I was out with eddythefly the other day we were fishing low and we were discussing baits ,,I was at A venue Last summer It was A venue pretty close to home, Its A well known spot for catching bass on peeler crab I fished the mark on fresh lug and got striped by crabs within mins of casting I can honestly say I have never seen as many bass in A spot before there were loads chasing sand eels and sprats (I think) the bass were coming to within feet from the shore there were cormorants and Loads of other sea birds diving and feeding every were you looked there were calm patches on the water I think from the oil in the bait fish as the bass fed were you cold Se large silver backs out of the water and the small bait fish shimmering in the sunlight I was seeing sand eels in the waters edge , The next day I returned armed with about 50+frozen peeler from my stock in the freezer and full of anticipation for the assault on the bass if they wee still there got there and it was flat calm as the day before and the gulls were out of shore diving down I fished one at range 100 yards + and one about 50 yards nothing at all the crab baits were coming back untouched as the tide turned the fish came in same as the day before so i moved x2 rods close in fish were now showing were my lines entered the water so i dropped a bait there it was so close I could Se my swivel of the top of the rig and there were bass breaking surface near the swivel i brought my rig in and took the leader of and put just A hook on with a large peeler crab bait on and free lined it and I got the feeling I may as well of been using an Easter egg for there was no interest in the bait at all I was recently digging some lug at the same venue and I was talking to A lad there he told me he had had some cracking bass from there on plugs +he had them on the flood and he invited me on A session plug fishing with him this year he was saying he had seen me there A few occasions but was unsure who I was so from my experience with sea fishing there are no top baits for bass depends on what there feeding on Ya I had loads of bass last year on fresh lug but when I saw the pics of the bass some others had on plugs, spinners, crab , sand eels, live baits And believe me I am talking bass to over double figures its an eye opening to be told that some of the big bass came from marks I had fished hope you find this interesting