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Largemouth BassTechniqueFrogs/ToadsSeasonSummerStructureMatted Grassin the southern basin bass frogs and punching were the techniques I used with frogs doing the best. Caught pike and bowfin on the punch rig. When the sun came out wacky rig started producing around docks and weed lines
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Smallmouth BassTechniqueDrop ShotSeasonSummerStructureLedgesHot, hazy day with steady wind. Fish were suspended mid-column, in water up to 40ft.
- SpeciesLargemouth BassTechniqueFinesse JigsSeasonSummerStructureSubmerged Vegetation
bass were scattered due to rain/overcast conditions had my best luck with a finesse jig worked around rock and sparse weeds
- SpeciesSmallmouth BassTechniqueDamiki RigSeasonSummerStructureOpen Water/Basin
Open water smallie fishing
- SpeciesSmallmouth BassTechniqueSoft JerkbaitsSeasonSummerStructureRock Pile
Week long trip to Champlain, lot of smallmouth up shallow in the clear water feeding actively on yellow perch. Can catch them with a number of techniques, but the fluke was most successful and it was good for a 15lbs day on smallies alone (possibly more if had water to self). Winners caught their fish in 40-60 ft scoping a minnow of various sizes, I finished 19th of 158.
- SpeciesLargemouth BassTechniqueBladed JigsSeasonSummerStructureSubmerged Vegetation
The baits and tools listed are what I leaned on; however I have good information that on top of this bite sequence there was also a productive frog and swim jig bite in the shore line grasses, on top of the offshore submerged vegetation. This is a choice, much of the submerged grasses look like they are dirty, disturbed and not in the best of water and this is the case from Canada Line to Ticonderoga. If you can find cleaner grasses, there are and will be large mouth, but in these areas you are prone to catch more northern pike as well. Smallmouth fishing ended up being a more productive fishing approach for competition purposes.
- SpeciesSmallmouth BassTechniqueDrop ShotSeasonSummerStructureBaitfish
Found smallmouth loosely relating to offshore structure in 20-35ft of water. They were primarily relating to alewife and would corral them up against pieces of structure. Caught them on a drop shot as well as a dimiki rig in front of the boat or below it. I would pan around with Mega Live until I saw a group of smallmouth and throw at them with a dropshot if they were near the bottom or the dimiki if they were higher up in the water column. Some fish we barely under the surface at times.
- SpeciesSmallmouth BassTechniqueFootball JigsSeasonSummerStructureRock Pile
Trim the head off the slow flow and run it on the back of the OW Sniper. Killer combo or big summertime smallmouth!
