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Back to back weekends on the water with great weather. Madi didn't have that much for homework/projects this weekend so she was ready for a day on the water. Headed out with targeting Smallies in mind so headed to spots more to their liking since trying to find the LMB kicked my tail last weekend.

Worked. Well at least better than last weekend. Still nothing like last year this same time but a fish is a fish. We landed 18 total. Only 2 were LMB.

If one doesn't like to drop shot then one isn't going to catch much. It was pretty much drop shot and catch or don't catch. Super picky. Same spots Madi would be roping them in on the DS and I would drop down a grub and jig it. She was catching I wouldn't get a nibble. Weird... Both of the LMB were caught on a grub off steep cliff walls. NOTHING was seen by eye or on the sonars in anything less than ~15 feet of water. TONS of bait balls in the back of the coves and zero bass chowing down in them.

Only 2 of the Smallies were caught on something other than a drop shot. Done this before with LMB but a first for SMB. One cast, one crank and 2 hooks did the job [cool]


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Rite on man. Nice day of smallie action. That double is awesome and they look like nice size. Bet that was fun!
Thanks for the report I may try up north next weekend.
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Certainly two of the better Smallies of the day if not the best two.

They hit like a freight train. I was fairly sure it was a decent Striper on the other end of the line. Go figure Madi was behind the boat cooling off on a swim so I was on my own. It was a mad mind scramble on how to get them in. I wanted the picture! I've had doubles come off at the boat before so I knew speed was critical and not to let them jump. So I skipped the net and grabbed the line when I got them close to the surface and in one quick and fluid motion into the boat before even a wiggle out of either.

Where I was at when I caught the double would be a 50/50 decision on the launch ramp... Launch from Callville or Echo.
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Your location is where I would likely go this time of year. Mixing it up walls with chunk rock slides and looking for deep weedbeds

Agree on the drop shots also. Grubs rule as choice #1 this time of the season.
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