Bass-gri-la

[mdej]

Hum. I don't have the skills of many of the members here.

That being said fishing with the current, I would have used a weedless spoon, silver back, light blue main body with a pink tip. I would just bounce, bounce, bounce it all around cover. No real pattern or reason to it, just make lots of noise and get the bass angry at my lure.

[Mike Lennox]

i'd fish it with a big brown wooly bugger"craw" and if it didn't work, i'd head there late in the evening with a black bass popper. I find that's theebst way to get heavily pressured bass out of hiding.

mike

[Moosebunk]

I'd come at the thing in my float tube like I always do from whatever angle I happen to be already travelling when I'm bass fishing. I'd easily hold myself in 50km/hr gusts with the strength of my own two legs. I'd have some hard, spinning type lure and not being too particular as to where, but being precise with the delivery, cast all over those fallen dying vegetations. I like to first get hung up on everything, making for much disturbance. The tree shakes all over, getting all the lunkers riled up. Some scatter away from the tree. When I get the lure unsnagged usually the fish are out from under the tree looking at each other going WTF, and that's when I drop my hardware right on their noggin's and slay them like the float tubing bass pro I have become.

Honestly, fishing fallen trees is soooo 1993, a real challenge for me is a fallen forest lying ontop of a submerged graveyard with a sunken pirate ship or two in the area. And don't forget the zebra mussels.

[big-o]

I realy like the look of those down trees Mike....but I realy find that the cannonball and down riggers rods get tangled in all the branches, so I would probly just by pass it

[Fishboy]

Float-tube in to a distance of about 30 feet from Bass-gri-la. Wait a couple of minutes while holding my position so the fish have a chance to setttle to my apporach.

Cast a bunny leech on a #4 hook beyond the tree and slowly retrieve for maximum exposure. I'd use a 6-wt fly rod, 9' long, 2X leader and 18" of 3x tippet.

Scream like a little girl when I set the hook into the 5lb largemouth.

....or something like that.

[Scum Frog]

I'd be torn between two methods. 1) pitch a craw colour tube and 2) cranks like a shallow fat rap or original rapala.

[Harrison]

Theres a goldmine, especially on a Muskoka Lake.

Years of fishing shallow had taught me to make that one pitch... The one that I think will hold the biggun...

Whether it is a dock, tree, pad bed, Slopmat, undercut etc... Pick the spot you think shes holding on and make that one gem pitch. You can follow up with the "going through the motions" pitches.

For this one pic, I would go with a Jig and plunk it right in the middle of the thickest part I can. I'd hit it 15 times in a day.

Pitching the edges is not a bad choice but my experience has led me to believe that a spot like this will hold a few fish(especailly on a musk.). The smaller more agressive fish will be on the edges and biggun nestled in the crap. Sometimes hooking the smaller will spook the biggun... sometimes not.

I go for the money shot. right up between the boat and dock, or right through the middle of 10inches of crap, over the ropes...etc

Geeze I gotta go south sooner...