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What is your favourite lure or bait for muddy water bass fishing? SalmonBuster
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Depends. Early in the spring during floods, jig/pig or Senko. Later a spinerbait. After a rain in the summer, Rattletrap.
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Either a flippin a jig or a shallow running square lipped crankbait.
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I like to toss an M-80.  Jig 'n' pig ferr me. I love Senkos, just haven't used them much for large mouth, just smallies. Don't see them in muddy water very often though.
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It seems to me that when the water is muddy and dark bass like to get up in the shallow water up underneth docks real shallow like 2 feet or less.and when you skip a senko underneth the dock the bass will kill it.
I love skipping senkos under docks its my fav. way to fish.
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OK, so it's the 20th. of Jan. Kapowsin is maybe 44 degrees. It's been raining for weeks and the day's high is 42 degrees with mild wind. Although it's been cold, the weather as been somewhat stable. If you went out this afternoon, what would you do?
If you haven't been there, it's full of stumps and logs where you can't run a large outboard, limited to small aluminum boats. Couple miles long, 25 feet at the deepest, mostly under 15 feet, natural type lake. Lots of weeds, pads, shoreline trees, brush and no docks. Largemouth, Perch, Crappie, Catfish, Rock Bass, BlueGill, Trout, Washington Painted Turtles, etc.
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I would probally start out fishing fast with a crankbait banging it off the stumps trying for a reaction strike.After a while if I got nothing from that I would switch between pitching jigs and pitching tubes rigged on a jighead.
I have herd that 80% of a washingtons largemouth diet in the winter time is sculpin and I think a tube resembles a sculpin pretty well.
Wow I just wrote a freaking novel!
So Trouthead what would your choices be??
Shaun.
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First I guess I have to wait until tomorrow cause I've got to pick up my daughter after school.
I like your ideas.
I would probably start with a larger single blade spinnerbait, a red neon fippin tube, a carolina grub and a jerkbait. Good thing about the jerkbait and your crank is that big Trout will also nail them. Other options would be jigging spoons, dropshot and bunny jig/float in deeper water.
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Have you had much luck on jigging spoons?
I have actually never fished for bass with them.
I have caught big kokanee on them but never bass.
It seems like they would work good vertacle jigging in lake washington when the fish are in the 60 to 80 depth in late winter.
Shaun.
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First, I've never fished this lake before. I do have some experience fishing shallow lakes for cold water bass though.
I'd run a drop-shot rig with a short (6-8 inch) dropper, and stick with smaller (3") dark colored plasics. Fish really slow using a horizontal drop shot technique. Cast out and slowly work the bait back to the boat. Pause often and jiggle the rod tip, then let the bait sit. Fish the edges of channels and drop offs.
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Thats one thing that sucks about alot of the smaller lakes over here, there are no real dropoffs,channels or things like that alot of these lakes are like huge salad bowls.
It kinda makes it harder to pinpoint where the fish are when they arnt up shallow.Dont get me wrong some lakes over here have awesome structure but alot dont.
Shaun.
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Mojo's idea would be perfect. (plus excellent for Smallies in Wash/Sammamish) A drop off is all in perspective. In the salad bowl, 6 in. to 1 ft. (like off a log) might be the major drop off. Same with spoons. Match the spoon size, technique, etc. to the conditions.
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Grasslines, Senkos and Frogs, Oh My.
It's never going to stop raining, the Steelhead are blasting up to the hatcheries, the lakes are full and I'm going go put new line on several reels. It's time to float the boat.
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Wish I could've gotten into this a little bit earlier. I don't have time now...but will get back to it. But I would like to know a little bit more about blade baits and spoons. I've been hearing a lot about these for winter tactics, and frankly, never used 'em. I'll go even further and say I've never fished for bass in the winter, and I think it's time to break the streak. I know this is a Salmonid board...but you have to shake it up every once in a while. Like to see some more action in this section.
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 We need to get some more action in this section!!
Shaun.
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I've always done well fishing plastics slowwwwly, mostly purple worms. Love the tic-tic, crosss the eyes!
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