matt baty - Seminole

Lake Seminole - 6 inches below full pool, stained, 76 degrees
 
Bass Fishing - Good.  A local bass tournament was won with 25 pounds - 5 fish.  Fish are biting topwater in the morning hours extremely well.  Fish a Spro Dawg 125 walking bait on main lake grassbeds.  If fish are striking in the grassbeds, throw a white Big Bite Baits 3.5" Top Toad up in the grass on braided line.  This bite is short-lived unless you have some cloud cover.  With cloud cover present, keep fishing the Spro Dawg and the Top Toad because they will draw strikes from big ones.  If the sun comes out, a good pattern that is working now is to find the old deeper grasslines at the lower end of Spring Creek that have not yet reached the surface.  Once you find these grasslines, fish them slowly with 2 baits.  Either a Texas-Rigged Big Bite Baits 6" Kreit Tail worm, or a Spro McStick Suspending Jerkbait.  Fish the Kreit Tail worm in green pumpkin with a 4/0 offset shank Gamakatsu hook with a 5/16 oz tungsten lead with Sunline Flourocarbon.  The best worm rod I have found for fishing deep grass is a Falcon 7'3" Cara T7 Amistad Special.  Fish the Spro McStick Jerkbait on a 6'6" Falcon Bucoo Spinning Rod with Sunline Flourocarbon.