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Got on some very DEEP drop shot fish in the kayaks today

I would have put a pile of shrimp on ice. Absolutely nothing like fresh caught shrimp.

6lb seguar red label fluoro is thinner than 4lb mono, casts further, doesn't stretch like a rubber band, it's invisible, need I say more???

I needed a bass fix, so I headed to my neighbor's pond for a couple hours, since the moon was out and I could see pretty well. Tied on a Jackall Pompadour and went to work. I ended up landing 4 bass, all of them under 2lbs but at night it doesn't take a big one to get the blood pumping. What will get the blood pumping is when a beaver slaps his tail a few feet from your lure and your brain tells you it's the craziest topwater strike of all time before you realize what is going on. As A Jay has said in some of his recent posts about night fishing, you lose most of your vision so every other sense is incredibly heightened, making for a really neat experience.

I wish my spawned out fish looked like that one!

Walleyes on dry flies. Now that is something I have never heard before

I had an experience like that the other day, fish blowing up everywhere and would not touch a frog, it looked like they were keyed in on small shiners but it was in a very heavy hydrilla mat so you couldn't really throw a fluke or swimbait. We could get them to swirl on it or follow it but that was all.

My little brother caught one trolling a Manns stretch 15 from our boat in anna, and we have caught some nice ones on DD 22s, SK 6XD, and the bomber fat free shad that go 20+ trolling them from our kayaks. Down by the dike we troll jerkbaits and alabama rigs from our kayaks. I would probably just troll a couple heavy a-rigs and a couple deep diving crankbaits from our boat

Yup, my shakey head rod with some corn haha

The stripers in Anna pretty much run away from outboards and my dad needs to take our boat to Anna soon before we go to the beach and I was just seeing if there was any chance of using it to catch stripers. They don't like the 2 stroke sound effects haha

Good deal, you didn't troll with an outboard did you?

Kayak

Where'd you catch the stripers/how?

It is a very disorienting event when you go in the water from a kayak. I did it once when I lost my balance and had the choice of rolling it or bailing out while I could! Awesome fish

My brother and I headed to a local lake this morning to fish for some bass that are suspending and chasing shad fry. We only had about a 2 hour window before the wind kicked up and the fish quit chasing bait (the high pressure front also had something to do with the short-lived activity because normally they will school all day on this lake). We landed 7 between the two of us, a couple on a spook jr, some on a 4" keitech easy shiner on a jighead, and I actually caught two on a drop shot while "graph fishing". I had never successfully done that before but my dad's new fishfinder on his kayak is NICE so I could tell what was going on. My little brother had one chasing his spook come completely out of the water that looked to be 4 pounds or more, that was so close to his kayak that it splashed him! They were pretty much out in the middle of no where, flat bottom, the only thing we would see were some small balls of bait.

They are great fried and they don't have any parasites at all like smallies and bluegill from rivers During a tournament this week. Best flippin' hookset ever, that thing STOPPED my rod

That's Kyrazzy

I was on a local river last week, and the largemouth had pulled up on beds. I saw a nice male and a hefty female so I pulled my kayak up on the bank and snuck to them. The female showed zero interest and even though nothing except for my chest and head was visible over the boulder I hid behind to cast from, she would repeatedly swim down the bank and stare up at me for long periods of time. They don't get big by being stupid. I decided to catch the male anyways. After 15 minutes I brought him from nosing down on the white jig to wolfing it down and heading for deeper water. I caught him, then took him back to my kayak to release him in hopes that it would buy me some times to catch the female. She pulled up on the bed but the first few pitches she would leave. I found that if I laid the jig in the bed and waited for her to swim back, she would nose down on it but remained 6" away. After a few minutes of that she would finally stay on the bed. I tried bumping her nose to see if that would make her mad, but she did not like that at all and left the bed. When she came back I started swimming the jig a few inches in front of her nose. Her body language began to change and I knew I could get this fish to bite. I kept pitching the jig in the bed and I guess I found the "sweet spot" or whatever they call it. She picked up the jig by the trailer a couple times, and finally I got her to eat it. Well, I just rolled her, but on my very next pitch she still was aggressive and I figured this would give me a second opportunity. To my dismay, I watched as the male from earlier returned from the depths, the female left, and that was that.

I'm at WVU for orientation, but when we drove up yesterday I couldn't help but stop for a few on deep creek lake in MD since it was so pretty. Also caught some smallmouth and largemouth on the river here in Morgantown.

Try a 1/16th wacky jighead with a junebug trick worm

Don't feel bad, I heard 8lbs took a $2000 check in a recent tournament. On Anna I almost always stay in the clear water, and usually I'll be throwing something silly on a spinning rod. Drop shot, senko, weightless trick worm, 3.8" keitech, and most recently a ned rig are my go-to baits. When the fish get beat up 24/7/365 you can catch big fish on those baits. They are too afraid to hit most "normal" baits from my experience. My best bag in a tournament on Anna was 15lbs, all caught on a 4" purple smoke drop shot around docks. I caught a 4.3lb on a 3.8 keitech in the hot side, as well as my probably DD fish on a shakey head. Hot side is a completely different ballgame but it gets the same pressure when it's cold out and the big fish get smart. Typically 3 or more spinning rods on deck and a baitcaster or two to make myself feel better even though I probably won't touch them.

Kayak fishing is definitely risky but it sure is awesome when you land a big one from it. My brother lost one of the biggest bass I've ever seen the other day when she jumped and shook his spinnerbait. Leaving us with no choice but to GO BACK!

He does have a little head but I'm still thinking LMB

Yup my biggest smallie was 23" 4.2lbs. I feel your pain. But boy do they make a largemouth look like a wuss!

I know people are always using tubes and drop shots for smallies, but at least where I fish, the big ones don't have to be finessed. My biggest smallmouth have come on an s-waver 168 (23"), 2 on a war eagle spinnerbait (19"), and a white swimjig with a swimming fluke trailer (19").