its ben a wile sence i have been on here so heres a good question for everyone whats your favorite lure/plastic to use my favorite is the dare devil spoon
spinner baits are my "go to" lures. I don't have much patience for plastics though I know they are very effective and I do always rig one of my rods with one. If the spinner baits aren't working I'll go to the worm, but that rarely happens.
Those 5" senkos have been killing it for me this year and last as well. Black, black with blue flake, and watermelon have been the top producers for me. I bought some weirder colors to experiment but they haven't been doing that great...
This time of year, it's so hot that the big boys will feed at night. Try topwater, jointed jitterbug when it's dark out. Retrieve slow and steady; listen for the splash and feel for the weight. Have already caught some 19"+ this way.
If you look at my photos from last year, there's a bass with two black spots on it next to my 22" truck rim. I caught that in the manner described above around this time of year last year, retrieving a black jitterbug barely a few feet off the shoreline.