I’ve had at least 5 or 6 customers tell me that they are catching lots of bass in the 2lb-6lb range on 6”-7” watermelon seed Senkos, 6” Fat Roboworms in Aaron’s Magic, Morning Dawn, Margarita Mutilator, and Lite Oxblood with small redflake, ½ oz White and Smoke double willowblade spinnerbait, and Castaic Sunfish Swimbaits in Slow Sing. They are Texas rigging the 6” and 7” Senkos with a 5/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook and no weight.

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Phoenix lake is still on the spawn to post spawn transition and I’ve had reports of large bedding fish on the back side still going at it. I’ve also had reports of huge cruisers that are almost impossible to catch, but that’s nothing new up there. One of my customer’s caught a couple of fishing the 3-4 lb range and hooked and lost a big female estimated to be 5-8 lbs. He got his fish with a Chartreuse Pepper Finesse Jig and 10 lb fluorocarbon.

If you want to catch those big cruisers then you need to get there at dawn and stay off the bank carefully pitching an unweighted wacky rigged 4” Slim Senko on 6 lb fluorocarbon. Use translucent colors with black flake or no flake, dead stick the bait for minutes at a time interrupting only with the slightest twitches followed by more dead sticking. Bring coffee so you don’t fall asleep.

In the afternoons try 4”-5” Senkos, 4” Robo Worms on a dropshot rig, and double spinnerbaits slow rolled just under the surface parallel to the deep side of shallow cover during the afternoon. The more windy it gets the slower you retrieve the spinnerbait and the less wind you get the faster you retrieve it.

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