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Here's what I get when I targeted big bass last Friday haha

That a whopper plopper???

the transition period is tough...the fish have been in a funk the last 2 weeks....all summer i have had good success with t-rigged plastics along the outside weed edge adjacent to rocks...now i can't even get a sniff....i did have some success pond fishing with a small swim bait bouncing it off the bottom last week..

what size plopper did you go with?

that's the medium sized one. I've never had any success with the smaller ones. the large ones (in various brands same basic lure) have been great for musky and i know guys have had bass hit them but i haven't had anything but musky on large ones. apparently the medium one enticed a smallmouth while i was largemouth fishing...and this lake doesn't really have much smallmouth, only 5-7ft at it's deepest except for 1 or 2 spots.

i've had minor success with all kinds of search lures like swimbaits, lipless and shallow cranks, spinnerbaits, etc. but nothing that i would call my fall go to lure. this is for shallow lakes. for deeper lakes and reservoirs i go fly jigging all day long!

any luck on zara puppies or slug-go in 4" arkansas shinner no weight? i have been seeing alot of baitfish activity on the" big pond" in the evening. p.s did somebody steal your reg fishin hat? haven't seen you wearing it, could be a problem.

haha, no i just went after work and that's all i had in the car. I'll be testing out the large spook today. I'll probably test some kind of soft weedless jerk bait too...though the hard jerk baits have only been getting me pickerel.

hit it again yesterday. had one lm on a soft jerk bait worked pretty slow then a pickerel took it :mad: after that had a few small fish pop my spook straight out of the water, i'm thinking small pickerel or perch. and my last bass came on a lipless crankbait reeled as fast as i possibly could haha. no multiple bass catches on anyone lure...as usual for this time of the season!

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Originally Posted by logs22 (Post 461526)

I caught three nice 18-20" LMB last night in super shallow water using a weightless strike king plastic frog (sort of like the zoom horny toad). I was having most luck on a slow retrieve with frequent pauses and the occasional light twitch. My go-to black/blue wacky rig senkos has also lost all their effectiveness but I am still doing really well with Texas rigged green Pumpkin/black flecks senkos.

I also recently started using one of those lure scents that I bought on a whim at Walmart. It's called Lunker lotion or something absurd like that and is fluorescent green. I caught a nice bass the first cast using the stuff and have been catching way more fish since I started slathering it on all my plastics. At this point I don't care if it really works or the placebo effect makes me fish better because I think it will work - I am catching more fish and therefore most likely am hooked on the smelly green slime for life.

last thing I caught on a Zoom Horny toad :)

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Originally Posted by Chrisper4694 (Post 461899)

this incoming front is going to slow them down...good luck at the contest