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Dirty jigs Guppy heads, the 3/0 hooks do have a longer shank than the 1/0.

Yep, size of bait - I use the Dirty Jigs Guppy heads also. One big reason is they have a 1/0 hook that I use with 1/8 oz head and 1/4 oz head. I put 2.8 on the 1/8 oz and 3.3 on the 1/4. Using a shorter 1/0 hook leaves more body on the smaller Keitechs to swing free so it will really kick on a slow retrieve. Longer baits like the 3.8 and 4.3, I'll use a 3/0 hook and you can find 3/0 hooks from a lot of manufacturers, what is hard to find are 1/0 hooks on swimbait jig heads. I haven't looked at the Berkley half-head yet. And don't forget the superglue.

When he launches at 1030 PM, I have probably been asleep for 2 hours at least.

Some great smallies there too.

Way to go fellas, some very nice fish ya'll caught!

Yep, lots of fish being caught out there by people, it is good to see.

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They are still biting. Early in the AM I was catching fish out a little deeper, had my boat in 20 FOW and kept seeing fish on the graph so I started swimming the Keitech out deep, it was almost all spots out there and for most of the day the Keitech produced spots with an occasional largemouth and one meanmouth. Never caught a smallmouth today. Swing jig with the Menace Grub got some bites, but they were real squirrely bites, probably missed 15 bites on that thing and only boated 2 or 3. Did some cranking with a DT-6, didn't get a lot of bites with it, but caught 3 keeper largemouth on the DT. Those fish were pretty shallow off chunky rock banks. The bass seem to be almost everywhere, main channel points and chunk rock banks and back in the coves. Lots of little males sitting on beds. Caught a couple of walters on the Keitech and one was a keeper. Surface temps were at 56 when I left.

Could've used that bighead in this skit. Warning: it is really stupid.

Point taken on the tube, I'll have to give it a shot.

That's pretty neat getting on the JB bite!

Wow! There's a few there.

Riley's Station is right near Buffalo City, several lodging options to chose from and they rent boats.

Nice one buddy!

I don't know why they fish there, they talk like a lot of the guys will have to make 2 hour runs to get to decent fishing.

Retirement has its benefits. 🙂

Lower end must be just fishing tough, I know a good fishermen who also fished up there during the BBT and he said it was really tough. Must be because of all those shad, those things are a blessing and a curse.

I use a 3/8 oz head for a Menace Grub, I like to drag it with my rod, then reel in the slack and repeat.

Forgot to add, something I saw that I never saw before - Had a 12"spot on, saw about 8 fish chasing him in, thought it was a bunch of spots, but when I got the bass close I could see that they were all big gizzard shad. Only thing I can think is they (the shad) thought that bass was one of their own doing some sort of spawning maneuver.

They are really biting. Top water early, then I switched to 3.3 Keitechs and swing jigs with Menace Grubs, with a handful on a shaky head. Yesterday they didn't like the Keitechs but they were back after them today. I switched from Rainbow Shad to Sexy Shad with a chartreuse jig head, don't know if it was the color change or the fish decided they liked Keitechs again, but they were after them today. Quite a few of the bigger female spots were staging on points leading into coves along with a few keeper size largemouth. There are also fish in the coves. Seems like most fish are within casting distance of the bank. Gravel is holding some. Caught a crappie that almost went 15" and a couple of just short walleye to boot.

So many reports of good fishing, which is good to see, but I don't have much to add. Fish are biting, they are in shallow, mostly small male spots that are setting up housekeeping with surface water temps near 60. Caught most fish in front of buck brush and on gravel. Shallow, 5-10 FOW. Menace grub on a swing jig, shaky head with worm and an early top water bite. Biggest fish was a smallie that might have made 3 lbs, it absolutely blew up on the top water. Keitech bite was not on today, they tore it up last week, today I think I caught one bass on it. This spot has a hook hanging out of it's belly, didn't notice it until I looked at the pic, which is too bad as I could've gotten it out - don't know how I missed it. Caught a lot of these dudes:

Very nice, cool to see you get some money fish!

They don't get much bigger than that.

Love those smallies!

Ketchup in my case. But I do like malted vinegar I'll have to have some next time. I like tartar sauce on a fish sandwich but not big on it otherwise.