Lloyd Sumpter wrote:

The ones illegally stocked with bass are all pretty shallow, less
than 10
meters deep at the most, with lots of shallows 1-2 meters (with lots
of
vegetation!).

I'd certainly start with a Texas rig, look for structure like down
fall, rocks, etc in the shallow water, cast beyond that, twitch the
worm along slowly, like raise the rod tip about a foot, then let the
worm fall to the bottom again, reel in slack, wait ten seconds or so,
repeat.

Water temp this time of year? Probably around 10 C, obviously warmer
in
the shallows and cooler down deep. It's too bad this "fish-in" is so
early
- these shallow lakes get over 20 C in the summer.

BTW: Several others have mentioned "Texas rig" and "Carolina rig" -
can
someone describe these, please? (I get the feeling they'd both be
illegal
he we're mainly single-barbless hooks in freshwater)

Lloyd

Lloyd, here's a couple of links, the first, lots of bass fishing info:
http://www.basspro.com/servlet/catal...Y_14_0_FISHING

And this one will give you specific examples of various rigs, Texas,
Carolina (a biggy here!), drop shot, etc. I think that seeing how you
aren't an experienced bass fisher, I'd stick to soft plastics. Get some
chartreuse colored six inch lizards, Zoom makes some good ones. Rig
them the same, Texas style, just like the worm pictured he
http://www.fish-hawk.net/tips/wormrig/wormrig.php