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Largemouth BassTechniqueBladed JigsSeasonSummerStructureOpen Water/BasinParked and swimming with the family on the edge of a cove, decided to throw a few casts towards the center in deeper water (50’). Let the lure drop for a bit and started reeling.
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Smallmouth BassTechniqueHard Body SwimbaitsSeasonSummerStructureBrush PilesI pushed way up a creek on Tellico and tied on the Berkley Nessie, just to see if I could tempt something special. The water was skinny and clear, with shade and a little current winding down the channel. First few casts, a dark shadow peeled off a laydown and hammered the bait — a solid smallmouth that fought like it wanted to break me in half. Every fish after that seemed bigger than the last. The Nessie just glided perfectly, and those big bronzebacks couldn’t stand it. They’d track it for a second, flare their gills, and then crush it with bad intentions. Tellico doesn’t always give up its bigger smallmouth, but up a creek with the right presentation, those fish showed up in a big way.
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CatfishTechniqueTexas Rigs (Worming)SeasonSummerStructureLaydownsGot this big guy while bass fishing with my best friend! He pulled me about half a mile, and it took me like 15 to 20 minutes before I could even see what it was. I remember hoping into it thinking it was a snag, then it started swimming, and I remember looking at my friend and saying, "Dude....... this is a big fish!" It turned out to be a massive 28 and a half pound flathead catfish. I caught it on 20-pound power pro braid.
- SpeciesLargemouth BassTechniqueShallow Diving Crankbaits (0-6')SeasonSummerStructureRip Rap
Went out on Tellico on the south end. Caught 2 fish on a Riot 1.5 square bill with the new Mustad Alpha point treble hooks #6. Those hooks are very sharp. Also caught bluegill on the dame crankbait. The rest of my fish came on a Castaic Atlas Spinnerbait, all but one fish came from rip rap banks....the one outlier came off a dock. I ended up landing 4, lost 4 others at the boat plus the bluegill. Not a bad day.
- SpeciesLargemouth BassTechniqueWacky RigsSeasonSummerStructureFlooded Brush
Took wife and boys out fishing, goal was to bass fish while searching for bluegill beds to bluegill fish. Caught 6 pass, 5 of the 6 were all on Neko rigs with the Riot Baits Baton worm in green pumpkin, with a 1/64 woo nail weight. All the fish were up shallow in 4ft or less. Most of the bass were males guarding fry. Saw a few females still guarding some beds, but they were not interested in biting. The long and also largest bass came on a swimjig in about 3ft of water closer to the opening of the cove. Bluegills were in the laydown brush along the bank, most were getting ready to get on their beds as you could see the beds in clearer water in area's. Some also looked like they had spawned out in some places on the lake. Overall caught about 25-30 bluegills many were small but had 10 good ones!
- SpeciesLargemouth BassTechniqueShallow Diving Crankbaits (0-6')SeasonSummerStructureRip Rap
Using the new Riot Baits Revolt that was just released, fishing for both largemouth and smallmouth bass. Primary locations fishing were rip rap banks on bridges and off shore underwater structure. Fishing is tough, but if you can find the bait, you can usually find some fish. Yesterday, fishing Tellico, was able to find fish in a few different area's throwing the new Revolt Crankbait from Riot Baits. Shad colors are key, all the fish I caught the boat was in 10-20ft of water, casting to the shore and bringing the bait as close to parallel with the bank as possible while having it dive down the drop as you go. I was able to boat 4 out of the 6 bass doing this, 3 smallmouth, one that was 1.76lbs and then the 2.25lb came on an under water railroad bed from an old railroad bridge that was taken out years ago. Top of that was in 2ft of water, but the boat was sitting in anywhere from 8-25ft depending on where you were on the bed. I caught that larger smallmouth on a Picasso Vibrating jig, was the only fish that came on this yesterday, everything else was on the Revolt Crankbait. I've repeated this pattern a few times in the last 4weeks, yesterday produced the biggest fish so far. The key is finding the bait, either near the surface early in the morning or mid morning, or suspended bait about 7-10ft down. Deeper diving crankbaits would work too and I'll be trying those out next time I'm out.
- SpeciesLargemouth BassTechniqueBuzzbaitsSeasonSummerStructureRip Rap
Was fishing one of the new Buckeye G-Man Buzzbait in 3/8oz with Storm Horny Toad frog in black. Caught 7 total, 6 smallmouth and one largemouth and lost another largemouth. None were big but the largemouth was just under 2lbs. Was a fun few hours on the water in the morning.
- SpeciesLargemouth BassTechniqueCarolina RigsSeasonSpring (Pre-Spawn)StructurePoints
Dragging Carolina Rig of steeper banks in mouth of creeks and pockets producing several fish.
