S-Waver... Grrrrrr

[Moswimb8slinger]

One thing I do know with the boats is the electronics. Use it to see what the WT is, find the fish (if they're deep) and turn it off. When the butt of my kayak is against the bank, i don't need the graph on. My buddy Kevin, Butch Brown, Mike Gilbert, Matt Magone, and Bill Siemantel all do this. It's just white noise to the bass (unnatural).

Fishing "uphill" creates a funnel, so does fishing a bait near or on the surface, parallel against bluffs, tree lines, and other obstructions(docks, the hull of the boat, etc), something that the bass can use to corner the prey. The reasons why I like fishing bigger chunk rock, boulders and ledge type areas, they have ambush points for the bass to hide in.

The Shine Glide looks great from the side, but look at it from the bottom or rear, that profile slims down compared to the straight-on side profile.

Last year in the late spring, I literally saw over 150 bass follow baits to the boat/kayak/shore, sometimes in groups (most I saw at once follow a S-waver to the bank was 9 Ky's between 2 and 3lbs). I once fished a brush pile in 10fow, the water was clear enough to see the top half of the pile, with a jig and craw then ran a spinnerbait by it, nothing. Threw the s-waver by it, 6 bass (mixed- LM, SM, and Ky's) over 3lbs came out of the pile to look at it. Since these encounters, I've learned a few things to do to try to get them to bite.

[Moswimb8slinger]

And I went out again this afternoon. Landed 2 on the BBZ1 Jr floater, lost one at the kayak. Then had another fish short line me on the Spro Rat 50, didn't get a hook in it.

[abkeenan]

You da man Richy.

[Moswimb8slinger]

Forgot to add, change the hooks out, the stock VMC's are crap and bend out on bigger fish. I put Gamakatsu 2x short shank round bends on mine. #2 on the 168 and 1/0 on the 200.