Big Bite Bass

Scott was in town with his daughter and wanted something to do while she visited her friends. Why not head out fishing! We were going to have a great day as the temps had dropped a bit and it wasn’t going to be a scorcher! Bass were on the feed and I hoped to get him into some bigguns!

Although we spent the first couple of hours in search of sturgeon, it didn’t happen. Some nibbles were had but not from the right species, so we called it on the dinosaurs for the day!

I had him trying something he hadn’t done before and he caught on quickly. We were dropshotting deeper water and he managed to boat several good smallies. We covered plenty of water in search of the larger bass and were rewarded several times. Once I felt that the water had been covered effectively, I decided to bring him shallower in hopes of more big smallies.

We fished a couple of different areas with soft plastics and he nailed more big bass. Some of them were sight fished and he really enjoyed that! He was able to convince a few fish into eating boatside by changing the cadence of the bait. This also gave him confidence in using a bait that he had never used before!