Firstly – I’m apologizing to my wife right now for now having my PFD on first thing in the morning.  I’ll make no excuse.

 Got out yesterday onto one of the larger bodies of water I fish.  Weather was nice, warm with a decent NW breeze. I was a little surprised to find that the surface water temps were still in the low 70’s. Accordingly the bite was still a little deeper than I expected for the second week of September with most if not all of the action coming from 15 – 22 feet. The drop shot craw and a jig & craw provided a solid one two punch; Drop shot in the open water areas and for use near cover and the jig & craw in and through the greenest deep weeds I could find. The wind blown end of the lake had an excellent bite come on mid-day.  Both the Largemouth & Smallmouth were being very cooperative.  

 

Fighting decent bass on light line in & around cover (in this case 6 lb leader around deep timber) is always challenging.  Over the years I’ve learned to position my craft & present my bait to put the odds in my favor.  It takes some fore thought but it’s worth it.  One of the advantages of the smaller boat is that once hooked up, it does allow me to quickly maneuver away from danger.  Often times this means heading to deep water which on most of my home water, is often very close by.  Buy loosening the drag a bit I end up “Towing” these bass a short way.  This has resulted in less break offs and pulled hooks both which were the result of having to pressure bass to keep them away from whatever mess they were heading to in order to earn their freedom.  Can’t blame them though, they don’t know the plan is catch & release.

Here’s the best green and the best two brown bass of this trip. Every fish was Fat.  Could be a banner fall.

A-Jay

 

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Very nice fish!  I concur the fall might be epic with those fatties!

 

Jeff

Nice fishing. I found myself paying attention to the background, though, trying to see if I recognized the lake...

Great fish!

AND, I'm always amazed at how stable your boat is!!

Thanks for the  details . 

                                                                                                                               

 

                                                                                                                     

Awesome

Some tanks in that video!

I enjoyed watching that AJ. Thanks for sharing. I'm hoping for a good fall bite too.

Enjoyed watching