March 2nd, Shad rapping it around Big M

On 3/2/2018 at 6:33 PM, Quillback said:

Water is still dirty brown around Big M, not as many leaves in the water and not a lot of big stuff in the main channel, but keep an eye out when you are motoring as there are a few big pieces of wood out in the channel.

I started off the morning throwing a Menace Grub on a 3/8 oz swing jig, caught my first fish on it, lost another one, then snagged up and broke it off.  Both bites were right up on the bank, so I decided to switch to a #5 Shad Rap.  I had noticed something Bo said in his report about the fish hitting his crank bait near the boat, so I thought it would be worth it to throw the minnow rather than bounce a crank off the bottom.  Decent bite on the Shad Rap, very shallow fish, mostly dinks, but a lot of fun on the light spinning gear.  Fish were in the muddy water, right on the bank.  Caught a couple dozen with 4 keepers.  Threw the Ned for a bit and caught one spotted bass on it.

Had one hard puller that got off, I thought I had snagged a big limb, drug it towards the boat for maybe 2 seconds, just dead weight like a big limb, and then it started head shaking and pulling drag.  Had it on for another 5 seconds or so and then it just pulled off.  Didn't see what it was, I hate big mystery fish that get off.

About 10 of my fish were smallmouth, all up very shallow.

Fishing got slow around noon, I was out of there at 2 PM.

A lot of boats out there today, I saw several bass caught by other fishermen.

WT 48-50.

A couple of pics, they didn't come out too well in the bright sun.

 

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Very nice, what did you have on when you lost the "hard puller"?

Thanks for the report, M&M.

8 hours ago, dan hufferd said:

Very nice, what did you have on when you lost the "hard puller"?

It was on the Shad Rap.

Very nice Quillback! I love a little #5 shad rap this time of year. One little bait that I've had a lot of luck with in similar conditions to the shad rap is the little Duo Realis Shad 62DR. Cast much better than a shad rap with the weight transfer system, runs about the same depth, but is a bit pricey for a little bait.

That Duo looks pretty nice.