Kim City - Mar 22nd - underspin on gravel with shad

[Dock-in-it]

I fished this afternoon for a few hrs and had the best trip of the year so far. I found a school of fish just inside a gravel cove that was feeding on a big school of shad. The shad were thick from 7 to 15ft then they thinned out between 15 and 25ft. This was an area protected from the wind and that allowed me to see shad flickering when idling into the cove. I used two different underspins to catch them. I positioned my boat in 30ft and threw a 3/8 oz to 10 ft and slowed rolled the bait. After catching a bunch, I put the boat in 22ft and threw a 1/4 oz to 6ft and found out the LM were shallower. It helped to have the bait real close to the bottom under most of the shad. If the bait hit the bottom it would get just enough slim to make the cast useless, so I messed up a lot casts. I had 28 keepers with a good mix of all species and some really nice LM (one was 5.10# and some 3s and 4s). I caught all the fish on a 30yd stretch and never moved the boat except to give them a rest. A few guys came in the cove so I stopped fishing and went to scout other gravel coves hoping to find the same stacked shad scenario. Yesterday morning I had 15 keepers on a 3" SB around trees with shad. Yesterday they would not pay the underspin much attention.

[Fishrman]

Great job Doc!!!

[Sprint21fter]

Impressive yet again!

[Nitro 750]

Great report, nice fish!!!!!!

[Fish24/7]

That's awesome

[Ham]

What a Spotted Bass!!!

[dtrs5kprs]

Careful with that K. It might explode.

[dwiebenga]

Great job!

[m&m]

Fun day for sure. Well done

Mike

[Bill Babler]

Good Grief is all I can say.