Happy Easter SUF family !!!

Happy Easter, everyone! Got out yesterday and I have to say it was a great live scope day. Super clear picture despite high winds. I had great success locating fish, even targeting them and getting them to chase my bait. But couldn't get them to bite, mostly. It's been warming up here in MI but the water temp was still below 50. This smallie was in ~10-15 feet of water. Caught it on a lipless. 3lb 17in. Then I parked in that spot (see live scope) and threw everything in my boat at them. They would chase, but not take. Not sure if those are bass and I just couldn't crack the code, or if those were smaller bait fish and I just got lucky that there was a smallie hanging around. I need a lot more practice to ID bass on the scope. Hope you all have great outings this weekend!

🚨PB! Catching this giant in a tournament was a moment I will never forget. Caught a nice one early on a chatterbait, saw this guy stir up the water and finally got em with the SMH worm. Missed 1st place by 1 inch and I’m really wishing I had a better 3rd fish, but incredibly thankful for a great weekend of fishing.

16.74 for 3rd place today .

Post frontal conditions I tried to find The big large mouth but ended up finding some really nice spots so I stuck with that. My big fish was 4.38 and the shaky head was King. I got the rest of docs flipping a senko.

Made a change to a lighter weight and immediately started getting bites flipping lay downs.

With everything that has happened there’s so many things happening quickly. All we can do and should do is show love and empathy to all that’s involved. This is a part of life I’ve worked on. Empathy has never been a strong point for me so this is a opportunity to show up for myself and others by being emphatic.

Thanks to all for being patient with us.

Well got another one off a bed today. This one I managed to capture on video.

https://youtube.com/shorts/SmPmTpCZOw8?si=dRHXedZTQuJ04rI5