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Black/Blue, Green/Brown. All you really need ANYWHERE! You can get specific with colors but you're pretty much going to be using some variation of those.

That's a sexy boat, nice fish too!

I've got family in Abingdon. I'm somewhat familiar with the fishing down there

sounds like a snapping turtle to me, especially because of the dead stick... Might help you sleep better

They might be un catchable. Cruising pre spawn females can be VERY difficult to catch. I would try to fish for something you can't see, unless one of those big ones locks onto a bed.

Glad to see that you guys caught one. Time for more now!

The bite was pretty good this morning, we caught 4 keepers, doubling the number we had caught in the past two days. I was lucky enough to catch three of them, and they just so happened to all be different species. Easter Trifecta

Downtown Morgantown is producing some fish right now, bites are hard to come by but it is always like that, very tough fishery for sure. My friend and I are fishing it 3 days in a row, today was our second day out. So far we have caught 4 bass over 12". Tuff for sure but it definitely makes you a better angler to stick it out and keep your head up. Won't have long tomorrow but we should be able to get the kayaks out for a little while in the morning before the storms roll in. I have class in the green building to the left of the spinnerbait line tie!

We caught two more today on spinnerbaits while bass fishing

Today my friend and I spent 5 hours on the river here in Morgantown in kayaks. We had more opportunities at musky than bass over 12", which is typical. I caught a musky on a finesse jig (watched it eat the bait when I was swimming it in), my friend caught one on a spinnerbait, I lost one on a spinnerbait, and had one follow it to the kayak but I wasn't figure 8ing because well I was fishing a spinnerbait for bass. We did catch two smallmouth between 1&2lbs and several largemouth and spots around 8-11". The river here is seriously infested with them, it's not even a surprise anymore to hook one. I caught my first musky in August last year, and today I landed my 20th!

They like rock and gravel, they are more likely to be on the main lake than in a creek, they like brighter colors and are more aggressive than largemouth, but you are also more likely to catch a big smallmouth on a tiny bait than a big largemouth on a tiny bait. Smallies will always eat a jerkbait!

I trolled two Alabama rigs from a kayak and hooked a fish on both rigs at the same time, and landed them both

I got my costas as a prize in a tournament I fished. Then they flew off my head into 30 FOW on Lake Anna within a month of getting them. No more costas for me because I'd rather get a cheap pair and a new rod than just a pair of glasses! They sure were nice though

I fish a spinnerbait when there is wind, dirty water, or current. If the water is clear, or still, the swim jig is the go-to.

Found a couple on beds today, managed to catch one before a thunderstorm chased me off the lake, I didn't paddle fast enough and had to hunker down in a low spot while it passed, but made it back in one piece!

Today my West Virginia PB moved from 3.94 to 4.51... Definitely earned this one, I had a bit of a morning flurry, but after that I went 6 hours with 2 bites, this being one of them!

The only guy who can pull off a username with "senko" in it! Keep up the good work Kyle.

Yes. The fish that (measurements-wise) was probably over the 10lb mark that I caught last February was definitely the biggest bass I have ever hooked. Kind of disappointing after you get one that big and realize how slim the odds are of breaking it again. Hope it happens for me one day though!

Any black and blue swimbait with a lot of thump would do the trick. I always fish trailers on chatterbaits.

The waters I have fished for smallmouth have shad. As far as numbers, I would say most of my smallmouth have come on a light texas rigged senko or finesse worm, since I am typically fishing moving water. But nearly all of my bigger (18" plus) smallies have come on a sizable moving bait. I caught a 19" on a swimjig, I've caught several 19" on a war eagle double willow spinnerbait, my recent 19" ate a squarebill. My pb that weighed 4.2lbs but taped out at 23" ate a lite trout s-waver 168, they hammer that thing under the right conditions. I caught a 19" on it as well and several smaller fish.

Can't go wrong with the tried and true z man. You could go white/chart but I tend to stick to darker colors for chatterbaits when I fish dirty water. Spinnerbaits on the other hand I would be using white/chart with a single Colorado blade.

Black and blue 3/8 !

Got some rain and snow at the end of this week so the water was up and pretty dirty. 2-3' vis at best. Somehow found a school of them in 30FOW. Caught them on keitech swing impact 4" on 1/4 and 3/8oz heads. Weird fishing here in WV.

I like them a whole lot. The colors are great, the action is great, and they cast a mile. The hooks they come with are something else too, I think there are a lot of jerkbait bites on a slack line that we never see, and the razor sharp, thin hooks with an outbarb combat this. If bass can eat and reject a crankbait without us knowing, they can probably do all kinds of stuff on a slack line.

There might not be as many limits weighed as there would if weather had been stable, but someone will find them. I would go wherever I thought the fish would be if the weather had been stable, back off a little, and slow down.