there is a pond down the road full of 3-6in shad. bass have been schooling all week!
here are some pics from this week



4lber

today I got 7, all over 2lbs!

got almost all of the fish on a lake fork live magic shad rigged for open water



I weighed all of e'm too, biggest was 4.5lbs from today!

Nice fish PondBass!

good job - those fish all look healthy too, must be a good pond.

Thanks!

How is that rigged? Did you buy it pre rigged?

what pond was this at?? was this in coppell

I rigged it myself. I loop the line through a regular hook's eye, use the hook to thread the line through the nose of the bait and come out in the hook slot. I then remove the hook and put on a tru tungsten 1/8oz worm weight and tie on a treble.

pond is a secret.

LOL..if I told ya I'd have to kill ya.

Nice job!

Thanks, I'm guess it swims straight?

until the whole bait gets ripped up!

as long as the weight is centered in the slot it'll run great until 4-5th fish. superglue time!

I also found that it runs better if you cut ba hole in the hook slot and embed the weight in soft plastic. but... it gets torn up quicker

rigged:

I thought that is what you did by the look of the first pic but not sure. Thanks for the tip, I'll be trying it soon. All I need is 5 fish anyways!

it works really well. I kind of want to try it on a bigger bait though