Buzzer beater today during a game time decision, slow rolling the A-rig did the job through a deep 7ft-8ft slow stretch. She bumped it twice on the bottom and then swam up 7 ft to hit it at the boat in 38 degree water today. 19.5” Incher. Only bite today. Couldn’t get em to eat a jerk bait today uncharacteristically. My homie caught his on a jerk though. I’ll take it. Admittedly first smallie on the A-rig. Finally set it up where I wasn’t getting hung up and the heads weren’t to heavy and voila!

Deadly nedley catching tanks while shore bangin today. I had been eyeing this spot on the Google maps for a couple years. Finally did a reconnaissance hike mission today to see if I could fish this spot as this river bank is just mud and hard to fish this stretch. One bite is all it takes sometimes to be a successful afternoon session! Couldn’t be happier.

They were indeed smashing a jerkbait in 34 degree water. The brightest most direct light of the day turned them on. Sitting on the bottom in 10-11ft on a very rocky bank I could see them on the graph all day. We had a couple head butt the A-rig but that’s it. As soon as the sun started to fall and hit that rocky bank directly they switched on for about 20 mins. Definitely wasn’t easy, but the mission was accomplished. 20 some mph gusts all day on the river made it hard to even present a bait. 5 hours in and 3 fish in the last 30 mins before we had to motor back about 2 miles. This is winter fishing. Happy to have gotten out there.

34 degree water temp. Yall sending it?
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Feeding the smallies the big bait in mid November is quite a treat. This tank ate a 7” glide

One rod challenge. 7” taxi shad glide. If you don’t have confidence in something, keep it in your hand. If you want to purely get better at something, just keep it in your hand. If it’s a black and blue jig just keep it in your hand. The difference with the “big baits” is just the buy in is more expensive. Same mindset. All baits are just tools. It can be more fun to use an air ratchet instead of a box end wrench.
This is a solid 3 Younder but before this I had what I propose to be a 6-7 pounder come and grab this thing and just missed the hooks. Funny how they can do that.
Tight lines! Get out there!

There’s no rules to this. Only suggestions. Hunted down a nice hybrid fishing eddies adjacent to white water on the river. The water was dirty so I chose a chatterbait. Not your typical “striped bass family” of baits. Predators just need to “see” the presentation. Sometimes vibration helps. . Wading is a form of bank fishing and can be extremely productive right now. If you’ve got hybrids around you go give em a shot. They’re heating up while the other black bass species can be difficult this time of the year. This almost 22” 4 1/2 pounder was a pb for me. Man do they fight! Especially in the current. Tight lines! 🎣

Caught a handful of pond bass on the minimax the other day in span of 100 degree days we had. Water temp is up and so is the bass’ metabolism.