Brian always talks about fishing for other species to spice it up! What’s the craziest fish you caught on a wacky rig while fishing for bass? Caught this beauty in Newport News, VA. 

Potomac River- shallow running crankbait in the grass. I like the pink and grey color. 

The wrong rod can break your heart when Grass fishing in the summer!

I was able to get out fishing today in my friend’s boat on man made lake. We found lots of baits and started out catching small bass. Then I tied on a KVD 6inch sexy spoon and the bass there fish were biting. Midday of a  bright sunny day in 10-25 feet of water. Biggest fish was 3.46lbs. 

Throwback to this giant wish we had a scale!

Caught 4 this weekend, but lost one at the boat when he jumped out and shook himself loose. Gotta love it. But still a good weekend at my home lake.... 5.01 lbs, 2.12 lbs, and 2.01 lbs. The 2.01 pounder I caught with a Gambler EZ-Swimmer plastic swimbait on an Owner 1/4oz swimbait hook with an underspinner. First successful catch on a swimbait! Usually I have a bad hookset. Everything else was on my "confidence bait"; 1/16th Gamakatsu Weedless Wacky Jig, and used Gambler Sweebo worms again this weekend. 

The 5 pounder I used more of those laydown techniques from the Laydowns workshop. Yeah, a wacky jig, even if its weedless is asking for a hang up in a laydown scenario, but they work pretty well for me to trigger a bite. I tend to use it as a search bait too lol. The 2.01 pounder, I swam that swimbait right next to a laydown and it got bit... I had Brian's voice in my head saying "something swims by and it ambushes it.."

The other 2 pounder was hiding in some shade next to some grass by some bridge rip rap. 

Here are some of my catches on this mornings adventure, just posting the first one to start the session and the last one before I was off to work. Bass fishing is awesome and intuitive when you don’t “try” too hard and just do the “hard” work instead, without doubt! First one was 1.02 kilograms; caught at around 05:43 am, using a Z-Man HellraiZer 4" - 3/8 oz. - Matte Black, with medium fast retrieve, pausing and zig-zagging in roughly 0.6 meters of water…& the last one of the morning was 0.34 kilos; caught around 07:21 am, using a “Major Craft” Zonar Hunter ZHC55 crankbait 2”1/4 - 7/16 oz. - Red Craw, with a precise retrieve of occasional slowed pace to avoid rocks/submerged cover and other debris with twitches and bursts of speed in roughly 1.2 meters of water. 

Caught this one dragging a black and blue chatter bait in super muddy water.

Had to some fun pan fishing this morning at a pond with my grandson. When he is only 21 months old “everyone was a big fish”! 😀🎣