Armed with my bass lures and the few old pike lures I still had, we went to the spot we had a lot of success for lots of jacks and some big perch a couple years ago.
Finding only one wire trace in the box, Rob decided to dare it and tie straight onto a J9 rapala, the lure that took most of the big perch the other summer, I switched lures every 10 minutes, using everything I had from the hard bass lures to the soft lures to a savage-gear grub. after moving up and down to all our spots, with only a handful of bites for Rob, we found someone had dug out a bit right in the bottom corner of one of the bays of the lake. As the wind was coming into the bay , we figured it could produce. It was also a bit deeper than bits we'd been trying, and as it had been a bright day, we thought it was worth a chuck. after 15 mins, I had the first and only fish of the day on a 10cm pearl coloured savage-gear shad on a 6g jighead that I was twitching slowly across the bottom. Not a monster by any means, but it was exactly the type of fish I'd grown to expect from these lakes, and was the target species and size. They are great sport, and normally get a few a session, so I was happy with that.
Going to be trying again over the next couple days after a trip to the tackle shop to get some more traces, and hopefully get some of the magical lures that never failed! Im sure they existed..
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