I fish a lot of swimjigs running them in the pads up here and something I don’t hear a lot of people ever fishing for pre spawn is a Topwater frog 🐸 soon as I see 50 degree water temps Ive always got a frog on my deck. Can’t forget the chatterbait though ok…. And dropshot

Adam Joubert I think they are outta Texas. They have some good rods I like them and I have gloomis rods I got rods from cheaper to expensive and I think their good quality I look at the build of the blanks and compare.

Adam Joubert well glad your getting back into it!! If you haven’t tried sixgill rods they have some sales going on still I believe where certain rods are like $65 right now I like their heimdall jerk bait rod for small Texas rigs it’s like a 6’5 medium it’s a nice rod and for the price can’t be beat. I like finding their sales

Adam Joubert yes me too I fished a lot more and then we had a kid and I can’t get out as much so when I do I’m able to look at the journal and already have a game plan before I hit the lake. Once my kiddo is old enough I’ll get him on the boat and be able to go more but until then I enjoy getting out when I can. Also one day I can give them to my kid and he could use them or read through them and learn something from them. What I find is pretty fun with them is looking back at pictures on my phone and be able to see in my journal for that day the baits and ways I was catching them.

Adam Joubert I have if I find the lake is setup similar and it’s helped me. For me it’s the most helpful for figuring out how they react with the weather, time of year and like I was saying being where I’m at I can’t fish all year and it ices over so being able to look at my log from the year before eliminates a lot of guess work when I get out in the beginning of season cause I can also identify which of the lakes I fish generally spawns first. There’s a lake that I know next month that they generally start spawning smallmouth and they have a specific spot of that lake that I crush them on a red square bill 2-5’ diver but the thing I noticed from my log was I could see what weather pattern I really caught them in.

Cannon Rush im watching some tactical bass in on spinnerbaits and he’s talking about the same blade colors and styles throwing willow bladed

I use a log with that info you said what I caught them on, weather, depth etc that way when you go back the following year it just makes it easier to eliminate a lot of what didn’t work and what does work.

I’m gonna be picking some up next month and and I’ll keep that info in mind.

Chatterbaits are awesome if you get some I recommend the z man evo. Good price point they start up super fast good vibration. I used to use the originals till I tried the evo and I wouldn’t go back to the cheap ones.

Kevin Skovenski caught this off the pilings on potholes let it go to the bottom and yo yo it we caught about 10 largies and smallmouth all around this size