I am still in bass node down here. Water temps are still low 80s and fishing for numbers is good on the tidal river I live on. Swim jigs, soft plastics, frogs etc.. But damn one day i will make up there and catch those brown smallies.. Yall still cracking those smallmouths now or are you in bow mode? BTW, the next legend in bass fishing is in Minnesota....Seth Fieder is a damn beast everywhere he goes.
They shut down smallies on the best stretch of the Mississippi in the fall because they go on a fall binge. I have not been fishing of a while.
really? damn man... Sota what would be your bait or technique of choice if you could choose one for the bulk of your smallmouth/ or largemouth fishing on the Miss River?
In the spring a smaller glass shad rap in the perch pattern, medium diving. Rest of the year a rapala husky jerk in the clown pattern. I also love to thread a crawler on a long shank hook with an orange berkley power egg above and free line it or fish it under a bobber. I also love black zara spooks.
Husky jerk is up there too I love suspending crank baits. Yo Zuri in the same patterns are damn good.
When ever I am fishing with something else on my rod and the bite is slow, I start singing send in the clowns, and boom goes the dynamite.
I am definitely still fishing and plan to stay after it through early October. We have had a pretty amazing season so far on Green Bay, Lake Michigan, and a few of the local mud puddles. We have put over 100 fish at 4 pounds or larger into the boat this year if I had to guess.
sweet... man I don't know how, but the St Lawrence river just keeps putting it out... that place is amazing
We smacked a few smallies 2 weeks ago in Northern MI. Unfortunately, I don't think I'll be able to get out too many more times before the boat gets put up for the winter. I'm hoping to go out this weekend one morning, but there are no good smallmouth lakes close to home so we'll be targeting largies. And our water temps are still pretty high - near 80 in most places, with lots of warm weather this week that's not likely to change soon. After that, I'm gone elk hunting and then home for the opening weekend of bow season. I am really going to try my best to get out one of those first two weekends in October, but with my kid's baseball and him wanting to go hunting I'm not sure I'll pull it off. We caught these in shallow water (4-6 ft) on Ned rigs. They all had fat bellies so they're definitely starting to get on that fall feed pattern.
nice Justin. yeh, I know you boys up there love them walleyes.. they sure do eat good.. JT Kenny brought some here when he stayed during the BASS opens and cooked em up for us...very tastey
