Short days you got to find 'em quick.... 1/6/23

[Steve McBasser]

Made my first cast at straight up 10am. Went there to find the deep fish and did so almost immediately. Never caught a blade bait fish in my life until Friday. Weird bite but I loved it. Caught quality fish too.....Find fish on the graph first. Rather than vertical fishing, back off of your school about 3/4 of a cast. Pitch to them and let the blade go all the way to the bottom. Jig up about 2 1/2 feet and let it fall, reel in the slack... Repeat. Bite usually comes on the pull up, not on the fall. When you jig up you will feel a very pronounced vibration of the blade. You're doing it right. Put in at Campbell Point and ran up Big Creek. Can't wait to get back out there. Hope ya'll are getting to fish too. 

[dtrs5kprs]

Love catching them on that clinky metal junk.

Nice work.

[Quillback]

Way to go!  

[bluebasser86]

Caught a couple nice ones out of some 39* water here in NE KS yesterday. The biggest one had mud on her belly when she hit the surface and ate the bait hard while it sitting motionless on the bottom. I was doing very short lifts and drops. It's a bait I'm still learning but it is a fun bait to fish when they'll eat it. 

[Quillback]

I have hardly ever fished a blade, but you guy are twisting my arm.

[Steve McBasser]

I had thrown it a few times but had never had a bite on it until Friday. It is so much fun to learn a new bait and technique. I am totally green on this thing but so far I'm loving it. Can't wait to get back out there and do it again. 

[cheesemaster]

6 hours ago, Quillback said:

I have hardly ever fished a blade, but you guy are twisting my arm.

I bought 2 of them to try. I will let you know how it goes. I am sure I will NOT give them a fair chance before going back to a jerk bait. 😩

[Quillback]

17 minutes ago, cheesemaster said:

I bought 2 of them to try. I will let you know how it goes. I am sure I will NOT give them a fair chance before going back to a jerk bait. 😩

That's what I say when I start throwing a jerk bait.  I give it about 5 casts and then back to something I have confidence in.  😄

[dtrs5kprs]

12 hours ago, Quillback said:

I have hardly ever fished a blade, but you guy are twisting my arm.

Little jokers work. Have had a lot of fun with them around Baxter in November/December.

[bluebasser86]

This was my biggest on Monday. Bait was sitting motionless on the bottom and she really thumped it in 6' of water right next to my kayak. Shot a big puff of mud from her gills from inhaling the bait off the bottom when she hit the surface. Just a hair under 20". I'm still learning them but it really amazes me how many of the fish I catch on them are when it's completely motionless on the bottom.