Bait Heavy
How can I catch largemouth bass that are in an overfished, heavy pressure lake?
I fish at a lake that is so over fished, you barely get any bites. I need some ideas of things I can do with non-working baits, to make the bass want to fight for it. Another words, how can I change-up my baits to make them work. Example, take a worm and tie a knot in it and fish texas rigged. I don't think this would work, just an idea of want I;m looking for. Serious answers only please! And I only use artificial bait, no real worms, or minnies.
I like this lake because it's within 15 min of my house. If I had another lake closer I'd go there.
Slow down.
Another one of my tricks is this - you say that you use senko worms. Get the ones w/ about the last inch and a half flat. Cut small circles in the flat part in the middle in a line from the base of the flat part to the tip. Once you've done that, (you should be able to get about 3 holes), cut down the middle from the tip to the base. Then you've cut the flat part down the middle from the tip to the base and each side will have 3 half circles in it. This causes a different style of vibration while you're reeling and I'd also be willing to bet that no one else on your lake is doing that.
There's all sorts of things you can experiment with. Try wrapping bubble gum around different parts of the worm. Take a razor blade and bisect the worm from about a half inch past where the hook goes in all the way to the end. if that doesn't work, rotate it 90 degrees and bisect those two halves where you have 4 pieces of worm.
I've heard of people who will put cheerios on the hook between the eye and where it's buried in the worm. (the exposed part of the hook will have like 5 cheerios on it).
Use a lizard and when you put the hook through the nose, run it down in there about an extra inch. Then the soft plastic nose will actually be about 3/4 of an inch on the line. Make sure you've rigged it to float and you can cast it into some lilly pads and every now and then, lift up on the line and it'll look like the lizard is picking its head up to look around.
These are just some ideas right off hand. The best thing to do is to get creative. That's another bonus of soft plastics. They're inexpensive. You can literally destroy one trying to figure out new ways and you're only out 25 cents. Get a holepuncher and a razor blade and go to town!
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