All ready to go!

[keithdog]

The company I work for decided to close their doors for this thursday and friday. So I decided to take advantage of it even though the air temps are going to be nearing 100 degrees. Planning on hitting the lake early tomorrow and friday. I should be on the water around 3:45AM. I have 7 rods rigged ready to go. Topwater is almost always productive early on in this lake. Here is what I am starting out with. Heddon Rattlin Spook, a 5/8 oz Jitterbug, 3" Xcalber popper, Buzzbait, Strike King Caffeine Shad jerk bait, a 3/8 oz spinnerbait, and a Strike King t-rigged Game Hog which is like a Brush Hog. Trying something different with the Game Hog. I have a floating black wooden bullet shaped float pegged up tight to the Game Hog. Planning to pitch it on top of floating vegitation and around other cover and use it as a floating weedless topwater. I figure the portion near the head will float while the body will be beneith the waters surface. I'm betting this will get some attention. At least I hope. I'm also hoping the shad bite will have started by now. So far I havn't seen any evidence of it untill now. Thats what the popper is for. I really nail'em on that popper when the bass are busting shad on top! As the morning passes, I'll start cutting back on the topwater baits and replacing them with a couple crankbaits. And the Game Hog will be replaced with a 3-3/4 inch Craw Papi rigged to probe the bottom beneith the weed canopy. That has worked really well for me once the sun comes out strong and the surface bite dies. If the spinnerbait bite fails on me, I'm going to try working a soft body swimbait rigged on a swim bait jighead around the deeper edges of the weedbeds. I'm betting by the time I leave tomorrow, I'll know exactly what I will need for friday mornings outting and I'll be able to cut the number of rods in half. Thats the plan.