LAKE SEMINOLE IS DOWN ONE FOOT, STAINED & 50 DEGREES BY MATT BATY

Bass are still biting. There was a tournament won on the lake the other day with 30 lbs! The bass can still be caught in the mud, but the best technique is to find clearer water. You can always rip a trap such as a Spro Aruku Shad in Mudbug Red on shallow main lake grass flats to get bit. The better spots will be the ditches and depressions along the flats. In the thick grass, you need to use braid, a limber rod, and a Lews SuperDuty Reel with a high 7:1 Gear Ratio. Many fish are deep right now also. Look for clearer water in Spring Creek or Fish Pond Drain and fish 20 ft deep with a crank bait and a drop shot. Your electronics are extremely important and locating fish with this deep technique. Lowrance StructureScan is awesome for finding and pinpointing bass in deep water on Spring Creek and Fish Pond Drain. Once you locate a school of bass, throw towards them with a Spro Little John DD in Nasty Shad or a Stanford Deep Diving Cedar Shad in Summer. Usually the bass will bite the crank bait, but if not you can opt for the drop shot. Rig the drop shot on a spinning outfit with 8 lb. Sunline FC Sniper, a size 2 Gamakatsu Drop Shot Hook, and 1/4 Fish Catchin Fool Tungsten Weight, and a Fish Catchin Fool Bobber Stopper. Big Bite Baits makes a bait called a shaking squirrel that is perfect for drop shotting. Use your Lowrance Unit to see the fish, and the drop shot on the graph. Most of the time, you can see the lines on the graph as the fish moves towards the bait. Learn how to use the Lowrance Structure Scan and Down Scan technology with Southern Fishing on the Water fishing schools. [email protected]