I was at my first port of call at 4:00am with the hope of catching some early morning bass, but when I got to the only spot available during the summer months I was surprised to see 5 or 6 other bass fishers. All the time we were there only to fish were caught…and they were both caught by me [insert big headed smilie here 
]. Needless to say, I heard several complaints about the Mi Gook guy (if only they knew…lol).
I tried boozebaits for a short time also with no luck – lol
Here’s the 2 of the morning, both caught on one of my own spinnerbaits.
Since the fishing was kind of poor here, I moved to another lake to check out the water levels, and caught a few fish while I was there. Then I went to a third lake to do the same. The great news is that all the lakes I went to were complete full again and mostly in good water conditions and the grass that grew while the water was low is now holding lots of bass – Froggin’ time again
Here’s some dinks from these 2 lakes.
Now for the really great news – There is a lake closer to my home that I have suspected has bass in it for some time, but every time I have tried fishing there I have always skunked and concluded there actually is no bass in there at all. There also has been no evidence of bass fishing like other fishermen and empty senko packets etc laying around the banks and there is always a ton of carp fisher people there.
Well yesterday I thought what the hell, let’s try there again. Just as I pulled into the cark park another bass fisherman pulled up and he showed me some good spots. On about my second or third cast I caught this…
The even better news is, there is also a place to launch my boat
I don’t know, Steve, but some of those bass look pretty decent. Maybe your definition of dink is different than mine? Glad to hear that the water levels are back up!
I agree with Nomad. Nice bass Steve!!!
Those fish were the bigger of all the dinks at around the 10 inch mark, all the others were too small to post
Except for the one I caught on the spinnerbait, the other 28 never exceeded 8 inches (and the majority were 6 inch and below). How in the world do you catch 28 bass, with not a one over 8 inches? Oh wait, I know how, maybe I should write a book!
With my dink knowledge, I can help you right the book if you like
I’d be interested in buying the book if you guys write it.
I went out last night and got SKUNKED! LOL Tons and tons and tons of baitfish swimming the shore, but I couldn’t get a bass to bite anything I threw out there. They must have been full from gorging on bait fish. 
Am very familiar, I say again very familiar with the Skunk Club
Wilsong, sounds like maybe you and I should team up for one of these tournaments. Two negatives are supposed to make a positive, ya know.
Rob, did you try a 4″ black Nomad senko??
Wilsong, I still have my membership card for the skunk club also which get’s used occasionally
Oh, so now they’re “Nomad Senkos?”
That’s right, Rob. Gary Yamamoto has named the black, 4-inch senko after me, his most loyal customer and sole reason he’s driving a Ferrari
The all new 4″ black Gary Yamanomado senko —
LOL Steve
Honestly, the best luck I’ve ever had with bass (dinks up to 20″) is a minnow-head lead head jig with a tube skirt(color dependent on conditions, but usually white, red/white or punkinseed) and a large minnow.
I typically only ever fish with jigs and have caught everything under the sun. So has the hubby, and he uses a telescoping 10′ crappie rod, no reel. This year, hubs caught a 26″ northern pike, 24″ walleye, 7 pound channel cat, countless crappie and a plethora of 8-1O” dinks. He’s better at the singular stunning catches. LOL*
i Caught my 20″ bass on an 5′ ultra lite rod with 6 pound test. Thrill of my life, as I thought it was a goner because it was in some heavy log cover and the bass was laying close to surface only to try and submarine on me…6 pound mono…yeah, like I said. MIRACLE CATCH!
P.S. We almost exclusively fish the Mississippi River, Quad City area, Pool 14.
Oh, and thanks for letting me know what a “dink” is. We catch a lot of bass that are 8″ – 12″. We just call them “not legal.” LMAO
Bass have to be 14″ and over to keep where we fish. Naturally, the Grandma bass go back for the Gene pool.
Can’t wait to tell hubby about dinks.