Steel,
Ok skip the struckture thing for now.
lets just say Your working a sand bar with an opening ant there is Yeah a rip pulling Your plug out.
You could start with a bomber.
You got to find out How the fish want it.
so You fan cast and work the bomber erratic. stop drift slow, twitch ect.
When You find how the bass want it , then that is the key.
keep in mind most the time the water is only 3 to 8 feet deep in most cases. so they will mor than likly be in the upper water.
/top 3'/
its a matter of presentation. You got to get a rythem down as how Your plan of attack is with plugging.
A dead drift may be how they want it, Just like alot of bait here on the cape as to say suspended.
Then on to a straight retrive and then move to a stop and go retrieve and then on to modifyed retrives as in dead twitch reel fast then slow ect.
The parimount Key here is after You learn how to master the art of negotiating a plug in rips bars, then comes color choice and when to swap out to another type of lure.
You need 3 things
1) top water could be a popper a danny a pikie or prop worked on top even a bomber or red fin If Your real good.
and unweighted rubber. pikes
did I say needle
2) swimmer that will work the top water column
as in bombers, Yozuries, megabaits ect (plastic) darters
diving dannys or A40 type lures , surfsters and the cowboys by Beachmaster
weighted rubber , castmasters tin ect Lead heads with 6" rubber
cant tell You haw many 30lb bass on those, killer here.
did I say slow sinking needle
3 working the bottom.
tin, in heavy surf and nasty weather reach for this 1st kastmaster and yes they do catch fish at night and they do get large
< My best on a 3 oz is 40 lbs! >
lead head in 3/4 oz or 1 oz rigged with 6" GS rubber.
plus the 9" and 13" has its time and place and thats what You need to learn.
I tell You this from exp You need to buy pearl white, yellow and pink! and then work in the other colors.
bucktails and some plugs You have tuned to dive deep.
And the brain to know how to keep these on the bottom and plugs working deep, its a feel thing.
I can talk till Im blue in the face But exp is Your only key to becoming good at WHAT and WHEN and WHERE and COLORS to toss.
olive and gold swimmers ,,Yellow,, pearl white,, Blue silver are good for sunny days.
on cloudy days I will toss Blue and silver, black and gold, black gold silver, black, yellow, and try white with pink stripe but not for long on that one. green and musterd yellow (im out
)
At night I toss mostly Bassmaster
Needles under the cover of Dark.
I toss plugs that have Hue to them and it does make a differance
But You can Buy from the builders here and the co,s like gibbs and habs. I feel You need them both any way for the type of water You may be working..
If there is a plug or a how You would like to work a body of water, bar hole rip ect or a color of a plug and when, I would Be more than happy to help You.
sorry for the spelling Im not a friggen poet Im a real Time fisherman and Proud of it
P.S. I use to sissy stick and still good for 70'
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