tikki vs. tube

[jglassguy]

Sure,
it was bound to happen and I am not surprised that it did..my magical tikki stick today didn't impress the smallmouth on the lake at all lol
We worked over rip rap for a 1/4 mile stretch on the causeway, saw many bass chasing shad, but figured the smallmouth would feed on the rocks...I knew the north side had more wind, and prob better conditions, but we worked under the brige and steep steep rip rap, holding the boat in 20 plus feet of water and casting

Arkies craw and the stinkin' tikki, not getting anywhere.
You could see that the softball size rip rap changed to basketball size boulders 9 ft straight down.
So ,I go back to faithful tube jig, watermelon seed ZOOM
and of course it lodges under every rock there is but generally you can snap your line back a foot and pop it out,......still no takers on it.
We got to watch a 2 lb largemouth loose the battle this time chasing a 3 inch shad across the top of the water,
booked on over to some coves on the west side with just tons of trees in the water, lots of crappy anglers in there, but no bass..
So..my theory is that that tikki is killer on ponds, still don't know if its magic or not to smallies...
Anyone else out there have a certain tikki color for smallies? ???