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[ukefish]

Hula hoppers shallow have really been getting them in south central mankato area. Got a 19 3/4" right at dusk two days ago.

[RuddyDuck]

After getting the lawn mowed finally, I made it out last night for 2hrs and couldn't get alot to work! Tried deeper first with cranks and t-rigged worm, but didn't find any there. As it got closer to evening I moved shallower and picked one up right away on a Yum dinger. Continued shallow along the bank with nothin again for awhile. Tried jigs and dinger. Came upon an area where they were breakin on top and got one decent 19incher on a DT Fat1 to salvage the night. Saw several more breakin around me, but couldn't get a one. Tried frog, dinger, topwater and couldn't get another hit. Still beats an evening working around the house!

Anyone else been getting out in between all this rain?

[EBass]

I tried last night for a couple of hours. Right away I got a 16" in 7' of water with pockets in the weeds. Couple cast later a 12" bass and couple more casts a small pike. I'm thinking it's going to be awesome, but that was it except for a wee bass towards dusk. All hit the chatterbait, nothing on topwater, cranks, tubes, or jigs. 3 bass and 1 pike. Gnats were horrible, but better than sitting inside.

[cruiseforever]

Had a great morning today using buzzbaits. 2-3 ft. of water on the windy side.

[Lals]

Got out Monday and Tuesday. Monday started slow as I was working shallow where all of my action had been. Did pick up a 19" and 18" shallow. Moved to a deep weedline (9-12') and picked up 12 good bass (nothing over 3LBs) in an hour before the rain on a T-Rig Brush Hog. They were stacked in that area. I heard later from others that they were having good action on the deep weed lines as well.

Yesterday was interesting -- Metro lake -- I had a new fisherman with me and had him use a straight tail jig worm and he had a lot of action. Our best spot was a main lake weedy hump with a ton of pan fish. On this spot, I tried swimbaits, crankbaits, flukes, swimjigs, spinner baits, top water as the pannies were on top and the bass were busting 'em (prop baits, walk the dog).... didn't get a sniff. Only finesse tactics worked, jig worm and wacky worm got 90% of the fish... did get a few with a T-rig Tube and Brush Hog.

[M1dwestF1sh]

Crankbaits! I've been out a lot lately and have had most of my luck on crankbaits. I've done very good with shallow rapalas and deep diving DTs and shadraps.

[Bryan P]

I have been fishing for bass up in the shallows pitching hoola poppers and other topwater baits. Nothings funner than some good topwater bass fishing

Even better out of a kayak. Check out my vid from my last outing.

http://youtu.be/gFeacMhrrrc

[bucketmouth64]

My wife and I were on a lake and caught nearly 50 bass in the shallows(4-6') on spinners. We had a slight scare while fishing in an area that had floating bogs. Area not normally accessible because of low water, but due to high water we went in and caught bunches of bass. Great area for fall duck hunting! However, on the way out a large bog blocked our only way out from the wind! Never thought this would happen. Luckily, there was a ever so small opening between bogs that we powered thru with the motor and we had to use an oar to move smaller bogs. Couple things were going thru my mind like I might have to get out of boat, but the bottom was soft, so that would not have worked. And the other was to call sheriff and try to explain what happen and see if someone could come out and move the massive bog.

[bassfshin24]

Anybody been getting into a Deep crank bite yet either on rocks or deep weed edges. I haven't really been out much lately

[serpent]

I got into some on rocks in 14'. Good times.

[Todd S.]

Not me, but only been out once locally in the last two weeks, I bet pretty soon though. It seems as though with this high water and slightly cooler than average temps the curly leaf is far more prevalent this year and not even close to dying off, which in my experience usually pushes fish deeper around the healthier coon tail and/or cabbage

[bassfshin24]

Ohhhh I like to hear that Serpent! By far my favorite way to catch deep summer bass.

[serpent]

Me too. Biggest was 5.5 lbs.

[bonebaby0]

Won an individual tournament and big bass on Clear Lake (near Forest) this past Saturday and caught them cranking a main lake weed edge. 4.68 big bass and 18.12 Ib sack of 5 fish. Fun day - only have 7 bites but they were the right fish. Main lake deep fish are starting to set up.

[RumRiverRat]

Whacked them this morning on a Vixen, Sammy and Xrap Prop working them parallel to the weedline in 8 to 12 feet of water.

Also caught them on a 6" Hollow Belly Swimbait rigged on a 3/8oz jig.

Was on the water at 330am fished until 9am.

[Double]

Won an individual tournament and big bass on Clear Lake (near Forest) this past Saturday and caught them cranking a main lake weed edge. 4.68 big bass and 18.12 Ib sack of 5 fish. Fun day - only have 7 bites but they were the right fish. Main lake deep fish are starting to set up.

Great fish, they look even bigger on my computer than they did on your phone last night! Now we gotta figure out a day for you to show me how it's done! Haha!

Go Brewers!!!

[RumRiverRat]

Drop shot has put some donkeys in the boat for me recently.

[Craigums]

What kind of set up are you using. Weight size, depth fishing ect

[RumRiverRat]

I am not a drop shot guy by any means.

Using a 7 foot Med hvy St Croix Premier Spinning Rod, 3000 series reel, 10lb Fluorocarbon, 5/16oz tungsten tear drop weight, 1/0 VMC spinshot hook, Ring Fry in Sour Grape.

Fishing a lake that is pretty green, 2 to 4 foot visibilty.

Fishing a rock point with thick clumps of scattered coon tail.

Found a spot on the spot the size of a bath tub that if I hit it I would get bit on every cast. It is a pile of bigger rocks with an abrupt weed to rock transition that goes from 8 to 10 feet of water.

I would make a cast, feel the sinker hit the bottom and then a hard Thunk from the fish.

I would catch 7 or 8 fish for every 10 casts, then the school seemed to settle down.

I would throw a 10 inch worm and a Jig and not get bit throwing to the same spot. Fished different parts of this point and would get bit om the worm and jig, but the size of the fish was nothing like the ones I was getting on the dropshot.

I would work other areas of the point with the drop shot and get bit occasionally. After letting the good spot rest for 15 or 20 minutes I could pick up the drop shot and catch another 7 or 8 fish in 10 casts.

All the fish on the good spot were 17" or better. I caught 14 that were 18" or better, 6 of those were 19" or better and 3 of those were 20" or just slightly over.

I probably caught the same fish multiple times. The fish in this lake are crazy aggressive, I caught one that had a 5/0 EWG stuck in its throat. I was able to remove it rather easily using the technique that was posted on this forum.

Long story short I was using a big bulky non typical drop shot bait because of the water clarity, also using a bit heavier tackle than most because of the thick weed cover I was fishing near.

[leech~~]

I pulled two very nice pig Bass out of 42'-45' feet of water about 35' feet down, deep diving for Walleye's last weekend. And a nice limit of eye's as well. Wish we could post stringer pic's!

[RuddyDuck]

A 1/2oz N/S jig and craw trailer fished around weed edges and weed humps have been producing some fish for me of late. Mostly in about 8-11ft of water. Tried a shakey head and worm when the jig slowed down and that got nothing. Picked up the jig again and got a few more. So much for finesse that time.

I'm still getting a few on lipless cranks when the wind is blowing. Mostly fishing that along the shallower weedlines.

[JoeTC]

I've been using a combination of shakey heads and crankbaits on the weedlines for the last few weeks. More numbers on the shakey head including a 30+ fish day on Friday and some better quality on cranks. Today, however, I got into a school of real nice fish on a shakey head including a 4.75 and a 4.3. All came on a small inside turn in 12-15 fow. Lots of fun on light spinning gear.

[RuddyDuck]

Nice fish.

I was out this morning and today the old Texas rigged worm was working. Purple/Black YUM ribbon tail was the favorite in any where from 8-14ft of water. Biggest was 19.5in. Tried to get some going on lipless cranks, but that only produced one. It sure is nice fishing during the week, you get the hot spots all to yourself!