Next time your out at the lake. Try Slow rolling a chartrues spinner bait with colorado blades. It should work for you this time of year/ season. Fish it early and late in the day and switch to black at night with with larger blades. Also it's not a bad idea to stick a trail grub and hook. You should be able to get a lot of spin and vibration out of your spinner when winding at slow speeds. If your not feeling the vibe then switch blades. Try some different retrieve technics. Slow roll pause, slow roll pause. Slow roll twitch, slow roll twitch. You can be creative but it won't be long before you finally get a LMB to jump on for the ride in. Now I'm no blade expert and it's definitely not one of my high confidence baits but I have thrown in a fair share this season in Saltwater (Kayak fishing the Kelps for calicos, and bay fishing for spotties/sands)and I have done so with out a lick. So I was wondering what kind of a retrieve you used for these baits in the bay. I was thinking if the tides moving pretty good you should be able to pull them very slowly but I don't think the slow retrieve is as big of a deal in Salt as it is in fresh.

Back in the day I used throw biggest rooster tails they made about 3-4" long at bonita in King Harbor. The bones, bass, mackerel :(, and baracuda would eat them with no hesitation. I even knew of some one who caught a yellow from the short Jetty at KH on a big rooster tail. I was thinking about looking for some those and giving the a try. I would throw crockodiles too but nothing out fished the feather. I remember a few old timers would fish with long rods they called feather sticks that they used to bounce feathers behide a torpedo weight. They would fish up in the bow on 1/2 and 3/4 day trips. When the fish wanted the feather they would bite nothing else not bait or jig. They used to kill fish on those things. There's so many technics and artificial baits that already have been proven to be deadly at catching fish but somehow many of them just are forgotten or fade away as new angling trends appear. Oh well I'm just rambling at this point. Thanks for reading.

JerryG