Lake Shetek Fishing Report
Stick with the chartreuse/black search bait only if no bait is seen after 30 minutes.
Both. Bait is "observed" when you see it visually — breaking the surface, flickering, or showing on your electronics (side/down imaging or a bait ball on sonar) — or when you confirm it in a caught fish's belly. For this plan, surface visual or electronics evidence is the immediate on-water trigger to switch from the search bait to the lipless crankbait and work that zone. Stomach content tells you a pattern is valid but is not a real-time location cue.
One next move that matters: If you see scattered shad or minnows on the surface or stacked on side imaging, swap to the shad/chrome lipless crankbait, rip it through the top of that mark, and work the entire visible column. Stick with the chartreuse/black search bait only if no bait is seen after 30 minutes.