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Smallmouth BassTechniqueShallow Diving Crankbaits (0-6')SeasonSummerStructurePointsCasting DT 6 and DT 10 around rocky points was consistently producing smallmouth in different conditions and times of the day.
SpeciesSmallmouth BassTechniqueTubesSeasonSummerStructureBoulders
SpeciesSmallmouth BassTechniqueShallow Diving Crankbaits (0-6')SeasonSummerStructurePointsSmallys are one of my favorite fish, especially throwing crankbaits! Look for shallow points that extend for a long ways out from shore, use a paper map your, a map on your electronics. Start on the deeper end and work your way up. If you can find points with big boulders and rocks all the better, BIG Rocks = BIG Fish! Keep working the points, if you can find ones that are wind blown. Good Luck !
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WalleyeTechniqueLive Bait RigsSeasonSummerStructureLedgesFishing this week was tough. We tried everything. Lindy's with crawlers and leeches. Bottom bouncers with slow death rigs. Casting jerkbaits, ned rigs, drop shot, soft plastic paddle tails. We fished flats, rock humps and weed edges. All in areas where we can confirm there was fish (many times the fish looked at my leech on the live sonar and swam away). The few fish we did catch, especially a 15.5 not shown, was a fat as a football likely gorged with mayflies and other baitfish. July is a tough month on Kab. Where we did hear of success was really slow presentation of live bait rigs with a bare hook tipped with a leech moving very slow (0.5 mph or even less). Still the fish in the pic was caught with an Authentix Puls-R 3.25" PB&J on a rock reef in 14FOW. Fluke? On a week like this maybe!
SpeciesWalleyeTechniqueShallow Diving Crankbaits (0-6')SeasonSummerStructureRock PileLook for the shallow wind blown rock piles, shorelines and points. Use your electronics to find good areas with your side imaging and plotter to find the big boulders and rubble. Put your trolling motor down and start throwing a Rapala DT-6 into the rocks. The Walleyes will set up waiting for the schools of bait to come through. If you can get on the back side of the rock piles and cast into the wind so the bait will be coming at the the structure naturally with the waves. I like using XT mono as it is more abrasion resistance and holds up better.
SpeciesSmallmouth BassTechniqueShallow Diving Crankbaits (0-6')SeasonSummerStructurePoints
SpeciesWalleyeTechniqueVertical Jigging Deep (20'+)SeasonSummerStructureHumpsUse your electronics to locate schools of fish and drop down to them. Use your electronics to stay above the school and keep bouncing the jig a foot or two off the bottom.You can tie the mono to the braid and use a snap swivel the attach the jig to your line or use a short piece of mono about 3 feet long to attach to the braid to the mono and then tie to the jig Good luck!
- SpeciesSmallmouth BassTechniqueHard Topwater (Walking)SeasonSpring (Post-Spawn)StructureRock Pile
Many of the smallmouth are spawn and post-spawn and are on rocks around spawning bays. Throwing a walking bait worked well for covering areas and getting good bites.
