I went this past weekend camping on the peace river. The water was really cold but I thought I would give it a try. Fished the river before on previous trips that are usually in November so going in December was a first. 

 

knowing the water was going to be really cold and mostly shallow in most parts of the river we were at I setup my Rod to start throwing soft plastics into cover and deep water. I rigged up a swimbait in the color called baby bass. 

After walking the bank and finding a nice bass hiding in cover I threw in the swim bait but the bass kept getting spooked. seeing what was going on I decided to throw a super fluke . it was a pearl white / chartues tail rigged on a 3/0 wide gap eagle hook with a 1/8th bullet weight on 30 # leader and 30# braid. 

First cast I made towards the pocket and hooked the bass and what a fight. Ended up catching my personal best of 3lbs. Fished the next day with the same setup but with a different color fluke called baby bass. Fished the banks and fallen trees and caught a couple of dinks nothing big but it was nice to have a weekend on the river we're I caught more then 1 small bass. I really recommend anyone fishing on peace river in this time of year to fish it slow and look for the fallen trees and deep pockets.

 

Nice going!

54 minutes ago, Bankbeater said:

Nice going!

Thanks man. the struggle to catch was real, but did my research and it helped.Only thing left to do is to get better at catching at the river.