Two mornings of jerking Taney

[duckydoty]

Fished the jerk bait on a trip yesterday morning and then again this morning with a friend from high school and his son.  I was in Boy Scouts with this friend and his father was our Scout Master.  I had the pleasure of taking them on a meet hunt yesterday afternoon too. Three generations of them.  Anyways, back to the jerk bait fishing.  Both mornings were cold and no wind with water running.  Yesterday was 1/2 unit and this morning they had it up to 3 for a bit.  The bite was crazy good.  Yesterday a 20 inch rainbow, several smaller ones, a couple of stinking bass, and one big brown lost right at the boat.  Today was good also.  We boated 6 small mouth, 3 kentuckies, a 23 inch walleye, one 20 1/4 inch rainbow, a 15 inch brown and several 12-17 inch bows.  Best bite was from cable to outlet 3.  Good bites on the north side, south side and right down the middle. Threw custom painted mega bass 110 +1 knock off baits in French pearl, ghost shad and rainbow trout flavors.  I love some moving water this time of year.

The meet haul yesterday afternoon on the pink power worm

Yesterday mornings big bow

and some stinkin bass

 

Some of the fun from this morning 

He made it home with me

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[Terrierman]

Two really good Taneycomo days right there.

[BilletHead]

               Whoop, whoop!

Nice report there buddy,

BilletHead's

[JestersHK]

Way to get it done buddy!  Sure seems like allot of smallies are hanging out up there.  

Glad you all put a hurting on them.  Pretty bows too!

[Johnsfolly]

Hope that those bass didn't touch the deck😁. Some nice fish for you guys. Good looking walleye! Congrats. Seems like they loved that running water. 

[trythisonemv]

Question Mr doty... could a person do this from shore very effectively?

[duckydoty]

DJ and Brandon can attest to how effective jerkbaits can be from shore.

 

[JestersHK]

1 hour ago, trythisonemv said:

Question Mr doty... could a person do this from shore very effectively?

To Duane's evidence above I'll say I fish them more while wading than I ever have from a boat.

I also can say I've fished them more at night than during the day.  

[MOBass]

Mind if I ask what pound line and what type of retrieve you are using on the jerkbaits?

[duckydoty]

1 hour ago, MOBass said:

Mind if I ask what pound line and what type of retrieve you are using on the jerkbaits?

6 pound trilene xl.  Some good jerks to get it down then twitches and pauses.