Interesting Discusion.

[R.D.]

I know there was a Poll on this one time.....and I've seen it discussed in Lounge atleast once.......but heres mine.


Your given the situation to fish a body of water you are not familiar with. You are only allowed to take 4 rods with you and enough tackle to fill a Denny Brauer 3700 series tackel bag (holds about 6 3700 boxes). There are 2 larger zip-pockets on the Bag that can hold plastics or anything that cant fit in 3700 boxes, & 2 small pockets for misc.

Given very little about the lake your going.....you'de be fishing in mid 70's to low 80's water temps.....Clarity is from marginally stained to Murky in back water areas.....visibility at best is possible 2-3 feet in areas. there is some vegitation and little submerged structure. There are a couple flats and a couple main lake areas you can fish that are transition areas to deeler water.....in which the deepest portion of such lake is not more than 20-22 feet deep in main channel. there are only 2 areas that offer Rock and one if the damn itself.


What 4 rods would you take?
Filling each 3700 with one type lure what woudl you put in it?
I know you'll take plastics but what type would you put in?


OH yeah......I forgot to add........you only have 4 hours to fish and is from 6pm till 10.

[H2O_Fowl]

I wouldn't worry about fishing too deep as the lake itself isn't to deep. Fish probably won't be any deeper than 10-12 foot at most especially with stained water.

I would take: Eakins jigs and paca craw trailers, spinnerbaits, buzz frogs/buzz baits and some creature baits (bruhs hogs, wooly hawgtails) along with a few crankbaits (rattle traps and minus 1's for sure). 4 bait caster rods, 7 ft with line from 20lb big game down to 14 pound big game.

I would concetrate on the points with vegetation and submerged structure in 12 ft of water or less.

I could fit all of this in 1/2 the bag you described.

[Hydrilla Gorilla]

Sounds suspiciously like you're preparing for a week night tournament on one of those small lakes in NE.

[H2O_Fowl]

[R.D.]

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Hydrilla Gorilla &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Sounds suspiciously like you're preparing for a week night tournament on one of those small lakes in NE.</TD></TR></TABLE>

who said anything about Nebraska

[sclark]

Last weekend i hit Maryville Mo. about the same condiditons there.

Top water bite until about 7:30 / 8:00 -
(2) on Black Buzz Bait,
(1) on Zara Spook - (4) blowups

Then probed the standing timber until noon with:
(1) on Black/Blue Jig
(1) on Green Pumpkin Senko
(6 or 7) Chartrusse Pepper Finesse worm

Threw Spinnerbaits / wigglewarts around the damn until about 2:00 with no bites at all.

So i would load up on top water baits (maybe a platic frog also ). then load down with soft plastics in senkos, finesse worms, brush hogs and trick worms.

then maybe two spinnerbaits and two medium diving crank baits.

4 hours is not a lot of time to experiment, stick with your strengths and your goto to baits.


-JMHO

[Hydrilla Gorilla]

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by sclark &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> stick with your strengths and your goto to baits.


-JMHO

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Good advice. And you are a good jig fisherman, so I think I would recommend you throw a jig

[Hydrilla Gorilla]

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who said anything about Nebraska </TD></TR></TABLE>

Oh, my mistake, Iowa... Not too many of us would drive a long way to fish for 4 hours.

[R.D.]

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Iowa... </TD></TR></TABLE>


AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTT........ ...............TIMES UP.......Bob does NOT win the Knob Creek for life Grand Prize...........sorry and try playing name that lake again.