Took my dad with me this morning and landed my PB striper! My first time taking him out so it was a freaking blast getting to put him on some fish. Thankfully they were eating today. These were the best of the day, All on an 1/8oz jig head with a 3” paddle tail in wind blown pockets and coves
October 09
Enjoying fall break with my mini me lol…
Baits used MR6 crank bait and a Zoom speed worm 6 to 8 ft of water with one second pauses on retrieving.
October 16
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Hey Brian Latimer - thanks for the instructions on how to land a big fish. I had just watched the video Tuesday night where you were telling your tips for how to land a big fish and Wednesday morning I tried your method for opening the bail and thumbing my spool to work the fish in. This was the first time I had ever tried it. How'd I do? I did land the fish and he only had a single hook in him so I was pretty pleased with using your method for the first time.
I fought him for over 2 minutes - of course I had to trim this video way down.
I fished this rip rap bank for a little while using this little jerk bait. I varied how I was fishing multiple times trying to figure out what they wanted. I fished it using light twitches and I tried fishing it with sharp heavy jerks and some retrieves I would mix it up light and heavy jerks in the same retrieve and also periods of just straight medium speed retrieve without any jerks or twitches. Oddly enough - the straight reel retrieve was what got this smallmouth to hit. I did start the retrieve with a few little twitches - so maybe that got his attention and he decided to go for it on the straight retrieve. I don't know 🤷🏽♂️ What do y'all think?
October 16
I never, NEVER fish docks.. I always skip them and fish the bank, laydowns, bushes over hanging the water... AND I'm more of a river angler..but I have a 2 championships coming up and both lakes, Lake Oconee and lake Sinclair, are known to be "dock lakes"... so I've been out there skipping wacky worms under the docks that I can get one up under, and am pleasantly surprised at what I've found under them..!! (Brian Larimer, that's a Bassmooch worm that I won at our lake Russell championship this past March !!)
October 15
• Edited (Oct 16, 2025)
Too bad the Fall Classic hasn't started yet! I caught a few little largemouths today and one nice smallie!
This one was caught on a Megabass X80 BFS Jr. jerkbait with a BFS reel and UL rod. 😊
October 18
Caught my first fish on a crank bait( found it in a tree last week) anybody know why there’s a swivel on it?
October 20
Did a Club Tournament at Smith Mountain Lake in Southwest Virginia. Never been there before so fished two days and then the tournament. Found enough fish to finish 3rd with 5 fish for 11.8 pounds. Bait fish were everywhere so it was tough to get’em to bite an artificial lure.
Caught them in open water below bait balls on a soft swimbait ( Sexy Shad colored), Crankbait ( Sexy Shad) and a 6 inch spoon ( sexy Shad). Notice a theme?
