The Spoonpluggers Forum

I will add one thought, and that is to take a pass occasionally through the shallows to keep ‘em honest. With a dying back deeper weedline, the fish can either go deeper/suspended or shallower. Buck wrote that in less than 8-10 ft of water, cover becomes the adjustment to offset a bad situation, and...

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Absolutely - IMO. For example, one structure situation I have here is a roadbed that runs across the lake and is anywhere from 1’-3’ above the basin depth, and pretty much 9’ to 12’ on top. Some days I catch them trolling Spoonplugs at 2-4 mph banging the road; some days a deep crank cast and retrie...

I'm going with lowland also. It has main basin depths of 50-60 ft, and a main river channel depth to nearly 100 ft. Lots of humps, ridges, deltas, and bars that extend out well into the lake, and to the river channel in many instances, plus a lot of man-made features. Overall, there's just a lot mor...

Yes, both ways as long as they’re moving - IMO. Easier to sit on the spot and wait for them to arrive, but many articles Buck wrote mention catching a final few on really long casts as the school moved away (back). Or even situations like the Florida breaklines where there really wasn’t a casting po...

I’ve had Livescope for 3 years now. I debated with myself quite a bit in the beginning, as I am somewhat unhappy with where the technology has taken the sport, but like many, finally decided the learning component outweighed my opposition, in general. So I went with the smallest, least expensive uni...

Thanks for the detailed posts, John. Really enjoy reading these observations. A couple questions have come to mind based on them if you have a minute. Now that you’ve become good at seeing and interpreting your Livescope, has it changed your perception of the bass population in your lake? Since you ...

A lot of our reservoirs used to be filled with it, but as John can tell you, its public enemy #1 in the eyes of weed sprayers - lol. We still have some waters with it though, and I’ve fished that stuff for about 35 years now. Early in the year, Rat-L-Traps, sp’baits or Chatterbaits slow rolled over ...

I swear that Buck took this example right from the 36 bridge that crosses Raccoon Lake in Indiana. Because that is where I used to catch them many moons ago. The migration route is to the left side on Raccoon and on the southwest corner of the rip rap. Last time i was there, there was a pretty good...

I’ll throw one out that hasn’t been mentioned. Being midsummer, it could be a light condition positioning them, with the fish being located on the shady side of the piers, and the movement not being a good one that only has the fish to the top of the channel breakline and adjacent to that first brea...

BBZ....... I got asked to leave his site ( kicked off) because I tried to argue that everything they were teaching, was simply Buck Perry information regurgitated into their own words, with Bill's own little slant to it. Done this many times over the years with others in the boat. Kenny Hyde did it...

CHAMP wrote: ↑Fri Mar 10, 2023 4:11 pm Can't remember who it was but some BIG BASS EXPERT was caught snagging his fish.

Mike Long

Big Bass Zone. Bill Siemantel. Like I said before, I keep waiting for something to come along that could help me. So far, other than increasing the size of the baits you fish with, nothing has really given me much to be excited about. Not done with either of the books so maybe something will happen...

Good thoughts, John. I've read the books and articles, and studied most all of the big bass chasers and their theories and explanations over the years. I find them all very interesting, and not contradictory to what Buck has written and instructed us to do. In fact, my conversations with Paul Prorok...