
Been bass fishing my whole life, moved to Barrie and can’t even catch one out of simcoe, the trophy smallmouth bass fishery
Edit: just because the swim bait is in the picture doesn’t mean it’s the only lure I use, it’s just a confidence lure that I throw on every outing.
It makes no sense to me, a Charter boat gets me like 10 smallmouth bass in one day one being 7 pounds.
Yet when I fish the same lake with Senko’s, Swimbaits, crank baits, chatter baits, even micro lures that I can’t even cast with my rod.
We aren’t allowed to fish the marina but even when I do fish it, the floating docks don’t have bass underneath them, the extremely sparse weeds don’t have bass hiding in them.
Trying to jerk bait for schools of bass in open water also come up empty handed.
The drop offs are so steep that I never have to worry about being too shallow, but the dropoff still doesn’t hold bass.