Submitted by Reel Bass Adventures

Date Fished: 8/9/2008
Water Temperature: 84
Water Clarity: 1 foot

Fishing this week was excellent this week. Early morning saw an excellent topwater bite, with poppers and Baby torpedoes working well around grass edges during low tide phases. High water produced bass with grass frogs or buzzbaits worked over milfoil and hydrilla. Once the topwater bite slowed, we continued to catch bass with Sweet Beavers in green pumpkin/chartreuse, black/blue, or brown/orange fished around wood on 3/8 oz. bullet weights or in grass mats with 1-3/4 oz. weights. Punching heavy grass mats is tedious work, but results in some huge bass. Another pattern that is producing well is with a 3/8 oz. chatter bait in brown or black with a Berkley Chigger Craw trailer worked over grass mats. Darker color chatter baits out produced white or chartreuse/white all week. Mann's Baby 1 minus crankbaits worked around hydrilla edges continues to catch bass. Zoom finesse worms in dark colors fished around creek channels during low tide phases catches both numbers and quality bass that have relocated from the grass as the tide falls, and if that fails to produce, a weightless white or dark green/lime soft stickbait is a proven method for catching pressured bass.

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