St. Lawrence River

[Bill Babler]

Difference between KVD and Skeet on the jerk bait. Did you all notice the other day how fast KVD was fishing that jerk bait? 

He was on TV for over an hour so we got a good look at his presentation. I think in the words of the great Bill Beck he was not fishing, but throwing it out and winding it in. I timed his cast and some were as short as 7 seconds most between 12 and 20 seconds. 

Skeet was way more patient with his cast, taking as much as 3 minutes per throw, turning its head in rapid succession, but not moving great distance with each rod sweep as KVD was. 

Here is the reason Skeet caught close to 100 pounds on it and KVD did not and I do not even presume to tell Kevin how to fish a jerker. 

Those fish were on beds and the longer the bait stays in the proximity of those beds the greater the chance for an aggressive strike. You move the bait so fast through the strike zone there isn't even a chance for a reaction bite. 

Even if you can't see the beds and are just covering water He was just to hyped up being behind that I believe he speed/power fished himself out if the tournament. 

Anyone that saw his last hour let us know your thoughts. 

[Quillback]

I didn't watch enough myself, but I did see Skeet land one on a jerk bait.  Every time I see KVD work the jerker, whether it's a fishing show or a tourney, he always works it like a mad man.  

[Bill Babler]

If you thought he was reeling that XD fast on Chick he was moving the stick faster. Not turning its head, but big sweeping pulls and jerks,  reeling that 7 to 1 as fast as he could turn the handle.

Didn't work out for him this time. Just think it was way to fast as other competitor were moving it much slower and hammering them. 

I'm kind of a stick bait fanatic so it really interested me. 

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2 hours ago, Quillback said:

I didn't watch enough myself, but I did see Skeet land one on a jerk bait.  Every time I see KVD work the jerker, whether it's a fishing show or a tourney, he always works it like a mad man.  

I was on the river last week smallie fishing an especially nice run that always holds fish.  Boulders scattered across the bottom in decent current.  I went through a bunch of baits without a bite and I was getting ready to leave and reeling in a whacky yamasenko when a smallie smashed it.  I hit the spot lock and worked that rig like KVD does a jerkbait and those smallie's just killed it.  Fun for about an hour...

[Quillback]

That is interesting Pete.  I never have fished a wacky Senko fast, but have had a few chase it in on the retrieve, probably should have learned something from it.

Got a BassBlaster email today, didn't have Wheeler's baits in there, but mentioned that Skeet was throwing a Pointer 78 DD in Table Rock Shad.

 

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42 minutes ago, Quillback said:

That is interesting Pete.  I never have fished a wacky Senko fast, but have had a few chase it in on the retrieve, probably should have learned something from it.

Got a BassBlaster email today, didn't have Wheeler's baits in there, but mentioned that Skeet was throwing a Pointer 78 DD in Table Rock Shad.

 

Fast Snap snap pause a second, snap snap pause. 

[Bill Babler]

That bait of Skeet's looked suspiciously like a megabass. 

When they were at the Rock I know Bobby Lane kept saying he was fishing a Berkley bait when he was fishing a 4" Yamamoto cut tail cinnamon/purple drop shot worm. 

Unless you have a freeze frame picture of a bait it's hard to tell what they are doing. 

They might have accidentally disremembered what exact bait they had on. 

I know they would never try and represent a sponsor's bait in lue of really fishing something else😇  

[Quillback]

I never got a good look at his bait, but I know that "Table Rock Shad" color is kind of a yellow/chartreuse side on Megabass baits, and a white side with a purple top on Lucky Craft baits.  His bait sure did look like it had some yellow in it, but that was based on just watching Skeet make a couple of casts.

[Bill Babler]

I was just kind of going by the bill configuration and it looked really slender like a mega. Can't swear one way or the other. What ever it was he just about caught 100 lbs. on it. 

[willyfish]

Anyone know of a good guide on Lake Erie around Cleveland? Also who are the outfitters on St Lawrence? 

Shakeyheadz Lake Erie Fishing Guides - Lake Erie Fishing Guide & Charter Service found this guy just surfing around