Theres been many times that Ive seen bass go banannas on damselflies and dragonflys. Last summer I was struggling to get something going, all the while fish were busting everywhere. Well, I finally started paying attention and the bass were eating these little blue damselflies that were everywhere. I tore my boat apart looking for those silly little 3" blue senkos that Id bought for dropshotting, but it was to no avail I couldnt find them, and I never did catch anything.

At certain times of the year, bass turn to insects for a huge percentage of their diet, but it also depends on the particular lake. And Im not talking 10 inch bass, Im talking solid fish. In the real NorCal, two diet studies on bass have shown this. One study was done at Freshwater Lagoon in Humboldt (I think I knew every bass by name in that lake), and the other was in Trinity Lake. In both studies, stomach contents of all fish (up to like 6 pounds) contained a very high percentage of insects. No wonder many, many huge smallmouth are caught each year out of trinity by drifting a tight lined cricket.

Can somebody design a swimbait that looks like a cricket? Just kidding.