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Down for a short trip and found them shallower than expected. Caught one early yesterday on a whopper plopper but that was it. Started throwing the glide bait. Other than a few jig fish in the laydowns along the way, most were glide bait fish in less then 5’. On or near points with steeper banks or a decent drop off. Tried drop shot and jig head minnow with ffs but just a few short spotted bass.

(Tournament Pros are sold) Thanks Randy. I’ll take good care of them and hope to add to their storied history. Appreciate the generous offer.

I fish it like a shallow spinner bait. I prefer the jackhammer, specifically the stealth shown in the picture with the clear blade. It’s more subtle and starts vibrating immediately on the first crank.

Fished out of Port of Kimberling the 19th through the 22nd. Water temp was 69-70 and tanic in the coves with maybe 2’ of visibility to start the week. Caught 7-9 each day and had to work hard for them. A little of everything. Walking bait early against the bank. Shad spawn was going on but no big schools of fish chasing them. Just ones and twos. Jigs in laydowns and bladed jig shallow after that. Stayed away from the main lake the first few days due to wind. Also threw a big gizzard shad glide bait but not even a follow. The weather broke and I moved to main lake points, ends of coves and bluff ends. Caught them on a wobble head slowly ticking the rocks. Dragging and taking up slack like a c rig. Fish were in 8-9’ consistently. Caught some with ffs on the shallow run outs but had to waste a bunch of time to get any to bite. Switched the glidebait to a pumpkin seed bluegill and had several follows and 2 good fish the last afternoon. Will upload some pics shortly.

What Bill said. And these…. Good luck.

I’m in and paid with Venmo. Thanks for continuing to coordinate each year. David

From what I hear Babler would need to ref that one.

Bluegill yesterday. A few follows on gizzard and bone. They t-boned bone today.

A few more from this morning on the glide plus a good drop shot spot a few days ago. Connor’s blue gill glide, maybe Brett’s😉, was the deal yesterday. We fished separately this am but caught up on the lake for a bit. A fun few days.

@SupremeJCK and I have been chatting about glide baits this last year. He reached and we connected this morning to throw just glide baits. 2-1 him. He caught the biggest and had a really good smallmouth come unpinned near the boat and had two other really big smallmouth follows back to the boat. He’s a good dude. Had a great time, learned some tricks and look forward to doing it again.

I fished last few days hoping for any stragglers still shallow or moving out. Other than a decent jig fish Thursday night when I got down, I couldn’t catch them shallow. I moved out and found some good ones on the main lake with a drop shot. They aren’t schooled up or really chasing shad. Just hanging out in ones and two’s. The yum minnow worked much better than finesse worm. Water temp was 78-79. Not really clear with a green tint. Boat traffic wasn’t as bad as I was expecting.

Sorry to hear about the lost PB. You caught some good ones though.

How do you like the Spro version compared to the original?

Thanks for sharing. And congrats again.