I try to power early as long as the bite last, then switch to finesse.   Which pretty much around here means largemouth early, then finesse for spotted bass.

Good Luck to you, Get!

Not sure how you've been fishng, but if you're fishing shallow and not getting bit at all, you may as well finesse or "power finesse", out a little deeper all day. Has something drastic happened to the lake to make it so tough this time??

Since the water was up above normal pool recently those fish have pulled out with the falling water mostlikely and it may take fishing out deeper, or at least at the normal pool depthes to put together some sort of a pattern for the day.

 

Well guys, thanks for the tips and comments.  Sunday was.......  well it's over.  Only 3 fish total were caught. No one caught more than one. I threw subtle and not so subtle buzzbaits on two different rock jetty breakwaters. I tried fishing a long tapering point with a great drop into deep water where I have caught a few before . I used a football jig, a deep crank, a carolina rig, and a pop-r. I fished with the boat on the bank and with the boat out deep throwing up on the point. I c-rigged, deep cranked, football jig, and shakey headed on channel swings fishing both the bank and the channel drop itself. I fished several old docks with a tube and a 10" worm in an old marina 6-10 ' deep. I fished 10" worms, salt craws, 1/2 oz. jigs and shakey heads in isolated wood between 3 and 12' deep.

Some of these locations I visited 2 or 3 times. The water was a wee bit warm , 84 in the morning and 86 or 7 in the afternoon.

Today I was the statue.

Still had a blast though !

Fun,  thats all that matters.

Did you throw a DD22 or other deep diving crank on some main lake rock pts?  This time of the year that is my favorite in big lakes.

Well, I have 4 or 5 DD22's and a couple other brands of Deep divers but the one I was using was the Lucky Craft 3.5. I just purchased one the other day for the first time and I wanted to see how it worked. So far I liked it but was unable to find something compelling to attract me more than the DD22.  I did try it some on a channel swing/main lake with a point.
 
That is a technique that I have very little experience at but little by little I am growing more fond of all the time.

Any hints? How to fish em, where to fish em, when to fish em ?

 

3 fish total!?,  Wow! 

Get, are you get'n an 8 now?! 

A Lowrance HDS8, like Jig Man's.

Myself, I would love to have one, or a Humminbird Si model!

I'm thinkin' he already had a Bird SI.

SHHH   LOL !

Methinks maybe I better get to learning that thing. I'm one of those guys that tries not to fish  deep. 

 

I wish I had a HDS 8 but if I put one on my 89 it would look like a camp house with 60 inch plasma in it. I don't know why I would need one because if my outboard isn't dragging bottom I'm fishing to deep.

yall going up the NW-ish appendage or the NE-ist appendage....up the crick? I was looking at the Bing maps again the other day and looked at your listed home water and another smaller lake, I think, south and east of Perry but I forget the name of it ..Perry is an interesting looking lake, from the map, but you can't tell much about the characteristics of the lake just by that. After looking at it though,  I was wondering if you ever fished those oxbow/back water looking places well up into the creek runs off the main lake. You can't really tell much about them on the maps because it won't zoom in real close.

Yall have a good trip!

P.S.-I thought about you and those UV plastics you use the other day. I read a couple short articles on UV the that day but I didn't mark them. One of them was about a "fool-a=fish" product that gave some detail about, the product itself, UV light, the color bands and depth ranges. If I can find it again I'll link it here.

Got the package Steve!  Those are some really nice looking baits, and some good colors for around here too. Can't wait to try them out!

Thanks Steve!