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Watershed lakes for fishing

Watershed lakes are easy to pattern and offer excep­tional big bass potential. They’re the best bass fishing has to offer in a small package. These lakes vary in size, from less than five acres to 1,500 and more, but they contain the same array of struc­ture found in the major reser­voirs: submerged cover, humps, channel drops, points, vegetation and timber to name a few.
It’s important to pay atten­tion to the slightest change in depth. A two- to three-foot drop in a small wa­tershed lake with an otherwise slick bottom is a major struc­ture in that lake. Always re­late the size and amount of struc­ture to the size of the lake, and never overlook seemingly in­significant structure in these lakes.
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Fishing worms

You can feed your worms fruit and vegetable scraps and starchy scraps, like bread, oatmeal, and pasta. Do not feed them too much acidic foods, like citric fruits, coffee ground and tea bags. They do best with a pH between 7 and 8. You can use egg shells to balance the effects of coffee grounds, orange and lemon peels. Make sure that the eggshells are cooked before giving them to the worms.
Never feed your worms meat, poultry, dairy products, or salty food , like potato chips. These will create odors and bring in bugs and insects,fly's and such.
Your fishing worms should eat about half their body weight each day. Take this into consideration when you are deciding how much food to add to the fishing worm box or container. Fishing worm article.

Tri-tone spinnerbaits

Two or even tri-tone spinnerbaits work very well when fished deep or near the bottom, while those fished near the surface, above the bass work better if they create a silvery baitfish look.
My decision whether to use round blades or willow-style blades is based primarily on water clarity and sunlight. If the water allows less than one-foot of visibility, it's an automatic round-blade or tandem round-blade configuration.
If the water clarity is one foot or greater there's a little sunlight, and I'm fishing the bait within 2 feet of the surface, then the choice will be willow-style blades for the added flash and sleeker profile.

Walleye and worms

Tipping lures with live bait is a deadly combination because it presents walleyes with the scent and taste of real meat. Casting a jig tipped with a minnow, leech or a piece of a crawler takes walleyes anywhere. Another proven combination for casting is a weight-forward spinner with a crawler hooked onto the hook. For trolling, tip the treble hook of an F-6 or F-7 Flatfish with a crawler.

Top water bass baits

Topwater color should match in a general way that of the dominate forage in your lake. But the color should more closely match than of baitfish that bottom-dwelling creatures. Therefore, a silver topwater would tend to be a better choice than a brown one. However, at night , use a black topwater, since black is the color that stands out most dramatically against the night sky to a bass looking upward. Chrome is an excellent choice in many reservoirs because it matches the colors of many baitfish, including alewives and shad. Sometimes a bright secondary color such as red or orange adds to the productivity of the lure. Smallmouth often prefer outrageously colored topwaters, including chartreuse and orange.

Jigging spoon for bass

For most bass fishing situations, a 3/4 ounce spoon is best, but heavier spoons can be used to help you stay on top of deep fish in wind or current.
A single hook will catch as many bass on a jigging spoon as will a treble hook, and is less damaging to fish you wish to release. A single hook will hang up far less than a treble hook.
Spoons are "designed to be lost", so bring several with you as rocks, stumps, etc. will often create hang-ups, and the lures may be impossible to retrieve in deep water.
To retrieve a spoon that is snagged, move the boat directly over the hang-up and jiggle the rod up and down a few inches at a time. Eventually the weight of the spoon may work the hooks free
Use a wire cross locking snap when fishing a jigging spoon.