Anyone else throwing the old green curado’s? My favorite reels of all times so solid never fails I’ve got 4-6 older shimanos like this had them since I was 18 so over 14 years and still solid like the day I bought them

Same lake I fish all the time first smallie I’ve ever caught there. I’ve heard of people catching one very rarely and I have fished it for over 15 years. Made for a good morning went out for 2 hrs and was a cold morning but landed a good one!

Finally starting to kick off here in the PNW caught 10 the other day with water temps hovering around 54. Biggest was 4 the others were in the 3 pound range, caught most off the Evo chatterbait with the freeloader as a trailer. Black and blue are a staple for me and white and chartreuse, slowly reeling with occasional stops and finding the patchy grass before the spawning flats haven’t quite moved all the way in yet. Super fun day once I found the pattern and it clicked

Caught some decent fish this weekend but when it gets tough the scenery is nice to enjoy and do some exploring!

Potholes changes so much when I go next I’ll take another round of pictures. Right now waters high so a lot of islands and stuff is covered they are starting to irrigate the crops so water will drop in a month the place will look so different. Something crazy out there too is the seagull mating season so many looks like snow or ice on the water.

Gonna be a beautiful day headed to potholes! Wish me luck 🎣🤘🏽

Something I don’t use much of but I’m gonna force my self to fish more is spinner baits. I fish a lot of chatterbaits, I know they all have their place. So my question is what’s everyone’s favorite spinner bait to use and color if you have a specific one?

Last year caught these 2 back to back on a fire tiger 6th sense quake trap bait. Good old slime rockets or also known as lure snatchers so many times bitten off. Both of these fish over 35”s a lot of our lakes are stocked with tiger muskie to control the carp population. They sure put up one hell of a fight too

Here’s a good ol PNW smallie. Not quite time for us to fish yet so I’m stuck looking back on my catches from last season. Something I don’t hear a lot of people fish anymore with forward facing sonar craze is the tube. With the tube head just slightly back from being fully inserted giving it that spiral fall. One of my favorite baits the tube has produced a lot of good fish for me. Anyone else fish a lot of tubes?

About a month away from fishing we’ve been getting hit hard with snow this last month. Out of the negatives supposed to be in upper 40’s next week afraid Mother Nature is gonna sneak a 3rd winter in on us 🤣Hope you guys have been having good fishing weather. I’m just over here patiently waiting 😩