Fishing Forum

Took a day of vacation Monday to try to figure out how to catch a smallmouth in 40 ft of gin clean water and put a little break in time on the new outboard on the Ranger i have restored. I rode around watching the electronics looking for fish off points and such and marked a couple of what I thought might be small schools of smallmouth in about 27 fow. I tied on a very tiny plastic "minner" called a damiki after I found my reading glasses so I could see how to tie a knot w in some fluro that seemed thinner than what little hair I have left. sO after about 30 minutes of twitching that little minner on their noses I had two nice crappie and a white bass. Finally figured out this type of fishing is not my strength not sure what a school of smallmouth would look like on the screen anyway <br />so I tied on a spinnerbait on some man sized line and caught three in the back of pockets burning a spinnerbait . Water temp was 54 and those three were not in five feet of water.