Are you sure you didn't have spawning shad? I ran into that on Mittry Lake
back in March. Shad were busting up and down both banks were I was fishing,
and there was nothing chasing them.
In open water I would have tried a popper. Then gone to a sub surface shad
imitator like a Kastmaster in blue and chrome or a shad pattern crank bait.
If that didn't work I would probably have tried dropping wacky Kinami Flash
natural shad color stick worms through the bustting shad.
I don't mind sharing that with you Andrew. I think you're one of the guys
who helped me figure out that sequence of fishing in busting bait fish for
bass last year when I asked. Of course if there are striper in the area you
will catch them too using that pattern.
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"Brad Coovert" wrote in message
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I was casting a Bill Norman Middle N crankbait (in white with a lt
purple back)
Right there is your problem, you were throwing the wrong color and size
Norman!
Where was the ol' standby? ;-)
Seriously, did YOU not try a spinnerbait? It's like your second bait
after a
crankbait, is it not? Fishing a spinnerbait over and in the weeds and
ripping
it free from time to time might have gotten a bigger bite. Maybe slow
rolling
the bait over and around the deeper weeds.
I would have also had to try a Crigged plastic in the grass beds. I
know
it's
a pain in the rear to do it in the weeds, but it can pay off. I've
fished
in
the wind in weeds and got away with using a 3/8 oz. bullet weight on the
Crig.
I could still cast and feel the weeds and the hangups were a bit less.
I was really surprised the spinnerbait didn't work. I used it during the
time I was using the buzzbait, cause there were fish breaking on shad all
over the place in the cove where I launched.
Any good tricks for holding the worm on the hook in the weeds while
C-rigging? I don't mind the weeds, but having to adjust the worm after
every other cast gets a little frustrating... Maybe I need to get one tha
floats a little better...
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