natural lake follow-up question
 

A couple of weeks ago, I asked for advice for fishing on a small natural
lake in Michigan in late August with no electronics. Here's a summary of
the responses...

Natural-looking crankbaits, Pop-r's, Plastic worms of various colors
(T-rigged and C-rigged), shallow-diving cranks, tandem spinnerbaits over
weeds, double-prop baits, black buzzbaits, black spinnerbaits, soft
jerkbaits of various colors.

Seeing as that pretty much covers my whole tacklebox :-), I thought it
couldn't hurt to ask the opposite question -- are there any particular
lures/techniques that you would, as a rule, NOT use at that time of the year
in that area?

Nate

Nate, what lakes do you fish in Michigan?

I would assume that natural lakes here in NY are not unlike those in
Michigan, and I wouldn't hesitate to use any of those lures you mentioned,
since I've caught August bass on every one of those lure categories.

"NH" wrote in message
...
A couple of weeks ago, I asked for advice for fishing on a small natural
lake in Michigan in late August with no electronics. Here's a summary of
the responses...

Natural-looking crankbaits, Pop-r's, Plastic worms of various colors
(T-rigged and C-rigged), shallow-diving cranks, tandem spinnerbaits over
weeds, double-prop baits, black buzzbaits, black spinnerbaits, soft
jerkbaits of various colors.

Seeing as that pretty much covers my whole tacklebox :-), I thought it
couldn't hurt to ask the opposite question -- are there any particular
lures/techniques that you would, as a rule, NOT use at that time of the
year
in that area?

Nate

NH wrote:
A couple of weeks ago, I asked for advice for fishing on a small natural
lake in Michigan in late August with no electronics. Here's a summary of
the responses...

Natural-looking crankbaits, Pop-r's, Plastic worms of various colors
(T-rigged and C-rigged), shallow-diving cranks, tandem spinnerbaits over
weeds, double-prop baits, black buzzbaits, black spinnerbaits, soft
jerkbaits of various colors.

Seeing as that pretty much covers my whole tacklebox :-), I thought it
couldn't hurt to ask the opposite question -- are there any particular
lures/techniques that you would, as a rule, NOT use at that time of the year
in that area?

Nate


I personally wouldn't rule out anything, and would definitely keep an
open mind. Let the fish tell you what they want. If you ask 10
different fisherman most likely you will get 10 different answers as to
what they would throw in a particular instance.

If the word came down that the fish were eating crayfish on rocky
secondary points, I would be probing those points with a tube, spider
grub , or crankbait.

Tom Monsoor caught almost every single one of his legal fish on one bait
in the FLW this year, and made the FLW Championship.

So I would never say , I will "never" throw this particular bait at this
time of year. There will be times I won't throw a bait in a particular
situation, but those are more common sense things such as a crankbait
through solid mats of weed on the surface, but I will work one along the
edges of that same mat in the morning and evening.

I think you get the point. YOu could realistically cover almost any
situation with a spinnerbait, just using blade changes and different
weights and skirts.

I have been told by people on this board to just keep it simple, and
truthfully that has paid off for me big time.

Chris

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:05:28 GMT, "NH"
wrote:

A couple of weeks ago, I asked for advice for fishing on a small natural
lake in Michigan in late August with no electronics. Here's a summary of
the responses...

Natural-looking crankbaits, Pop-r's, Plastic worms of various colors
(T-rigged and C-rigged), shallow-diving cranks, tandem spinnerbaits over
weeds, double-prop baits, black buzzbaits, black spinnerbaits, soft
jerkbaits of various colors.

Seeing as that pretty much covers my whole tacklebox :-), I thought it
couldn't hurt to ask the opposite question -- are there any particular
lures/techniques that you would, as a rule, NOT use at that time of the year
in that area?

Asking a bass fishermen what not to take with them has to be the
toughest question anyone could try to answer. "Hmm...what should I
not take? Well, let's see, there's that box of huge black wooden
Musky jitterbugs. No, wait...A jitterbug is pretty close to a
Pop-R...which he said was outstanding on natural lakes and he did say
black was a great color if the weather turned nasty...Better take them
Musky jitterbugs just in case and maybe the artsy-fartsy colored ones
too just in case..ya know he is from Indiana. Now, let's see...how
about those Mann's 30+ deep-diving cranks? " So this is pretty tough.

Best thing to do is to say: "Ya can't take your boat...but have
to fish from a leaky 14' canoe"...what is the absolutely bare minimum
ya would take with you to fish this natural lake up in Michigan?

My answer: Take one quart-sized Freezer bag and add 1 Pop-R in
chrome/blue, a half dozen Touchdown worms in purple/grape. Add 1
"top-secret" shallow-diving natural crankbait; 1 1/2 or 3/4 oz. tandem
spinnerbait with a charteuse skirt, 1 #11 or #13 Black/Silver Rapala,
1 1/4 oz. rattletrap AND maybe a Nippididdee if the wind is going to
blow hard.

Don't forget: 2 rods n' reels, 1 paddle, 1 cold drink (preferably
a gallon milk jug filled with water and frozen solid) and a float
cushion (or life jacket if you aren't a good swimmer or thats what the
law requires where you're at) ya can sit your butt on. I also like to
take a camera and some pogey bait (munchies) and.............

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Thanks for all the tips and advice. I will be putting them to the test next
week, and I'll try to remember to bring back a full report.

Nate H