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Smallmouth BassTechniqueDrop ShotSeasonSummerStructureRock PileFish slowly, dragging drop shots and ned rigs caught a lot of fish. Just had to find the rock piles that held fish.
SpeciesSmallmouth BassTechniqueUnderspinsSeasonSpring (Pre-Spawn)StructurePointsWater is still cold, not sure of the exact temp as I fish without any electronics. The females were off of points. Slow rolling the finesse swimbait was the ticket.
- SpeciesSmallmouth BassTechniqueDrop ShotSeasonSpring (Pre-Spawn)StructureOpen Water/Basin
Drifting with drop shots across rock piles and open basin
- SpeciesSmallmouth BassTechniqueHard JerkbaitsSeasonSpring (Pre-Spawn)StructureRip Rap
Fishing rip rap breaks near spawning flats. Targeting areas that the smallmouth would likely stage waiting to spawn. We have a full moon right now, so finding the fish was the tricky part because they were constantly moving. Once you found them you could really beat on them with a steady jerking cadence. 40-80 fish days aren’t uncommon. This day I did about 45 in 3 hours. When it was low light and cloudy I used Mat Skeleton vision 110. When the clouds went away and became bright sunny I switched between the Mavrik, and vision 110 in GG deadly black shad.
SpeciesSmallmouth BassTechniqueDamiki RigSeasonSummerStructureOpen Water/BasinWent out to fish Lake Erie on a very smoky day (thanks Canada). Ended up targeting isolated fish on my Lowrance 2D sonar with dropping a Z-Man Jerk Shadz in smelt color on their head with a 3/8oz smeltinator jig head. Having the longer rod like my 7'10 Victory rod made the technique a lot easier with getting the bait further out away from the boat with how much visibility there was in the water that day. I was fishing 40 feet of water, and having fish shoot up and eating the bait when it was just 20 feet down. Super fun bite to get on when they want it, highly recommend it.
SpeciesSmallmouth BassTechniqueDrop ShotSeasonSpring (Post-Spawn)StructureRock PileSmallies are starting to move back out of shallow flats. Finding them on brush lines or rock piles in 8-12’ of water.
Brandon BrownBronze AmbassadorSpeciesSmallmouth BassTechniqueDrop ShotSeasonSpring (Post-Spawn)StructureRock Pile- SpeciesSmallmouth BassTechniqueDamiki RigSeasonSummerStructureBoulders
Use your graphs to find rock piles with bass on them. You can hang the minnow over their head or work on your midstroll game! 22lbs in less than an hour I would say this was the deal yesterday!
