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