Mid Lake - May 12 - new twist for deep swimbait

[Dock-in-it]

During the cold months I routinely fished swimbaits with 1/2 and 5/8 oz jig heads.

I wanted to see how the heavy jig heads would work during the post spawn and I have been pleasantly surprised. Been throwing a 1/2 oz tungsten jig with a 3.8 Keitech using 15# line on a med hvy casting rod. It is kinda fun to make a solid hook set. The 3.8 size seems to keep the dinks at bay.

The 1/2 oz  makes it easy to keep the bait down where the deeper fish hangout. I set my graph at 40' and routinely see bass swim down below the 40' mark.

The main technique(for me)  to trigger deep fish is casting beyond the fish and retrieve the bait well above their head so they have to swim upward for several ft (8 to 15) and then speed up the retrieve as they get close to the bait.

The water color around Kimberling Bridge is a dark brown and it is just plain brown around point 6 . I assume the water has a brown tint beyond pt5. The water color seems to be a combination of James river dirt, turnover,  and algae bloom. I have fished around Baxter and the water looked good. ⁰

The visibility seems to be 18 to 24 inches but I caught several fish this morning that were 40' down and they would react upward to my bait when the bait was 10-15 away.

WT 69