My daughter and I had a great time this weekend! 18 fish between the 2 of us and she caught her PB, 1.72 lbs 17in

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. 

Here are some pics from my adventures this weekend. Only caught 3, but got 2 bullheads and a largemouth. Caught these guys on my Bait Finesse workhorse rod with my go-to/confidence lure... 1/16th Gamakatsu "weedless" wacky jig, and a trickworm. Normally I use a trickworm by Dave's Tournament Tackle which have a slower fall from any trickworm I've used. This time I used a Gambler Sweebo wacky worm, but I tend to use a lot of Dave's Tournamet Tackle trickworms. I don't compete so I'm not sponsored, but Dave lives in my area and makes all his tackle. Has a nice shop to boot and sells other stuff too. Figured I'd change up the worm shape for a couple weekends, as I think they were getting pressured on the Dave worm's lol.

Curious, but are there any BFS (Bait Finesse System) reel users out there? I'm not a spinning reel kind of guy, and found BFS is a really nice alternative for finesse fishing. I aim for largemouth most of the time. I have 2 BFS setups in my boat... one always has a wacky rig, and the other is either a shaky head, dropshot, or a silly thing I've been messing with called a rocker head by Headbanger lures. Both setups are my workhorses. I run them on medium/fast casting rods. My 3 other rods are medium heavy/fasts for texas rigs, top waters, and spinnerbaits. For my BFS rigs, I usually go between 1/16 - 1/4oz jigs and lures... anything over that, I'll use my medium heavies. My BFS setups catch me more fish than my heavy setups. Out of my heavier setups, the texas rig and spinner are the workhorses. Just curious though if anyone in the community messes around with BFS reels. 

Though I'd post up a pic of my little boat. Not sure how many canoe anglers are here, but here's my heavily rigged Scanoe. Started as a temporary measure, but has become our trusty ol' boat. Takes me and my youngest on many adventures every weekend.

Hello! New to the SUF community, and subscribed a couple of days ago. Looking forward to learning from BLat and others as well. I fish every weekend from my rigged out canoe with my youngest daughter who loves fishing as well. So far, watched the Laydown videos and wow, I haven't been picking them apart as well as I should. Hoping to try those techniques out this weekend.