Eat, Sleep, AC.

C rig and split shot fluke.

Stay inside.

Place cup under ice maker in fridge... 4 cubes is perfect... Pour whiskey to two fingers hight... sit in chair... watch bassmasters on tv...

Swing head

Strike King Rage Tail Shellcracker


I've been having crazy good success with this setup in about 15ft of water over boulders and chunk rock. Green pumpkin, pearl, honey candy get nod from me.

Get on lake before first light, fish a frog for 3 hours, get off lake.
Relax in AC
Get back on lake 1 hour before dark and fish frog until dark, then drag around a big worm for a couple of hours, get off lake.

I like your style sir.

Flutter spoon, catch unders and overs

The stand in the shade approach for this old man.

Hot and calm. No one else fishing. Noon to dark. Frogs over the grass. Slayed em the last two Saturdays on Decker. (Walter E Long lake)

It must be calm. No ripples. The hotter the better. Seriously.

I'm growing real fond of a drop shot. I've been doing pretty good with that, Trigs,Crigs, and med depth crankbaits. Ive seen the biggest schools of my life this year. I saw one yesterday that looked as big as a football field.

The frog or other topwater bite is always rigged up when its hot, but I have been liking the biffle bug/hard head rig this time of year for the past couple of years. You will need a couple of sizes to play with and you can't go wrong with the smoke silver or black neon/double silver colors around the rip-rap, dams or flats with hard bottom. Early and late, shallow or deep that little rig will get you some bites. The people I have seen who are not getting the hang of it seem to psych themselves out by changing style of plastic or color too often. It is very much a reaction bite so that stuff is not as important as fishing it in the right areas and finding the right speed and tempo. Its a winner for me though.

Only two things working for me on bigger bass right now. Green pumpkin/black fleck 1/2oz jig with a green pumpkin blue, or green pumpkin black rage craw trailer. Or Senkos, green pumpkin black fleck or motor oil large red flake. Thrown to 15-20 ft grass edges. Catching average of 5 to 7 an hour and averaging around 18-20lbs best five a night.

Only getting to fish from 6-8pm during the week.

Yesterday ? WTH?!!!!! The weather sent them elsewhere or locked them up. I blanked for the first time in two months. Got one non keeper and missed a "decent" feeling tug on a jig and it took the trailer. Let's you know real fast that you don't know as much as you think you do. Lol

Finesse....

Go out for the daylight bite, fish topwaters and wacky worms till the sun gets up, then get the heck off the water. Go back to the house and have a nice fisherman's breakfast of say a couple of eggs over easy, some grits or hash browns, a couple of slices of good tomatoe, bacon, and a couple of pieces of toast or biscuits. Then go take a nap.