The last couple of weekends I found that trolling for bass has been the most productive.  Early morning I like to troll in 8 to 10 feet with a minus lure that dives about one foot and as the sun goes over head I go into deeper water (20 to 30 feet) and use a deeper diving lure that goes 6 to 10 feet down.  The shallower lures closer to shore.  While trolling on my son's pontoon boat with my daughter-in-law (see photos) our score within an hour was three bass each. I took our friend Terry and her two sons and daughter out for a couple of hours on my boat (I have included a photo of my boat for those who have asked me what kind of boat I use - a Lund fully loaded).  We trolled and had a great day catching bass with the kids (see photo).  I spent one evening in my favorite cove  and I decided to only use a top water lure.  Within an hour's time I had eight nice size bass.  Bad part of story is that I threw my favorite top water 'chugger' into about two feet of water where I saw some activity and sure enough a fish devoured the lure and dragged it to some bushes, my line snapped trying to reel him in and alas the lure never surfaced.  I waited for quite awhile and it never did come up.  I had that 'chugger' for at least twelve years and it caught me a lot of nice bass even though I have another like it, it's just not the same.
'til next week............................................good fishing!!!!!!!!!!!

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