Best Spybait Reel

River Rat Fishing reported catching Largemouth Bass using the Spybaits technique and Shimano Vanford Spinning Reel on Bass Lake (91). Additional comments from this report: "Water temp was 40 degrees today and the air temp was 38 and cold. I caught a few early on the lipless but the bite just stopped. I tied on the spybait and fished it super slow about a foot off the bottom on 10 feet of water and put a nice 3 pounder in the boat and 4 between a half and 1 pound. I also caught a decent smallmouth."

Christian Highfield reported catching Smallmouth Bass using the Spybaits technique and Shimano Vanford Spinning Reel on Lake Erie. Additional comments from this report: "Fish are moving back out. Catching them in open water flats or mid range rock piles/structure in open water. "

Kent Mittelstaedt reported catching Smallmouth Bass using the Spybaits technique and Shimano Vanford Spinning Reel on St. Lawrence River. Additional comments from this report: "Fished the bassmaster open on SLR. Caught good numbers and decent size up shallow on calm sunny days. Spybait triggered the best bites. I targeted isolated boulders that I could see and made a long cast to get bites. "

Sam Rardin Fishing reported catching Smallmouth Bass using the Spybaits technique and Daiwa Tatula MQ LT Spinning Reel on Mille Lacs Lake. Additional comments from this report: "The smallmouth are easily 80% done around the lake. Many fish are post spawn and are fairly tough to catch. I’ve been throwing Feider flys, spy baits, and perfect Ned’s. I have been finding most of my fish in 8-12ft around larger boulders or good gravel to larger Boulder transitions, some boulders had fish stacked on them and some didn’t. I still haven’t seen a giant mayfly hatch yet this year but some of the boulders are starting to get green algae of some kind growing on them making it a little tougher to fish bottom contact baits. I do believe the fish tend to stay away from boulders that have that growing in abundance on them. Soon will be in a full summer swing!"

Paddy J reported catching Smallmouth Bass using the Spybaits technique and Daiwa Tatula MQ LT Spinning Reel on Sturgeon Bay. Additional comments from this report: "Loooong casts with 8# braid and 6# flouro was the ticket. I liked using a super tiny VMC crankbait snap to swap through colors quickly but black was definitely the winner. "

It’s about that time of year where the smallies are moved up pretty shallow on Lake MI. Crushed them on spybaits over large boulder and structure in water between 8-15 feet! If you can’t get them with that, throw on your favorite dropshot combo and work around the structure with that!