Following up yesterday's high water success, today I targeted a larger, wider pool and found them stacked up on the current seam. Overlining slowed the drift down. Action all day. Today I got 23 smallies in slightly more than 4 hours. All on float and fly. The fought really hard and a couple went slightly airborne, even lost one 17-18"er.. When I got back to the car I was shocked to see the temps had reached 50F+
Lesson: Not to neglect current seams, even in winter. I drifted the bait with open bail. Caught 33/36 smallies this weekend on one black/while/flash fnf jig before I lost it at the end.
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| 17.75" Smallmouth Bass |
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| 18.75" smallmouth bass |
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| 17.5" smallmouth bass |
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| 18" smallmouth bass |
23 SMB (18.75", 18", 17.75", 17.5", 16", 3 15-15.75")
Awesome! Love to see those smallies. Can't wait till the water opens up here MI.
ReplyDeleteVery nice! Hoping to get a little break in the weather up here. I don't mind higher water but ours is all chocolatey...
ReplyDeleteI saw you mentioned baitcaster in a previous post. What did you end up going with and what rod did you pair it with?
Thanks, Fellas.
ReplyDeleteKev- I bought a left handed retrieve Curado and have been playing with it all winter.
Rod is a custom 7'er on a rainshadow blank.
BT,
ReplyDeleteWhat do you think the water temps are? Still pretty cold up here with a mix of rain and snow.
Mark
Mark, I couldn't say but to venture a guess. There wasn't much sun to warm it up. But we did have high water on this flow that had run clear (for the flow level). It had rained 5 days earlier in the 50's- then 5 days of freezing, below freezing nights (20's) and one mid 40's.
ReplyDeleteMy guess based on their gusto would be solidly in the low 40's.
The previous weekend- on a much smaller creek we got 44.5F. It had gotten colder and a larger flow...