4th cast on gville

Fall fishing has come to Texas and everything is keyed in on shad. One minute I'm snatching smallies off the boat ramp rip rap with crankbaits and the next I'm cutting anchor and taken for about a 15-20 minute ride in my kayak. Poor crankbait took a beating with the split rings stretched out. (2nd image shows the crankbait)

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?

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 !!)

After the live on Monday . 2 Larry’s and a Flathead!

Working on my rod skills play/learning how to use drag.

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. 😊

Corey Richardson it happens lol

Found me a nice one while practicing for an upcoming championship on Lake Oconee, in Georgia..

Did some map research and found some rocky bluffs in 20+ feet of stained water. Didn’t let the light rain and 20 mph winds keep me away. Threw a shad colored rock crawler along the rocky bluff 10-12 feet deep in 71 degree water. Rewarded with a 4 pounder and two 3 pounders in less than 3 hours of fishing. Make it simple just listen to B.Lat!!