in the winter, how do u fish it?

With a jacket ? Just kidding, would like to know myself, other than than infamous rattletrap.

Drop shot a rainbow trout colored Zara Spook with an 18 foot long 4lb test leader on the main river channel in the middle of the lake. Target 80-90 feet deep.

All the local sticks say this year it will be "something else".

Now why would you tell him rainbow trout zara spook man? You know it's gonna be won on the spro frog drop shot combo...

Yeah i totally agree with those guys dude definitely drop-shot time there. Anytime you can reach the 60 foot plus zone it should be on like crazy. If drop shotting the spook or frog don't work ,then I would just have to drop shot the good ol' Jitter-Bug. Works all day....

I think I would go out with a guide, it is a big lake. I have been out twice and the west shore below the bridge (launching at Cassell Boykin), head towards the dam, from mud creek to Caney creek is good. I have also heard launch at Powell park and fish Buck Bay. Now these places are huge, so that is why having a guide is nice to find the type of structure the fish are in, then you can find that else where. The first time I went out we started off fishing a flat with rattle traps, then texas rigged plastic worms in hydrilla, then ribbit frogs on the pepper grass, then went in. We caught lots of bass, biggest was 4#. Lots of fun. It changes all of the time. Good luck.

Not a "something else" year. Just a different lure than last year. (A something else lure than last year.) Last year the hot lure was the Excaliber X50 & X75. Typically the lures tend to change from year to year. Same type lure (vibrating)just different style, same color (red, orange, brown). When it gets cold on Rayburn you throw a vibrating bait over the grass. Rayburn fish don't ever really go into a WINTER pattern that you read about like up north lakes. They just hunker down and relate to the grass. Inside line, outside line or over the top. Yes, there will be some C-rigging with lizards but overall the vibrating bite will be the most consistent. Fall Rayburn Bass will stay with the grass and just slide into a pre-spawn pattern and very quickly go to the spawn.

+1 on what BigRon said...

Holy Smokes- Big Ron has abandoned the drop shot and went to chunkin' a trap!