natural lake follow-up question

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