The Baitsmith 9.5″ Magnum Trout
This swimbait is brand new on the market and it’s beautiful. This bait screams BIG FISH CATCHER! With it’s slightly open mouth, red gill slits, and highly detailed fins and paint job, the Baitsmith Magnum Trout beats every other large soft plastic swimbait on the market today.

Two New Maverick BH Minnow Colors
Hand poured BH Minnow swimbaits from Maverick baits in Lakeport, California at Clearlake. Detail, epic weedless swimming action, and the ability to keep it’s tail moving while falling or dragging at super slow speeds. We’ve added two new awesome colors: Blue Chartreuse & Baby Bass.
 

We would like to give a “hats off” this month to Maverick Premium Fishing Lures. They’ve been on a serious roll this year, launching a number of new innovative baits.

Some of these baits have been long-time secret weapons of the master Maverick bait designers, and while we know it must have hurt, we truly appreciate their generosity in bringing them to the market.

Located in Lakeport on the edge of Clearlake, CA, every Maverick Premium Bass Fishing Lure is created and tested-by-fire by world class bass fisherman on this world class lake.

Learn more about some of our favorites below:

#1. The Bugly

Why it works: While the Bugly is big and meaty it’s also made of extremely buoyant hand-poured plastic. It has incredible attention to detail, always defaults to a defensive crawdad posture, and it’s something that the fish definitely haven’t seen before. The colors are meticulously dialed in.

Cold Clear Water Tips:
Colors to try - PB&J, Magic Blend with Red Flake, and Swamp Water. Rig it Texas style with brass & glass on 15 lb. fluorocarbon, or use the Jr. as a jig trailer with a Jig Monster Chaos Pro Football Jig. Fish on main lake structure and points, and get into the rocks while intermittently shaking and dead-sticking it.

Cold Muddy Water Tips:
Colors to try - Black/Red Craw, Black & Blue. Rig it with brass and glass on a 3/4 ounce bullet sinker. Drop it to the base of standing timber and shake it on the bottom, pull up a few feet and shake, pull up a few more feet and shake, and repeat this process and hit each “floor of the high-rise” on the way up. If the water is high then pitch to the base of tulles or into grass on a pegged Texas rig.

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#2. The Bass Buster

Why it works: It’s a monster 10 inch stick worm with substance. It’s big profile tempts bass that have started to shy away from the big swimbaits.

Cold Clear Water Tips:
Colors to try - Summer Moss brown, Green Pumpkin Red Flake, Peanut Butter & Jelly, Watermelon Candy. Rig it Texas style with a pegged sinker and fish it like a big worm, or Carolina rig it to drag across main lake and secondary points. Joe’s personal favorite is to rig it with a 6/0 weighted Falcon hook and fish at a snappy pace along break lines on the shore specifically in Summer Moss Brown because it looks like a gopher snake. Gopher snakes are like bass candy – they can’t resist them.

Cold Muddy Water Tips:
Colors to try - Grape Blue Neon, Maverick Mangler. Use all the same rigging techniques as above for clear water.

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#3. The Shark

Why it works: It’s bigger than your average leech type bait and softer too. This is one of the most versatile baits you can have and the Maverick color options are the most vibrant we’ve ever seen - they just light up the water.

Cold Clear Water Tips:
Colors to try -Magic Blend & Summer Moss Brown. Rig this bait with a darter head, drop shot rig, split rig, Caroline, or jig trailer…really get creative with this bait – it’s constantly proving and reproving its effectiveness in new ways.

Cold Muddy Water Tips:
Colors to try - Grape Neon, Ed’s Candy Craw. Use all the same rigging techniques as above for clear water.

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Kent Lake
Fishing is really good right now with a lot of guys reporting fish in the 3-6 lb range on shaky heads, football head jigs I brown with green pumpkin/black flake double tail grub trailers and 6” Senkos.

Bon Tempe
As I write this, lake Bon Tempe has been stocked with trout four or five times already and whilst not known as a bass like, it is this time of year that you have your best chance at catching giants on swimbaits like the 6-8” Huddleston, 6” Basstrix, or my favorite the BBZ-1 slow sink in matte rainbow. This is not to say that you can’t fish for bass with traditional techniques, as drop-shotting small worms on light line around stumps and boulders has produced both smallmouth and largemouth bass, but I prefer Alpine for that kind of thing.

Alpine
On again, off again is the best way to describe Alpine right now as just before each cold front guys are getting largemouth up to 8lbs on Senkos, jigs, crankbaits, and swimbaits, then during the rain on a spinnerbait but once the front passes it gets tough! And the best bet is wither dead-sticking football head jigs on rocky points or drop-shotting in the creek channels off main lake points and throwing small cranks on light line along the break lines

We just put up 4 new jig colors for Fall/Winter. Please check them out!

Chaos football jigs: http://www.jig-monster.com/jigmochfohej.html

Mayhem flipping jigs: http://www.jig-monster.com/jigmomafljig.html

Happy Fishing!