Alright Yall. Gonna attempt a fishing report for Smithville lake. Video is in production. Now I didn’t setup my lowrance so I don’t know about temps and depths. Just wanted to start fishing. This was my first time here. I like to explore.
I caught a new Personal Best Pickerel 25 ¼ inches. This lake seems to be a pickerel sanctuary. Guy on the dock said he caught a 26” there last year. But also said he has never caught any bass, while I caught several.
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I focused on flipping and pitching cover and heavy vegetation. Man that little split in the base of the lilly pad is annoying!! I caught most fish in 6-1ft of water. Only a few off of structure that I could visibly see.
Top water bite was on. I caught my first frog fish, on the Spro pivot frog. Good concept, however takes considerable work to get it across pads without getting hung. The better presentation was a weightless worm drug over the tops of pads. That produce more strikes…..and I used that as a search bait before punching the pads.
I did get three good hook ups on a black on black chatter bait. But lost all three!
I used the Yum Beaver/creature bait in Okeechobee. I burned through them…would only get one hook up per bait. But they make good crappie jig head trailers when you split them down the middle.
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Colors:
Black/Blue Pickerel
Desert Cammo (pickerel favorite) Bass liked too
Okeechobee (My favorite) bass and pickerel
Purple worm...Bass liked
Other baits were Missile baits Baby D bomb, Fishhog worm, Big Bite Baits, Big D bomb, and Z man lizard. No strikes on the lizard, but didn’t fish it much.
3/8oz tungsten weight and 3/0 flipping hook. Landed well on the pads and allowed it to be drug off into the gaps. Nice and soft.
Lost more fish than I caught! Weak hooksets, line cuts. Had pickerel cut 17lb fluro and 50lb braid. Should've retied both.
I caught a new Personal Best Pickerel 25 ¼ inches. This lake seems to be a pickerel sanctuary. Guy on the dock said he caught a 26” there last year. But also said he has never caught any bass, while I caught several.
PB Pickerel.jpg
I focused on flipping and pitching cover and heavy vegetation. Man that little split in the base of the lilly pad is annoying!! I caught most fish in 6-1ft of water. Only a few off of structure that I could visibly see.
Top water bite was on. I caught my first frog fish, on the Spro pivot frog. Good concept, however takes considerable work to get it across pads without getting hung. The better presentation was a weightless worm drug over the tops of pads. That produce more strikes…..and I used that as a search bait before punching the pads.
I did get three good hook ups on a black on black chatter bait. But lost all three!
I used the Yum Beaver/creature bait in Okeechobee. I burned through them…would only get one hook up per bait. But they make good crappie jig head trailers when you split them down the middle.
bait.jpg
Colors:
Black/Blue Pickerel
Desert Cammo (pickerel favorite) Bass liked too
Okeechobee (My favorite) bass and pickerel
Purple worm...Bass liked
Other baits were Missile baits Baby D bomb, Fishhog worm, Big Bite Baits, Big D bomb, and Z man lizard. No strikes on the lizard, but didn’t fish it much.
3/8oz tungsten weight and 3/0 flipping hook. Landed well on the pads and allowed it to be drug off into the gaps. Nice and soft.
Lost more fish than I caught! Weak hooksets, line cuts. Had pickerel cut 17lb fluro and 50lb braid. Should've retied both.
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