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    Anyone use a long rake when fishing the thick weeds? Was at okeechobee the other day and saw a guy using a long rake to make a hole in the thick weeds to drop his jigs. Looked like a very cool idea

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    I have. Some of the biggest crappie I've ever caught was on a rare super cold day in Bradenton. I had learned earlier (TV show) that dying vegitation matts create heat and that on cold days fish will hold under them. So, I took a potato rake with me and ran up onto a matt of floating hyacinths, raked out a couple of holes, and proceeded to pull crappie out from underneath them.
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    Sounds like a good idea to me Grass rake


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    I thought everybody knew about rakes.
    When we fish shallow lakes like many here in Florida, where do they go when the water temp reaches 90?
    Maybe back into the swamps under the grass, or just under the grass if there is no swamp?
    Some use a 10’ length of metal electrical conduit with a hook bent on one end.
    Problem is there is always a 10’ pc of pipe in the boat.
    I bought the best telescopic boat hook West Marine sells.
    Drilled out the pop rivits holding the hook onto the pole.
    Then drilled the ones out holding the end of the hook part on.
    I bought a 4 prong hand held garden scratcher and broke the wood part of the handle off.
    That left just a spike end opposite of the prongs.
    Inserted that into the end of the hook part and used putty type epoxy to hold it in.
    Then pop rivited it back together onto the pole.
    So i now have a boat hook with a rake attached.
    It also works very well for retrieving lures hung up on things like weeds, even under water branches.
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    Like the idea yo. Gotta keep my eyes open for something along that line, cuz I probably won’t buy new. Been dippin holes for a while, great fun when it’s goin on.
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    Great idea!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by skeetbum View Post
    Like the idea yo. Gotta keep my eyes open for something along that line, cuz I probably won’t buy new. Been dippin holes for a while, great fun when it’s goin on.
    I guess the question is when is it going on?
    According to people like Whitey Outlaw for example, its always going on in places lacking deep water, like Santee Cooper where he lives.

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    Quote Originally Posted by yobuck View Post
    I guess the question is when is it going on?
    According to people like Whitey Outlaw for example, its always going on in places lacking deep water, like Santee Cooper where he lives.
    The very first time I ever saw anyone doing it was a professional bass tournament on Lake Rodman (which is not terribly shallow - at least by Fl standards). It was the dead of winter and the bass angler had a feeling the fish would be under the warmer dying vegetation (he was right).

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