappie.

I am getting ready to invest in gear, I will be fishing a lot from shore.

I am going to test some rigs up @ Deer Creek and see if I can catch any.

What would you feel would be the better times of day to attack them?
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[albinotrout]

Early morning is good for too water baits. During the day use spinner baits and Texas rigs around the submerged cover.
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[gstott]

A plain old 3" curly tail grub in pumpkinseed or green pumpkin was always effective there for me. I also used to catch a ton on just a plain old Panther Martin inline spinner with a gold blade. A small wacky rigged stick worm is hard to beat as well. Tubes and really anything that imitates crayfish tend to catch them as well.
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[westonater1980]

Gstott knows what's up man those fish munch on the crawdads (which don't get very big in deer creek these days) I prefer 1/4 ounce strike king jigs with Yamamoto double tail grubs as a trailer. Just slowly crawl it across the rocks.
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