Quote Originally Posted by Thermodude View Post
Thanks Moveon...........Im looking forward to getting back out there later this week. With more rain in the forcast that should help keep some color in the water and the surface temps cooler. As of yesterday it was 82.4 according to my dial. Most of the other boats that I saw were casting soft baits slow...............the Husky Jerk proved to be the thing for me though. One thing I do want to add, bass were busting the shad balls throughout the morning hours and we tried topwater baits over and over with only two strikes..........that kinda surprised me.
I can remember a time down at KY lake in the back of this small quiet cove where bass were busting shad all around my boat. I threw about everything at them that I could think of and didn't get a hit. Some times they are so focused on one type of food that they ignore all other. I would think that bass busting a shad ball would fall prey to a shad looking bait that was falling down though the water column at a slow rate. But you have to watch your line carefully and have a tight line to feel a hit. Some times they can inhale the bait and spit it out so fast that you never knew that you had a bite. This must happen to me a lot unless I fish down wind and have the line tighter by using a heavy weight. But then I can't get the bait to go down slowly like a dying or injured shad might.

I see a lot of shad ball on my side scanning sonar but my screen is hard to see in the sunlight and my eyes are not so good anymore. I can't always see the bass below the shad balls in the SI screen shots. Only later when I bring the SDHC card into the house and put it into my computer and play back some of the images on my computer can I see the fish better. I should have a tent over the top of my boats cockpit to put it in the dark so that I can see the SI screen easier in the dark. I already have a sun shade over the screen and a small umbrella over the cockpit but that's only helps a little bit in bright sunlight.