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.
I’m filming the Sunday Q&A in about a hour or whenever I finish this Sunday nap. You can still submit a question here if you have one.
Welcome to all the new members that joined this month. I'd love for you to post where you're from and where you fish mostly here in the community section. This is a great place for us to communicate daily!
So I am pretty proud of myself being able to adjust on the fly now to conditions on the water. The lake I go to I usually go to the North end and have a lot of success using a chatter bait style bait sometimes Slobber Knocker or original chatter bait. This morning it just was not working; the water was more stained than usual, so I tried on a Chartese and white spinner bait caught a couple of 2 pounders, but I usually hammer them here on this weed flat. I was thinking I needed to slow it down a bit and eliminate the noise a bit as well. So, it was the quarter ounce weighted VMC under spin with a full-size White Rage Swimmer swim bait on it that got the job done I hammered them for about two hours, was amazing. Thanks to referring back to knowledge I gain watching BLat's videos, Thank you a ton.
Here's the invites for the live class tomorrow night at 8pm. EST
Ken Pfieffer
Matthew Dennis
Tim Dodson
Mack Toon
All you need is your cell phone. Quiet place and preferably some ear buds if you have them. If not we'll just say "huh" until we understand what you're saying.
We'll send you a email tomorrow with the meeting link. If you can't be on the call no worries. Just let me know so we can bump up the next person in line!
Tomorrow I'd like to discuss How you can simplify summer fishing. Bring your questions about your home lake or a place you fish occasionally.
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.