Banner River Trip

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I got on the water at 10:30 and ran about 8-9 miles to fish my way back.  I caught 5 fish the first hour hour and a half.   One being the state record smallie that transitioned to a drum at the boat.   Stinkin woke fish😆.

Mitch gave me a BUNCH of his Tackle Max fugitive swim baits (white) and I bought some of his mullet head jigs (PBJ) last week.  Those and a chartreuse/blue back crank is all I used.   

 

I was alternately between the 3 baits as I went.  I’ve never caught a bass on a swim bait BTW.   Kietech or rage swimmer.  

About noon, someone flipped the switch and it was fish after fish for the next 3 hours.  If I caught one, I would hit spot lock and usually catch 1 or 2 more in the same area.  Sometimes 3 or 4 more.   From 14” to the biggest, a fat 19”er.  3 18”s and the 19”.  Plus a bunch of 14-16 inch fish.  Probably 30 fish total after counting all my photos.  

Here’s pictures of the nicer ones.   16” to 19” fatty.

That fugitive swim bait bite is awesome.  I like to fish top down and fast to slow so reeling that swimmer is a great bite.  You can feel the tail thump.  Some of them fully inhaled it to the point I had to retie it several times.  

I threw it on 7’ medium fast st croix spinning rod with a 3/16 VMC moon eye.  I only used one all day.   The smaller one.  

 

[Terrierman]

Nice trip.  White was the thing for the boys trip that I posted earlier.  Actually a white 3/16 zig jig, with red wrap.  What seemed odd was the fish were all puking and crapping crawdad parts.

[Quillback]

Man, you CRUSHED them!

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9 minutes ago, Quillback said:

Man, you CRUSHED them!

First time for everything!

[Mitch f]

39 minutes ago, Quillback said:

Man, you CRUSHED them!

I’m gonna start calling him the fugitive 😂