3/31/22 Man They Munched Today.

[Bill Babler]

Wow!!! Beautiful Brown. 
 

Wily, 3/4 is fine. I’m using a 5/8.  You really don’t fish it like a jig, you fish it like a crank bait and stay in constant contact with the bottom. 
Wind it just like you do a wart or slower. If you lose the bottom stop and let it settle then start slow cranking it again. 
Jaws yesterday were under 10’ and the bigger K’s were in 15’

Bite is you mostly lose contact with the bait or it gets heavy. Not traditional jig thump. 
 

Good Luck
 

 

[Smithvillesteve]

Unbelievable Bill. 5 smallies at 20+ lbs. Thats Seth Fieder stuff!!! Why do we fishermen have to suffer in rain, sleet and snow to catch fish?

[magicwormman]

5 hours ago, Smithvillesteve said:

Unbelievable Bill. 5 smallies at 20+ lbs. Thats Seth Fieder stuff!!! Why do we fishermen have to suffer in rain, sleet and snow to catch fish?

No pain.....................no gain!

[Bill Babler]

Didn't guide yesterday in the High pressure blue but one of the guys I took the day before had a 5.11 Small Jaw. 

Bluff end on an Arig. He had 5 other keepers in the KC area and thought his best 5 would have been a shade over 15 pounds. 

Said he only caught 8 fish in 10 hours, all on the Rig. 

Robbie Dotson told me last week he had friends catching 4 plus pounders all Winter. Must be a year or two class of good small mouth spawn that is producing these 4 plus pound fish.  Probably 2016 and 2017. 

I guess in the past Winter derby a lot of them were weighed in fishing deep. 

Good Luck

[dtrs5kprs]

2 hours ago, Bill Babler said:

Didn't guide yesterday in the High pressure blue but one of the guys I took the day before had a 5.11 Small Jaw. 

Bluff end on an Arig. He had 5 other keepers in the KC area and thought his best 5 would have been a shade over 15 pounds. 

Said he only caught 8 fish in 10 hours, all on the Rig. 

Robbie Dotson told me last week he had friends catching 4 plus pounders all Winter. Must be a year or two class of good small mouth spawn that is producing these 4 plus pound fish.  Probably 2016 and 2017. 

I guess in the past Winter derby a lot of them were weighed in fishing deep. 

Good Luck

18"-19" brown fish were thick on the ground last year, so it makes sense we'd start seeing 4# fish on the regular this year, barring loss.

[Smithvillesteve]

Where's good Ol Bo when we need him? He would have hauled some of these 4 lb smallies up to Eagle Rock!!