In a previous class we talked about schooling fish/bass. Never really gave it much thought as an application for up North….fast forward to my tournament yesterday I learned something new. Smallmouth and Largemouth will swim with the white bass and chase bait in open water. Im talking in over 90ft of water. We all saw it the day of the tournment, fish busting the surface and birds going nuts. But only one guy had the thought to go throw a 3” minnow in the middle of it. Justin in our club had 19.5lbs by 7:30am because of doing that. Including a 6lber in his bag which is rare up here. Has my brain wheels turning…

Last club tournament of the year today. Sad to see the season end but looking forward to breaking down everything I learned this year. Took 3rd overall and almost won big bass today with a 5.17. Smallmoufth were being difficult so when in doubt hit the docks and catch a 5lber.

Well, if you look closely, you’ll notice I’m not in the picture I’ve shared! I fished the championship for the club I run on Lake Bowen. I held the lead throughout the entire weigh-in with a 3.6 I punched out of the pads. Lo and behold, the last two fish weighed in were a 3.10 and a 6.14, knocking me right out of the money and out of the championship. That’s fishing for you! 😂

Fast forward to the picture I’ve shared. Two of my boys fishing a derby with a different club on a different lake absolutely put on a show, dropping 40.13 lbs in their best five fish! Now that’s just too unreal not to share! Couldn’t be happier for these guys. Sometimes you don’t get the outcome you’re looking for, but getting to watch your people succeed makes it all worth it!

Tight lines, SUF Fam! 🎣

In October our second workshop is going to be on old school techniques. There’s so much news on new lures and really not a in-depth teaching on how to fish rigs of the early days.

These techniques and rigs still catch bass and pros often use them. They aren’t fancy, expensive or new so there’s very little information on them.

I’m inviting some of my pro friends to join me in the workshop as well. We’ll cover things like

- Tubes

- Carolina rig

- split shot rig

- lipless crankbaits

- floating worm

- spinnerbaits

None of these are expensive or attractive to make YouTube videos about. However all of these are very affective and can be a good lure for you to catch bass on NOW

Nice Lund in Anderson SC… what do you think about it Brian L. ?

Hey all it's Thursday so you know what that means! Community roundtable tonight at 8PM EST. Use the link below 👇🏾

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87055145094?pwd=X0avMO1bkZq1KGyUMWAMbMvCy1QAnx.1

I have a silly question... When we post our catches in the facebook group page, should we also post them in the SUF app? And vice-versa? I'd hate for anyone to miss something I post in one and not the other..🤣

Need some advice for stopping the backlash. I have a curado dc 150hg spooled with 15lbs goro floro for jerkbait fishing. I have the dial set to 4 and I have the spool tension non set to moderate I’d say. Letting the lure free fall and all seems fine but go and make a light cast like Brian said in some of his videos and the thing starts getting backlash. Only thing I can think of is I spooled the line on the wrong direction as it came off the spool but I’m not sure. Hate to waste a fresh spool of line unless there’s any way to fix it?

Thanks

Good day and lessons learned. Landed a striper but destroyed my new B. Lat. Also first time using a bump board, posted for feeback.