a whole are eating a six to eight-inch forage base. When he is targeting larger bass, or he is seeing large baitfish, he opts for larger, custom lures made by small shop manufacturers like Rago or other garage manufacturers. These baits can measure from 10 to 13 inches in length. “I’ve had a couple of instances at Clear Lake where I was throwing the SWaver 200 and though I could see feeding activity, I couldn’t get touched,” he said. “I saw several large hitch clear the water trying to escape, switched to a large bait and started getting bites. I just needed to mimic the larger forage to get a response.”
COLORS
Allen said that in his mind, there are two ways to approach selecting color; he tries the age old adage of matching the hatch, but also goes completely the opposite. “I always try to match the prevalent baitfish
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“You have to experiment with the best on your own lakes, but these truly are tremendous lures that produce some giant bites.”
as closely as I can because I believe that truly giant bass are not easily fooled by imitations,” he said. “That being said, if I can’t almost completely match the hatch, I go with completely off the wall and go gaudy.”
For him that means trying bright white and chartreuse colors, or even a bright pink model. He said that he can tell that bass are not attacking a prey item on these colors, but seem rather curious. “I don’t get really vicious strikes on them,” he said. “They tend to kind of mouth the bait as if they are trying to get a
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