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Hey guys, Matt Allen here. Welcome back to Tactical Bassing. Today we're talking about the top five baits for bass fishing in the month of July.
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The month of July is an amazing time to be on the water. Things have heated up and the bass are aggressive. There are two distinct groups of fish. You've got fish that have remained shallow. They're up in and around the cover. And then you have those fish that have moved offshore, oftentimes deep, but not always, but they're out on main lake structures. And you can sort of pick your poison, which way you want to go. Do you want to target shallow fish? Do you want to fish for deeper fish? It's up to you.
So, with all of these top five videos, I often struggle to narrow it down to a true five. July is the hardest month of the year for that because we have these two distinctly different groups of fish. So today is actually going to be a top six video. To make matters worse, we really want to make sure that we incorporate everybody because no matter where you fish, east coast, west coast, north, south, whether you're on a bass boat or an aluminum boat or a kayak or you're standing on the shore, you matter. And we want to help you guys fish effectively.
So, I've got the top six techniques specific to having some mobility being on a boat or a kayak or anything like that. I have a different set of five for the shorebound angler. And today, I'm going to start with the shorebound guy. Now, of course, these techniques will work for anybody. So, pay close attention because if you hear something in here that seems like it applies to your fishery, insert that. Whether you're standing on the bank or a kayak or a $100,000 boat, that's irrelevant. But after we're done with that, we're going to jump into these top six techniques. You know, things like crankbaits and swimbaits and top waters and baits that are going to require some mobility to fish them effectively.
But beginning with the shorebound angler, we'll just fly through these. Number one is a soft jerkbait. Now, these five are in no I'm looking to make sure I really did get it down to five, and I did. I'm proud of myself. These are in no particular order. The first one is a soft jerkbait. The reason why I like a soft jerkbait is that it is an effective bait that you can fish when you're standing on the bank. Whether you are on a pond that's full of grass and laydowns and debris, lots of snags, or you're on a crystal clear highland reservoir, this bait can be adapted to all of those different circumstances. But if you take a soft jerkbait, this is the 5-in whiplash shad, and you put that on a three wide gap hook, you can fish that over and around virtually any cover, anything that's going to be in front of you. And you can fish it a very aggressively, twitch it, and work the rod and get it to dance. And you can get fish to jump out and react to attack that bait. And this is a great month for that. The fish are shallow because they want to feed around that cover and that is a bait that will get them to feed, that will get them to react and have that core response. That whiplash shad is an amazing tool.
Number two is the soft stick bait. I mean, it goes without saying, right? A Yamamoto Senko is the greatest stick bait of all time. Uh, if you were only going to own one ever through the decades, it has been green pumpkin black flake. But in recent years, there have been some additions. And I'm not suggesting that everyone needs four different colors of Senko. I'm not. But what I will tell you is that these four baits will cover literally every situation a bass angler could run into on the shore, on a boat, anywhere in the country, from north to south. Anything that you could face could be done with these four. And in the video description, I will link everything that we talk about today in the order that we're talking about it. We'll start with Shorebound Anglers top five baits. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Including our favorite colors for each one.
Now, I'm not suggesting that a guy with a backpack needs four colors of Senkos on them at all. You don't. Pick a favorite and you're good. But I'll tell you what these are for. Whether you have a backpack or a 250 horsepower motor behind you, and then you can decide if it fits your situation. Green pumpkin black flake is the number one all-around Senko color of all time. Clear or murky water, it's just a very natural color. Now, last year, another color came out. It's called Sungill, and it begins with sort of a green pumpkin base, but then you have this more golden tone to it, and it's got gold, green, and purple flake in it. And it just does such an unbelievable job of imitating a bluegill. Whether you are a pond guy, a guy fishing around grass on a large southern reservoir, anywhere they're eating bluegill, that Sungill color is incredible. When that came out last year, we did a review of that color right after it came out and boldly said it was the best Senko color to come out in the last decade. That is true. That thing is unbelievable.
Now, two more. Tim and I got the opportunity. Most of you have already heard this to design a Senko color with the Yamamoto. And it was originally just going to be like a one-off color for the Bassmaster Classic, just for fun. They they were like, "Hey, you guys ever think of a Senko color that we don't make?" And we're like, "Uh, yeah, yeah, we have." Well, you know how Tim and I are. We can't narrow it down to a top five. We certainly can't narrow it down to one color of Senko either. They're also not just some one-off classic run. These are available now. This is Tactical Shad. A true ghosty, natural shad colored Senko for clear water situations. Think the original natural shad color. Not the most recent rendition, but the old, old version of natural shad. And then we took that and we took some of that modern flake from like an electric shad uh type swimbait, and we combined all of those things into Tactical Shad. We really dialed in the size of the flakes to get the exact amount of color where we wanted it in that bait. Your true clear water natural Senko for any situation. And then we went to work on this one. Tactical Twilight. Black and blue is the base here, but black and blue is a it's a big fish color. But it can be such an overwhelming, bold, obnoxious color, and you just don't have any confidence in it in a lot of different situations. So when we did Tactical Twilight, we were looking for the most natural, subtle black Senko ever made, so that you could fish it in those big fish situations, murky water situations, but you could also throw it in tanic water, that stained tea-colored water, and it wasn't too bold and too bright. So it's this swirled, twisted black and blue, more like a hematoma [snorts] inspired type color. And then it's got fine red and medium-sized purple flake in it just to help those colors pop in that more stained water. Those four colors, again, you don't need them all. I don't know what fishery you live on. I don't know if your water's tea-colored. I don't know if your bass eating bluegill or shad or maybe it's just a place where you don't know either. But one of those four will meet virtually any circumstance you could ever face.
So, number one, soft jerkbait. Number two, Senko. Number three, a shaky head. A shaky head is such such a good tool. We did an underwater shaky head video this spring where we compared all these shaky heads, and it was pretty obvious that some of the most common baits on the market, some of the most popular baits, when you see them underwater, actually are not superior to a lot of the other baits. Uh, and it's obvious when you watch underwater footage which baits are superior. The baits that sit up better, they have the most movement, and they get bit. One of the most natural of all of the baits in that video. One, it looks amazing. It stands up so well, and it flows so well in the water, but it also comes in some of the most natural colors from Missile Baits. It's the 6-in Magic Worm. That blue back secret color. If I was just going to gamble on one, that's the one I'd be gambling on. Put that on a shaky head, and you can fish that in and around all sorts of cover. Again, when you're shorebound, sometimes you're fishing rock, sometimes you're fishing grass, sometimes wood, totally depends. You need baits that you can fish effectively in multiple types of cover and you can get them through that cover without getting snagged all the time. And then we also don't want a bunch of extra components. So like the 5-in Senko and the 5-in whiplash shad, they'll both fish on the same three super line hook. No problem. One hook for two different baits.
Next one up, let's go with a jig. The jig is an incredible tool. I use it in the same places that I'll use a a uh shaky head, but I find that sometimes I get a lot bigger fish on a jig, even when it's a downsized jig. So, when you're shorebound, you don't want to throw things that limit how many bites you're going to get. You don't necessarily want to throw a 12-in glide bait because you'll hit your couple of spots and now you're out of water to fish, right? So, we want baits that can get bigger bites like a jig where it will draw a bigger bite, but we don't want to throw such a big jig that we limit that we're going to go out and catch some fish. You don't want to go out and stand on the shore and blank. So, this jig right here from Nomad Lures, and this one's all beat up because I caught a pile of fish on it last week. This guy. This is the Wee-Bit Jig. That little Wee-Bit in like a quarter or a 3/8. That's a 3/8 right there. That is a money little jig. And I pair it up with a very different trailer than I normally use from Missile Baits. This is the Mini D-Chunk. That's this guy right here. Just a chunk style bait. And then it's got these two little kicking legs on it. I like some movement in the warm water in July. But we're not going to take this bait and hook it like a traditional chunk. This Wee-Bit Jig is so small that we just take it and we thread it on as if it was a full-size craw and we pop out the side, slide it down, and check that out. That is a mini jig with a stout hook in it. I'm able to throw this really effectively on 10 to 12 pound line. I don't need 15, 17, 20 lb line to set that hook. It's a smaller jig, but again, jigs get big bites, even downsized jigs. So, you can upsize your catch with that package without having to carry an extra rod with you. You can fish the jig and the shaky head on the same combo. And frankly, it's the same combo that you're throwing these other two on as well.
Last but not least is a bait to cover some water. That would be a small swimbait, a paddletail swimbait. Specifically, the Exone, the 4.75 Swammer. That's a bait that's going to let you cover water and look for some bigger fish without being so big that you won't catch the smaller fish. Now, because you're on the bank, and again, because I don't know if your lake is full of grass or not, I recommend a weedless rigging. But I also want some flash because in some fisheries you're going to be in a place where there's a lot of shad and you need to get the fish's attention. In other fisheries you don't have that at all. You don't need the blade. But if we start with this this BKK underspin right here, this is a four. It's a perfect fit for that swimbait. It's got an underspin blade on it. Lots of flash if you're around shad, but it's very, very easy for you to remove it if you are not around shad. Actually, I have to actually focus on what I'm doing here for a second to do that. There we go. Now, it's just a standard weedless swimbait hook. So, we can take that blade and put it on or off depending on your circumstances. But that underspin weedless swimbait is your number five to get some bigger bites, to cover more water, and to not be getting all snagged up.
Now, let's set that aside. Shorebound guys, you matter. Tim and I grew up standing on the bank. We started out bank fishing, went to float tubes, went to kayaks and a 10-ft johnboat and then a 12-foot johnboat and then a 14-foot johnboat. Tim went into a bass tracker all before I went into a fiberglass bass boat. And then on we went from there up to some of the best boats with the best components on the planet. But we have never forgotten nor have we ever stopped one fishing on the bank and two fishing from aluminum boats. We still blast fish out of aluminum rigs every year. It's one of my favorite things to do as you guys know. So everybody matters. We want to help all of you fish effectively.
Now, for the guy that is on a boat, you've got more mobility. Let's jump into the top six baits here. These again are going to be in no particular order. Number one, top water. July is awesome for throwing top water. Now, the type of lake that you're on is going to impact the style of top water a lot, whether we're talking about a walking bait or a frog. Okay, let's start with a walking bait. The walking bait is an incredible tool because you can draw fish up and you can get them to react and attack. And in July, they're still early July in particular, they're still really aggressive. As the more and more of these dog days pile in and it just gets hotter and hotter and hotter, they get more and more lethargic, but it will change a lot as we go through the month. But the walking bait is such an awesome tool.
The first bait up for me is this guy right here from Mega Bass. This is the Giant Dog-X. This over the last few years has become my favorite top water bait. My favorite walking top water bait. Uh, and it's it's an old bait. Old, old, old bait. That's the Giant Dog-X. And it is not giant whatsoever. This bait is so old that at the time that it was designed in Japan, this was considered a giant top water bait. Isn't that wild how things have changed? Now we're throwing big old giant baits. Actual giant baits, but that used to be a giant walking bait. Today, it's little, little, but the Giant Dog-X gets bit in conditions when nothing else will. Listen, depending on where you are in the country, some people have been fishing top water since January, February, if you're in the deep south, and then everyone's piled in ever since, right? So, your fish have seen some top water this year. The Giant Dog-X is more subtle and natural than just about anything else. This bait shines in these conditions. Slick, slick calm. When it's a mirror, I don't know that you can beat that bait. It's an incredible tool. Once there's big chop, there's rollers, I put it down. I go to other baits. But when it's calm, early morning, shallow water, I want to catch those big ones shallow without spooking them. The Giant Dog-X draws those big bites without overwhelming and driving the fish out of the shallows. It is hands down my number one. Uh, and again, last year Tim and I designed some colors for this bait in collaboration with Mega Bass. We've had the opportunity to do that quite a few times through the years with different baits and different brands, things that we really latch on to that are making a difference in our fishing. We're like, man, if this was offered in a different color, it'd be even better. So, we designed some of those with Mega Bass, uh, that bone color there, spotlight shad, juvie, gill, right? Just smasher colors.
Now, I said when you get chop on the water, you got to set it down. You need to know when to throw it and when to stop because when it gets wavy, you know, if the wakeboard boats come out, that's not your bait. You need more drawing power. From Rapala, this is the Jowler. The Jowler, that cupped face on it. This thing throws water. B, very aggressive, very obnoxious, throws a ton of water and will pull fish across distance. When I'm out in the afternoon on the Tennessee River, in the morning, I'm throwing a Giant Dog-X. It's calm, it's subtle, I get the big ones on it. In the afternoon, the yachts are out, the wakeboard boats are out, the wind has kicked up, the chaos is happening. I do way better on a Jowler. I can still pull those fish up. And then one more, depending on your fishery. If you're in one of those places where a lot of people are throwing top water and they've been throwing it for months now, then you need to know that that's your conditions and you need to be different. From Duo Realis, this is the Pencil, but it's the Pencil Silent. And again, I'll link everything in the video description. You don't need to take notes. It's all in the video description below the video, links straight to Tackle Warehouse. I'll give you favorite colors and everything. But this bait is dead silent. Once fish have seen a top water a lot, they'll come up and look, but they're cautious and they won't actually eat it. If that's the situation, if you're the fourth guy down the bank today throwing a walking bait, or if you're the 3,000th guy this season throwing a walking bait, a silent bait can make a big difference for you.
And then again, you know your fishery. You know, if you need to be frogging because you've got junk in the water and you can't throw those treble hooks. If I'm frogging, there's two. The Swamp Lord has become my number one frog over the last two years. Uh, I've built so much confidence in this frog. Unbelievably soft. And great presence. It's a large frog, but it's so soft. My hookup ratio is incredible. I have caught absolute giants walking that Swamp Lord. And I'll throw it in heavy cover. I'll also throw it in open water and just walk it near cover, but I still want that heavy braid to horse those big fish out. That Swamp Lord is an amazing tool. If you are on a fishery where you need a frog to be able to get in and around the cover, but it's really clear or it's just a more finesse-y fishery. The Jackall Kaera is untouchable. That is an amazing frog. Look at the size difference between a Swamp Lord and a Kaera. Huge difference. I have caught absolute giants on both of these.
All right, top water done. Out of the way. Number two, let's talk about like flipping and jig fishing, right? Like heavy cover fishing. It just depends how heavy your cover is. The jig, we can take a pitching jig. This is a half-ounce Dirty Jigs Pitching Jig with the 4-inch Exone Muscle Back Craw. That jig, that's my all-around jig, man. We can take that. We can throw it in wood. We can throw it in rock. We can flip it in reeds. We can flip it in grass. It goes everywhere. If I could only have one jig in one color to go anywhere in the country, year-round, every day of the year. It's a half-ounce Dirty Jigs Pitching Jig in the Go-To color. No question. That jig will work every day of the year. Now, if the cover on your fishery is so thick that getting that jig through is a problem, then we're switching up, right? We're muscling up to a Texas rig. And some of the biggest fish that I catch every year, the last few years since I moved east, I've gotten more and more into flipping heavy cover. I just every year I catch monsters doing it. I flipped a 10-pounder this an actual like scaled 10-pounder. Not a nine-pounder. We rolled up a 10-pounder, flipping this bait right here. The Missile Baits D-Bomb is an incredible flipping bait. And when I'm flipping that really heavy cover looking for giants, through the years I've used different hooks. I have the last two years I've settled on that Owner Jungle Flipping HD. That thing is a beast. That is the strongest of all the flipping hooks that I have tried. So, when I know I'm around a giant, you know, a 3/4 ounce to a 1 and a half ounce tungsten weight pegged to that Jungle HD to a Missile Baits D-Bomb, and I'm punching cover. But again, if it's loose enough that I don't have to get through the cover, then I back off to a jig because the hookup to land ratio of a jig is better than a Texas rig. A Texas rig, you have a big hook with a big weight out in front working. A jig pins itself and you have a weed guard that's crushed and that puts back pressure and helps keep the hook in the fish's face as opposed to weight out front pulling the hook out of the fish's face. So if the cover's thick, Texas rig, but if you can get away with it, jig to get more of them in the boat. Both are amazing tools.
Next up, again, these are in no particular order. Swimbaiting. I love throwing a swimbait this time of year. Almost exclusively I throw boot tails. Uh, and it just depends on my situation. If I'm fishing deeper water, you know, Tennessee River type stuff, ledge fishing, this is the Baka Burrito, the 5-in. That bait specifically, the Tactical Shad color. We massacre with this thing this time of year. It is a It's only a 5-in bait, but it's very tall. So, it's much larger than most four, five, six, even some seven-inch baits. Uh, its presence in the water is large. Heavy vibrating tail. Uh, this is a silicone bait, so it's it's not cheap. You will pay for a handmade silicone swimbait, but the number of fish I catch on them is crazy. We do so much work with these when fish are offshore and schooling down deep, you know, set up on ledges or outside points or gathering on main lake rock piles and humps in the summertime. I do work with a 5-in Burrito. Such a good bait.
If the fish are shallower, you're going to see me turn to one of these two baits. This is from Mega Bass, the 6-in Magdraft. From Z-Man, this is the 6-in Swag LT. Two similar profiled baits, very different applications for me. The Magdraft is what I fish when I want to slow roll. Okay, it's a belly hook treble. It is incredible how well a Magdraft works. This bait is so effective that so many companies have come up with a bait in the category to try and get a slice of that pie. The Magdraft is its own category of swimbait. Now, there's like 20 different brands that have tried to make something similar. A 6-in Magdraft slow rolled on the edges of cover is incredible. Incredible. White back shad, um, albino pearl shad. You just got a handful of colors that work all over the country. They're so, so effective. That bait will never be replaced for me.
Now, the Swag LT, the advantage for me with this bait, this is a line-through bait. So, this I'm tied direct to the nose. This is line-through. Most of the time, I don't even use it line-through to that treble hook. I have no use for that because I really like throwing a Magdraft. Uh, what I do though is I line through to the jig hook. So, if I want to fish this thing, if I'm fishing deeper than about 10 foot, I'm throwing my Burrito. But if the fish are shallower than 10, but they're glued to the bottom, you know, your lake, there's lakes where like, for whatever reason, they just don't want to come up. They won't come up 3 feet off the bottom for your bait. I don't know why, they just don't seem to. The Swag LT with a jig hook, I can fish really effectively in the shallows on bottom. So, Magdraft over their head, Swag LT glued to bottom with a jig hook. Both incredibly effective. The three of those baits together covers the entire water column.
Next one, the shaky head. We'll keep this very simple. I talked at the beginning of this video about that underwater uh shaky head video we did, and there were baits that just were such obvious standouts. Here's two of them for you. Uh, my number one bait that I throw in the summertime when I want to catch them on a shaky head is that Exone Deception Worm right there. And I throw it in a June bug color. I have come to just have so much confidence in this. Everywhere I go, June bug in May, June, July, August. It's incredible what a June bug worm will do. It just butchers them. Put that on a Canterbury shaky head. Uh, I throw the Missile Head a lot as well, but they've been out of stock lately. Hopefully they're back in stock, but if they're in stock, I'll include a link in the video description to that head as well. But that Deception Worm is truly incredible. And then from Hog Farmer, the Utility Player was another worm that stood out in that video where you it was just undeniable how good that worm was flowing and moving in the water and it matched my experience and my fish catches over the last year with it. Just such an effective bait that so many people are overlooking. Again, some of the most popular worms on the market. When you look at them underwater, you go, "Oh, they were the best worm because they were the first worm, but advancements have happened since then, and people are missing the boat." That's all I'm saying. In fact, you know what? I don't think there's even going to be room to link that underwater shaky head video in the video description because of all these baits. But if there is, I'll link it right up at the top for you. Like right under our merch, a link to that underwater shaky head video because it's an eye-opening one if you missed it.
Next one up will be the minnow. A jig and minnow. Such an effective tool. It's undeniable how well they work. They blast fish in the summertime. If you've got fish that are outside deeper, be that on creek channel bends, island tops, suspended around trees, out on ledges, throwing a jig and minnow is such an effective tool with or without forward-facing sonar. It exploded because of forward-facing sonar, but it is not a requirement to have it whatsoever. Three different baits, three different size classes, the smallest being the standard Freeloader. The Freeloader has proven itself to be one of the most effective minnow baits on the market. We catch so many big fish on a Freeloader. Just shaking that thing in the water column. It's incredible how well it works this time of year.
Next one up from Hog Farmer is the Stroll Shad. Not to be confused with the Spunk Shad that you use on the back of a ChatterBait. That's the Stroll Shad right there. Smooth-bodied, stretched, longer tail, more action, incredible roll and incredible tail movement out of that 6-in Stroll Shad. And these bigger baits have this one on a head. This is the Dirty Jigs Guppy Head in a five. The five is incredible for the 6-in and 7-in baits. A five hook sounds big. What people don't realize is that those are not standard sizes. One company's five is another company's three is another company's seven. It's ridiculous. This five is not huge. It fits so well in that 6-in bait. Fish is even better in a 7-in bait. That five Guppy is amazing for summertime large minnow shaking. And the last one in the 7-in from Yamamoto is the Hinge Minnow. The Hinge Minnow has that true rock to it. I mean, it really has got that look uh that people have come to love. Those three baits are all very different. We've got that Freeloader doing its little dance. We've got the Hog Farmer with its full twist and tail movement. And then we've got the Hinge Minnow with that true rock and that tail back there flapping. Very different profiles, three unique sizes. It depends on how big the baitfish are that they're chasing in your fishery, but you probably know the answer to that already, and you know which one you should be throwing.
Last but not least is the deep crank. The deep crank is an incredible summertime tool. They have worked since we were all kids. They still work today. The difference is that because of the amount of fishing pressure on the water, some of the baits that we used to throw have lost effectiveness. They're either too loud or too large or too something, right, to those fish and the fish turn off of them, especially by the middle of summer. Sometimes they'll work really well after the spawn as fish are moving out, but then that effectiveness just sort of wanes after that. What I found is that I'm staying incredibly effective by going to baits that are a little more subtle. Uh, these again are in no particular order. I just happen to lay them out this way. This is our Tactical DD. This is the bait Tim and I designed for cold water wintertime speed cranking. We've talked about this for many years. Specifically designed to catch giant bass in cold water. We were more shocked than you when people started catching giant summertime fish on it. So shocked in fact that every color that we designed was for clear cold water fishing. We had to make more colors specific to summer. We didn't even have them. That was not our intent. It is a happy accident that this thing crushes big ones in the summertime. But it does. It's amazing. The bluegill color, the chartreuse blue. They're amazing summertime tools. We do so much damage with them all over the country. It is a tighter-actioned, more natural profile, and that's what's getting you bit when other baits won't work.
Now, that said, even when I'm looking for a more subtle bait in July, I am often looking for the most bold colors. On the days that they won't eat them, I throw that really natural stuff, but more often than not, this time of year, you're going to see me throwing a variety of chartreuse and blue. Whether the water's clear or not, the fish, their metabolism is so high in July, they are so bent on feeding that if you throw a bait that's too obnoxious, like too loud, too large, they won't eat it. But if it's in the right profile, if it's in the right sound or vibration category, then it just comes down to them seeing it from a distance. So, chartreuse and blue is one of those colors that can be seen from really far away. And I feel like that's what makes it so effective. Same with Sexy Shad. That's just a really bold color that the fish can see from farther, so more of them eat it. It's really effective.
This bait from Rapala is the DT20. Depending on your conditions, the DT20 or a DT16, depending how deep you need to get, but the DT is a very subtle bait. It's got a little bit of sound there, right? But not much. Way more subtle than your big traditional oversized cranks uh of yesteryear. These baits are getting deep, but they're smaller profiled and more subtle vibrations and sounds.
And then last but not least from Berkeley, this is the Dredger. I fell in love with this bait almost 15 years ago on Clear Lake when it first came out, or at least when I first latched on to it. I did so much work with a Dredger. It was when we were throwing a 10XD all the time and that giant Lucky Craft. Remember the Lucky Craft Magnum? It was a huge deep diver. We would catch so many fish on those at Clear Lake and then it just started waning. The problem was you needed to get super deep. Those fish were off of Shag Rock. They were off of Henderson. They were in the Narrows, right? And you needed baits that could get down to those fish and those baits would do it. But when I discovered the Dredger, this is a 25.5 and this is the 20.5. I mean, we're talking deep divers and they're small compared to Giant 10XD or the even bigger old Lucky Crafts. When I started being able to get those same depths in a smaller bait, I started throttling fish all over again. And I had sort of gotten away from this bait for a few years. And back in May, I picked it up and put some work into this bait this year and really got them good on it again and remembered back to the I, this is just who I am. I cycle through baits. I run on like a two or three-year cycle where I just am in love with a bait and then all of a sudden I'm like, "Yeah, I've caught enough fish on that. I'm going to throw something else and I just move on." I've I've always been that way. But that one cycled back in for me and I've been catching them. And that Dredger. Whether you need to get super deep with the 25.5 or 20 foot, the 20.5, incredibly effective baits, bold color or really bold color, that's what you want to be throwing in July.
Guys, this is such a fun month to be out there. We covered a lot of gear. Uh, and it's different if you're a bank angler or you've got a bass boat or or some other boat where you can move around and really target fish from different angles. So, I really wanted to take the time to cover it well because this is a month where you can catch a lot of fish before we start sliding towards that early fall transition where things start getting weird, fish start getting smaller, it gets a little tougher. This month, you can wreck shop. So, don't waste it. Get out there and catch those fish. Whether you want to fish up around shallow cover or you want to go out and fish effectively out deep, you've got options to do it. Whether you're a power fisherman or a finesse fisherman, there are a lot of ways to catch these fish.
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