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the bays. The bass will hold on these until they feel like traveling into the back to feed on the shad, baitfish or bluegill. When you know the bait is in the back of the bay or cove and they are not visible the bass are around and in the mood to feed and the bait fish know it’s time to hide out. The biggest key is to follow the forage and the largemouth and smallmouth will be close by. during high skies fish the light breaks in these areas where the forage is present. Stay slow and deep and look for the schools of shad - you are fishing for five bites, it is tough. if you are fun fishing, net some live shad first thing in the morning and fish those on the same place you fish artificial baits you will get ten bites to every one bite on live bait that time of year. Consider these baits when fishing the desert lakes . For topwater, use Chuggers, rio rico in Klicka Shad (the new hot color) & Manahl’s rX. For walking baits, try a Spook, Vixen, Gun Fish or Sammy. For a jig, try ¾ and ¼-oz football in browns, greens, purples with Yamamoto twin tail or Single tail trailers in four or five-
inch size. For Senkos, use a four or five-inch in greens, browns and milk. You can fish them wacky-rigged, nose weight, or no weight, depending on the depth you want to fish. For Jerk baits use lucky Craft in shad colors. For crankbaits, try normans, Jackall, in shad and crawdad colors. For lipless cranks, use a rat-l-trap or lucky Craft lV in chrome and shad colors. For worms, use a drop shot with light line, a 12-inch leader in colors Folkestad Special, oxblood light, and aaron’s Magic, in a four or six inch size. try a texas-rigged roboworm in browns, greens, and purples with 1/8- to ¼-oz slide sinker and for a swimbait, try small sizes in shad colors and be sure to use Shaun Bailey’s new swimbait.
Mike Folkestad has been inducted into the Bass Fishing Hall of Fame for 2013. He is a Professional Bass Angler sponsored by Daiwa, Ranger, Mercury, Motorguide, Lowrance Electronics, Roboworm, Angler’s Marine, and Seaguar Fishing Line. He is the host of TC Sports Report News and the co-host for Tami Curtis’s TV Show Fish’n 4 FUN!
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