Smalliehunter48

Speaking of jerkbaits... I have a silver husky jerk, and a new x-rap rapala...problem potentially is that in this river I am mostly fishing in 2 foot of water or less....and I am afraid I'll just drag bottom. This is why I decided my 1/8 oz spinnerbait was the goto lure of choice. The larger spinners and crank baits dive too deep. Maybe I need a Floating Rapala that only dives a foot or so. You think? Also what would you recommend for stained water presentations.

I live in Indiana, and I just had the best morning of Smallie fishing in my life. A couple Sundays ago I hiked in to a hole a mile from anywhere and found a small bottleneck in a typically wide slow river. I was fishing my river go to bait. An 1/8 ounce strike king white w/ #2 Colorado. Exept I changed the blade to #5 deep cut colorado. Anyway I caught a 12" Smallie and a 16" Catfish and was feeling dumb for hiking all the way into this hole when the biggest smallie I have ever seen blasted a minnow topwater and came clear out of the water. When I got down there to where the bottle neck open out to slow wide river, I made my first cast w/ spinner and snagged terribly. Broke the swivel and was fixing to tie on another when I noticed I had just bought a berkely frenzy popper the day before. And it just happened to be white. Hmm I thought, Why not. So I shot it out to the last known topwater slam and sure enough two pops later Wham....19" 4+lber. Had a mouth almost three inches wide...I was jazzed to say the least. Then I thought maybe another? Wham! Another..uh huh...All told in one hour I landed 12-15 fish that size. One big momma actually had the entire 2 3/4" popper in her mouth sideways hooks in. I am a smallie chasin fool now. Sadly though, An hour later it was pouring down rain in buckets. So my river flooded three feet high and muddy as chocolate milk... > But thankfully a week and a half later its almost back to normal....Funny thing is..I caught a 6 lb. Largemouth a couple weeks ago 22" long monster and he fought like a little girl compared to the four pound smallies...Anyway, good luck this "season".