Trolling when all else fails?

[Rfong]

During his slow time of year with high water and muddy waters, is trolling with crankbaits or spinnerbait recommended?

I prefer using a fly rod but will resort to any level to catch a fish.

How about using rubber worms, Texas rig style?

[roadwarriorsvt]

I caught one small LMB on a black buzz bait yesterday. I had two poles set up with checken livers, but not even one strike!

[Ken]

You can troll with a fly rod Either streamers or deer hair pattens with a cut face so that it dives when you retrieve.

[Stan Wright]

I spoke with a guy last week who was catching some nice peacocks while trowling crank baits... that was the only way he was catching.

On Saturday I fished with a guy that is a pro bass angler. He was catching largemouth using worms and drop shot rigs in the tree tops and heavy brush. He was amazing.

[Crash]

Hey Stan,

Can you expound on the drop shotting in the tree tops thing. Worms?? What kind??

Crash

[Stan Wright]

Go to Google and type in " drop shot rig " and all kinds of stuff comes up...

http://www.bassresource.com/fishing/drop-shot.html

We didn't have any 4 inch plastic worms so Chris just broke off the last 4 inches of a longer one. I don't even remember the color.
But boy, when you twitch that thing it has some nice action.

Chris was also using a regular 6 or 8 inch plastic worm. rigged Texas Style..... a bullet shape weight on the line and the worm hook point stuck back into the worm to make it weedless.

We just pulled up to a fallen tree and he tossed the worm right into the top of it and then started letting out line and the worm drop strait down.