Grand slam maybe…

[Dutch]

What do you think this little guy is?

[dtrs5kprs]

Looks like a meanie.

[cheesemaster]

52 minutes ago, dtrs5kprs said:

Looks like a meanie.

Agree!!

[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

looks mean to me

[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

Where were you at? That water looks pretty clean

[Dutch]

That is also what I thought.  I had lmb,smb, spots and that one.  I caught from 1 to 10 fish every place I stopped.  I didn’t have a lot of keepers but did have a lot of fun.  TRDs with Jades Jigs especially the mud minnow was the best bait.  This 4# was the best of the day.  

[Dutch]

10 minutes ago, aarchdale@coresleep.com said:

Where were you at? That water looks pretty clean

Between Wooly and Piney.  The farther down the cleaner.  There is still a lot of tannic acid around.

[Jadesjigs]

@Dutchlooks like a great time!  Had a similar trip earlier this week before the rain came in.  A lot of small bucks with a few good ones mixed in.

 

Drifting Neds with both standard and Ewg jigs on wind blown banks produced well. The most eye opening thing for me though is that I could not land a fish on my usual 3" finesse baits. However, you could catch fish after fish on the larger 4" big trd style baits. 

 

I don't know if I could just detect the bites better on a windy day with the bigger baits, or if the fish preferred the size more.  It always amazes me how much of a difference the slightest adjustments make.  Thanks for the report @Dutch

[Dutch]

Glad you had a good trip.  Mine are all the regular TRDs.  I don’t have any of the larger ones.

[Jadesjigs]

@DutchI never used them much before either until I watched my buddy catch fish after fish using the big trd.  I was getting skunked using the exact same colors of finesse trd. After I started catching them on big trd I even went back to finesse trd just to see and nada.

 

I wondered if the bigger bait also gave me slightly more time to set the hook a little better on those ewg neds.  Needless to say, I'm heading over to bp after this event is over to load up!