Smallies Are Going Nuts!

[Hotdawg Guide Service]

The Smallies on the lower Lake are biting better than I have ever seen in my 35 years of guideing on The Big Bull. I have been out all week and on the White one day and the bite for smallie is AWESOME!! I am using Gitzits with a 1/4 ounce jighead holding the boat in 20-25 feet of using 8 pound flourocarbon on a spinning rod. Let it fall to the old brush line and move your bait slow.Also working well are lizards.The numbers we are catching are the best I have seen in years!! GOD Bless Hotdawg

[BrianS]

Yeah I am catching alot of them too. There are alot of 10-12 inchers in the lake now. Keepers are harder to come by or at least for me.

[Ham]

Hey Tim,

Is that smallie bite affected by time of day or weather conditions?

I'm wondering if I can get an early topwater bite and then pull out and try that smallie bite in the middle of a sunny afternoon or if I would be better served hitting the smalliies early and late.

Thanks, Ham

[Hotdawg Guide Service]

Hey Tim,

Is that smallie bite affected by time of day or weather conditions?

I'm wondering if I can get an early topwater bite and then pull out and try that smallie bite in the middle of a sunny afternoon or if I would be better served hitting the smalliies early and late.

Thanks, Ham

Working all day for me slow bait moving is the key with at least a 3/16 head preferably a 1/4 Hotdawg!

[Ham]

Thank you.

I'll try to get out there and give them a try sometime relatively soon.

I'll start with 1/4 oz and adjust if necessary and I'll start off crawling my soft plastic and try something different if I don't get bit.

[Mike Worley]

Don't forget to bring some Zoom lizards they are still catching bass & walleyes. 6" Green pumpkin is still working pretty good.