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As the summer roles
on and the water levels began to drop and the mats and lillie's appear. This is when the frog does its thing, I
guess you can say its the specialist of top water fishing. If its an explosive bite you want nothing beats the frog. During middle
to late summer in Texas, the banks of any lake, river, or pond is going to be teaming with frogs of all sizes and the
big bass love this. There are several types of frogs baits out there, for me its a must that it floats and
has realistic legs. There nothing like making a long cast to the top of a grass mat or in the middle of a lilly
patch and the water just explodes, if that doesn't get the juices flowing than nothing will!!! The top water presentation
is no doubt a great way to work banks and structure during the morning and after noon bites for some hart pumping
action, but once the sun is at high noon and the bite slows, so should you....
Slow_ It_ Down
Worms, Flukes, and Craws. Those are three of my go to bass baits when things get hot. When june hits
and the water temp gets to be around 70 to 80, lots of the time if I go to my favoret spotin the morrning or late afternoon, theres
a good chance im going to have to share the water and the fish with a number of other anglers. Some think bass dont bite in
the middle of the day, some just simply dont want to brave the heat, I can understand that, but I'll let you in on somthing, they
do bite in the middle of the day sometimes all day. While your sitting on the couch watching fishing, im standing on the bank
of some lake throwing a cream worm carallina rigged with a foot and a half 10lb leader, looking for the big bite. Not
only do i have the lake to myself but there biten. Deppending on the visuall structor, remmember people we are fish from
the banke no fancie duhikies to show me the coture of the bottom, but with a good pair of polarized glasses you can spot stuture almost
as good. As I was saying, deppending on visabal structor, for instince, the lake I fished last week was about
70% grasses 30% sand and rocks. I tend to go with soft plastics with light wight to attract bass during a hot summer
day.
Line choce and leader leigth is realy based on the conditions,
but 12lb test and a 10 lb leader works for me. With the light setup I can feel the bottom and any interested fish checking
out my bait. With this rig, you can use a number of soft plastics, worms, craws, or creaturs. I throw a 7in
worm of any color or style, you should use what works for you. This is not a serch technique like the fluke or soft swim
bait, but I know if these fish don't respond to the worm, I would need to make a change and find the active fish with
the fluke or swim bait. If the fish are not in there normal haunts I'll find them with the serch baits and after i do so then
ill swich to the worm and pick up the not so active fish wich in some cases are bigger and more abundent.When using a fluke
or a bass assasin stiyle baite. I paire them with a wide shanked jig head and use a slow retreve with a slite jerk of the
line every now and then to intice them to hit. Try different retreves intill you find what the fish want. I catch a lot of
fish useing theas tequneccs. I hope some of this info will help you the next time your on the water. remember
use sunskrean and continue to get your line wet @ urbansportfishing.net.
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