Switching it Up During the Post Spawn Funk

    Everyone has had those days when the bass are  in the post spawn stage and fish can go into short period of rest and cruising around.  Occasionally feeding, but mainly recovering from the rigors of the spawn.  I recently floated a section of river that a few male bass still guarding nest, with some females spotted hanging around wood a little deeper.  The males that were off the bed were feeding some while the big females were just seen cruising out off the banks.  Sometimes you have to switch it up through out the day when faced with these conditions. 
     I started the afternoon with a small largemouth bass on a KVD 1.5 square bill, that hit on my first cast down some rip rap rock.  The rocks on most of this float were covered in grass so I switched up to a 1/2oz, white spinner bait. This seemed to be a ticket to several buck bass through out the day.  The fish, like often happens after the spawn, were tight to wood in shallow water.  I began catching fish as I ran the spinner bait beside, over or into the wood.  It had to be tight to the wood though.  I saw several of my strikes and caught many of them on the trailer hook because of the finicky bite.  I managed four or five fish on that bait, with a few missed strikes.  I was determined to find a big fish that I could maybe get a reaction strike out of.

 

 

 

 

 

    The evening wore on and the spinner bait bite began to slow down.  May can be one of the best months for topwater so I tied on a black and red buzz bait with two blades stacked one on top of the other.  As we neared the end of the day and the sun set low, I began hooking up on fish with my buzz bait.  Two of my last fish, including my biggest of the day, came in the shoals and no where near wood. When the light gets low, the fish move into the shoals and feed.  I caught a nice spotted bass on the current seam below the shoal.  I then did what is only natural in my excitement after catching a fish, and back lashed my reel pretty bad.  I picked out the mess and reeled up the slack to feel, what I thought was my buzz bait hung up on a rock until it began pulling back. Of course, I really meant to do that so I would catch that fish.  I mean, who hasn't fished a buzz bait on the bottom like a jig? 

 

 

 

   As you can see, I caught fish on a few different lures this day, and was willing to try something new when the technique I was using stopped producing.  You have to be a versatile angler to catch fish, especially in the post spawn.  So don't be afraid to change it up when the bite slows down.  It just might boat you a few  more fish. 

 

First Kayak Trip on the River of 2015

     Thank God, I have finally procured a Yakima JayLow kayak roof rack!  It's been just over two years, since my truck was totaled.  Needless to say, I have had a tough time getting my kayak on the water.  Well the day finally came, with the help of my brother, we installed the rack and I was able to give it a test run today.  The Yakima rack, so far, is very impressive.  My Jackson Cuda 14 fits in the cradle like a glove and the rack can hold two kayaks, if needed.  The instillation instructions could have been a little clearer but it wasn't rocket science.

 



     So I had it loaded up this morning, rods ready, and geared up to go.  I ventured down to one of my favorite spots to fish for Shoal Bass, and other species such as Spotted Bass and Striped Bass.  I called ahead and knew the dam above my spot would stop generating about the time I would get there.  Seeing as the dam is a good bit away from the shoals I was fishing, it took the water a couple hours to drop down to fishable levels.  So I paddled up as far as I could, and beached myself on the point of an island facing upriver.  I began tossing a 3/8 oz football jig with PB&J skirt and pumpkin seed zoom trailer.  I was just killing time until my shoals were reachable, when I had that mushy feeling on my line, directly below the bow of my kayak.  I did one of those, half set the hook, half lift the rod in confusion, when the fish took off.  It shot out the water and the two and a half pound spotted bass came unbuttoned.  This would be my only bite on the jig for the day.  I eventually paddled up a little further, where I could cast my 5" Bull Shad into a really fast chute, that had some decent depth behind it.  As I was slowly bringing it up for another cast, my biggest striped bass of the day, slammed it so hard that I almost fell out of my kayak.  I had to bank my kayak so I wasn't two hundred yards downriver after fighting this fish.  It used the current to it's advantage and it took a good, two minutes, to get it onto the bank.  I didn't have scales but the 7-8lb fish chocked the Bull Shad so deep it was barely visible outside it's small mouth.  This was a hungry striper. 
      I stepped out onto the bank and in the next twenty minutes, I landed 3 similar sized stripers and lost two or three more that pulled off because I couldn't follow them downriver.  This was a nice distraction to the long wait for the water levels to come down. 

 

 

 

     After the striped bass extravaganza, I made my way to the gradually, dropping shoals.  I tried the Bull Shad and the Pig and Jig for a good hour and a half without so much as a bite.  I was standing in front of one of the best pools in this shoal complex, so no fish was not a good sign.  I decided to make a switch, something that would maybe trigger a reaction strike instead of trying to finesse them into eating a jig or tossing the big bait at them.  I tied on a crawfish colored, square bill, crank bait.  First cast into the same, heavily fished pool, and wham.  A nice little shoal bass loaded up on the crank bait as it bounced through the rocks.  Smiling, I released the fish and began fan casting.  As I was about to reel up to make another cast, this massive shoal bass, easily over 5lbs, maybe 6, grabbed the crank bait.  It turned sideways giving me the full view of her glory with only 4 or 5 feet of line out.  I pulled up to start the fight and the crank bait popped out the side of her mouth.  It broke my heart to loose the first big shoal bass of the year but she won't be the last.  I continued on with one more fish that was either a spot or red eye, also on the crank bait.  Seems like the crank bait bouncing off the rocks was key in triggering the strikes today.  Overall, I had a blast and needed to do this SOOO BAD!!

 

 

 



Summer Swim Jigging for Shoal Bass

  Every summer I find myself in a period of fishing when the big bait, bite, is only on for a few hours during those dog days.  So when those big shoal bass hunker down under the shelves of rocks, I find myself going to one lure consistently.  The swim jig with a zoom speed craw on the back end to add bulk and action.  The water I fish is usually gin clear, so I go with more natural colors and the bream imitating colors tend to be my favorite ones.  A 3/8oz swim jig is the perfect size when the water is low and slow, and those big shoal bass are hunkered down.  This tactic will catch big fish, but it will also catch numbers of decent fish as well.  My jig of choice is a homemade swim jig made by my friend Michael Smith.  This little bass wasn't a monster but it chocked the homemade swim jig like it was eating it's last meal.

 

 

   I found the best presentation is the obvious one, the natural one.  To throw the jig upriver and work it back down the shoals or pools towards myself.  This allows for the jig to swim up and over the rocks like a bream or crayfish washing downriver towards the waiting fish's mouth, like any natural prey would.  Shoal bass stay fairly active throughout the summertime so you don't have to crawl the jig back, you can work it back fairly fast.  I don't burn it back like a spinner bait but I also don't crawl it like a normal jig or texas rig.  If you match the weight of the jig correctly with the speed of the current, then it will just glide it's way back to you.  I do let it fall into the cracks and crevices in the shoals, because that is where the big bass will be waiting for it's next meal, but I only let it hit the bottom for a few seconds, at most.  This is usually when the fish will take ahold of the jig, just as it begins to fall between rocks or as you go to lift it over that rock.  A lot of your bites will just feel mushy or all of the sudden get heavy.  This is because of the slack in your line while working a jig this way.

 

 

 

  You have to make sure to use the proper gear for this type of fishing.  You need a strong, abrasive resistant line, that also has low visibility since the summer river water is usually very clear.  So I go with 20lb P Line Flouroclear.  I like this because it's strong, sensitive and has very little stretch so hook sets are easier, especially since the lure is working downriver towards me and moving with the current.  A bass can grab it and take it right back under one of the rocks it was hiding under.  So you need something strong when you set the hook, to get the bass out from under the rocks and keep it from snapping the line on the sharp edges.  You will also need a stout rod, I use a Dobyns 766 Flip for this paired with a Shimano Curado.  This gives me plenty of backbone to slam the hook in a big bass' lip and the reel has the ability to throw the jig a long distance.  Distance is important since your working upriver, which means you'll be throwing your lure uphill.  The micro guides on this rod also help add extra distance on your casts.  Any extra distance is a good thing.  Give this technique a try next time you find yourself out fishing some moving water on the dog days of summer.  It can produce some excellent catches.

 

 



Dealing With Early Sprig Cold Fronts and Tough Fishing

  We all know that when the warm weather comes, the big female bass have been fattened, are full of eggs and ready to move up and drop their spawn at any steady sign of warm weather.  Of course if you have bass fished, you know inevitably that these ideal stretches of warm weather seem to break out for us early only to be squashed by several nights of weather in the 20's-30's.  So here are my thoughts on what happened and what to do when these early spring cold fronts move in on you and how to still make those big females bite. 

  Everyone who has bass fever has experienced this, or just about everyone.  You have a springtime bass trip planned for Lake Seminole in FL or Lake Guntersville in AL for the magic month in the spring when those giant females, swollen with eggs, are moving up behind the buck bass, staging on secondary points and drop offs, feeding up and getting ready for the spawn. Then you wake up the next morning to crisp, cold air temps in the 30's when it had stayed in the 50's and higher for the week or two before.  We all know what this means, as most fisherman would say, "These fish have lockjaw today."  Well those bass can be caught and until the water temperatures have time to adjust and cool off, you can catch them in those early spring patterns such as throwing crankbaits or lipless crankbaits in 8-12ft near spawning bays or working a crawfish pattern jigs around wood in those same depths near shallow spawning grounds.  But after that first day, when the barometric pressure rises, and the blue bird sky's show up.  That's when you have to work harder to put these fish in the boat. 

                              Early spring time lunker caught in a brush pile in 12Ft on a Senko

  Initially, after the cold front, the bass will be found in the backs of the creeks and bays near channel drops and wood piles where they can remain until the weather stabilizes.  You can catch those on the above mentioned crankbaits and jigs worked slowly through those brush piles and channel drops.  As the cold front hovers or moves over the bass can be found further towards the main lake and hunkering down tight to the wood or rock cover.  If you just take the time to use your sonar, find some places outside your favorite spawning areas, you can find those creek channels, bends and drop offs that will hold these big lunker females that break your heart on an early cold spring day. Catching these fish will be tougher than the ones gorging themselves right before they move up because they were in that stage and now have had to adjust to the cold.  They will bite but it usually takes some kind of reaction bite to make bass eat in this situation.  A crankbait is perfect for this because it can be worked over rock and through wood, banging into the limbs and cause those big females to react to it by getting mad and slapping the lure.  Sometimes it may take fifteen to twenty casts to the same brush pile to catch one, but often when one bites it can fire up the remaining school and make those fish eat also.  So be quick to get your lure in the water and mark your waypoint, if possible, when you catch a big bass. 

   It's tough, but we can all put some big bass in the kayak or boat if we just put a little time into researching what and where you will be fishing so these springtime cold fronts won't shut you down. This big early spring spot was caught on a suspending super rogue by Smithwick, inside a slow eddy where the cold weather had forced the bass out of it's usual warm water spot.  It is a testimony to what you can catch if you get out and still try when that cold weather rolls over you warm spring week.

 

  

Sally the Spotzilla, Caught Twice Two Years Apart

So two years ago, my wife, Rachael Stutts, was fortunate enough to hook and land her personal best spotted bass at the time that was extremely full of eggs and weighed in at four pounds three ounces.  The bass was a beast of a spotted bass and especially for the small river it was caught from.  Well it was caught in one of the pools formed in a shoal complex just before the river dumps into a lake.  She was throwing a rapala J11 on a 6ft spinning rod and a fairly small spinning reel.  Rachael played the big girl like a pro as she rolled and turned on the top of the water.  I finally was able to lip it and after pics and weight, she was released into the same pool she was caught from, an area about the size of an olympic swimming pool.

Well fast forward to this year and late April conditions, high muddy water with an approaching storm front.  I knew it would be a good day for fishing so I tied on my 5" slow sink Bull Shad and headed to the same river.  Which has given up a 4lb+ spotted bass last spring and two so far this spring.  This river is so small I hop rocks to get to the other side and you can cast across it in almost every spot on the shoal complex and river.  So I had caught a few decent bass on the bull shad as the skies darkened but nothing huge.  I then had one about 3-4lbs come up and just slap at my swim bait but didn't eat it.  That gave me the drive to fish this hole a little longer before moving on.  I crossed the rocks to get to the one area in this pool I hadn't cast to, and slung my bull shad next to a tree with fast current going by.  I let it sit for a second to sink, then gave my rod tip a good pop which turns the lure side to side like a spook but underwater, when WHAM, there she was again and hungry.  Sally the Spotzilla, as we now named her, began to run and pull then came to the surface and with her big old head I knew it was a good fish.  Had no clue it was Sally.  The fish was downriver from me, in heavy current, with shallow rocks between me and her.  The worst case scenario.  So I just leaned on her, and slowly pulled her over and around the rocks until I got her in an eddy below my feet.  The fish had the lure perfectly horizontal in her mouth, the tail off of one side and the head on the other, treble hooks all in her face.

 So I grabbed the bass behind the head and let out a victory yell.  The fish had spawned out already, or else she would have gone five pounds.  At the time the thought did cross my mind that it may be Rachael's fish I caught but wasn't sure and released her.  On a side note, I hooked her ten feet to the left of where Rachael caught her fish two years ago this spring.  In the pictures you can plainly see a black birth mark on the left side of her head on the gill plate.  The fish had some sort of infection where it lays it's eggs so hopefully it'll survive that so we can catch her again next year.  Catch and Release really works people!!

Early Summer Pond Fishing

Sometimes when the spawn is over, the best place to be is on a small body of water such as a pond to catch numbers and if the ponds properly managed, some quality sized bass as well.  I have recently been without a way to get our kayaks to the river, so we've done our share of wade and pond fishing.  I tell you nothing beats a good farm pond bite and when they get to feeding, sometimes you can catch fish on any lure you want to throw.  My personal favorites for early summer pond fishing are topwaters such as pop r's, spooks, and prop baits in low light conditions and if the sun is up I go to a soft plastic or spinnerbait fished just below the surface.   A zoom trick worm is ideal for catching big pond bass in the summer time.  Even some crickets and a bobber can yield some great results.

Just recently here in May, I was able to fish a small body of water loaded with 1-3lb bass and a lot of small to okay sized bream.  The bream were all over the banks and the occasional ball of bass fry was left roaming the pond.  Just before dark I took to the pond with a pop r on the end of my line and within minutes was battling a nice largemouth that just absolutely inhaled the lure.  All the fish inhaled the pop r with great ease so setting the hook and landing these bass wasn't difficult at all.  I moved on and after fishing around the pond I ended up with four nice bass in twenty minutes.  The next morning I awoke and stepped out with the pop r again, caught one right behind my Dad as he was bream fishing off the dock.  He was so mad he wouldn't turn around and even look.  LOL.  So if your stuck with no float partner or rivers are way to high, give pond fishing a try, it can pleasantly surprise you.

When Your Stuck to the Bank

       About the middle of October, our lives changed drastically when I was hit head on by a small compact car and it totaled out my Nissan Xterra which we had used for carrying our Kayaks to fish for the past four years.  As most of you know, it's not  only a lifestyle for us, it's in our blood now; we are addicted.  So without a truck, what is a fella to do?  Hit up some smaller rivers and travel the banks, rocks, and even wade the shallow waters for some surprisingly large bass in such small waters.

      We fish a small unnamed river that flows into a lake, that at places, is barely as wide as a two lane road.  It's about waist deep on average and there are a few holes and pockets inside the shoals we wade that are a little deeper.  But we find most of the year, the big spots, shoal bass, and occasional largemouth are in the shallowest, fastest water we can find inside those shoals.  

    The gear I recommend for small flows like this would be one versatile rod, that had a medium action with some give to the tip and at least a length of 6.5-7ft.  That sounds long for wade fishing, but when a 4lb spotted bass grabs your swim bait on the end of a 50 yard cast, you need a long rod to drive the hook home.  I use a Dobyns 765 CB GLASS for this type of fishing.  It lets me throw anything from jerk baits, which are my all time favorite shallow water lure, small swim baits, spinnerbaits, top waters and more.  

      Now as for lures, the one's mentioned above are my main aressenal and I almost never slow down to plastics because in small flows, there are just less baitfish for the bass and usually less pressure so that makes for some extra aggressive, big spotted bass and shoal bass.  I caught a shoal bass from the one lane wide, creek/river you see above that weighed 4lbs 1oz and was only 18.5" long.  She was fat and pregnant, and wanted my Suspending Rogue like it was crack for an addict.  

4lb 1oz Shoal Bass

    I usually use those oh so stylish, "fanny packs" that have double water bottles on them.  You can get them at Walmart for really cheap and it comes with the two 24oz water bottles that fit on your sides like two six shooters.  This works great for a drink in one and an extra spool of line in the other.  Then you can fit your assortment of jerk baits, spinnerbaits and occasional soft plastics (just in case ;) etc.  I find the suspending jerk bait to be the deadliest of all the tactics I have tried for these small water bass but have caught some pigs using my 5" Bullshad also.  Sometimes they just swipe at it though, because it's a little large to represent the forage in this river but at least that shows me where they are and I can come back and get them to eat that jerk bait when it suspends in their face.   

     So try some small water wading when you find yourself stuck without a vehicle, you might just be surprised at the size of bass that can live in 2-3ft of water annually.  These fish are trapped in this area and live here year round.  So they are accustomed to the fast water and feeding even in cooler temperatures.  Don't be afraid to give that small flow a shot that's down the road from your house.  You may just catch a few of these weirdo's, like this spot and shoal bass hybrid.

By the Grace of God, My Seat Belt, and Air Bags, I am Alive!

I was on my way home Wednesday evening around 5:00, heading south on Hwy 42 towards Jackson when a lady decided to pull out in front of my truck right as I was passing.  As you guys know, the laws of physics don't allow for two objects to occupy the same space at the same time, well to say the least we collided with such force that all I remember is seeing her black car, then the air bag exploded and I slammed on brakes.  I ended up going straight off to the left side of the highway and I guess she spun around and ended up in the middle of the road.  It happened so fast I never even had a chance to hit my brakes before hitting her so I was full on going 55-60mph when I hit her.  The speed limit is 55 on that stretch.  I couldn't get the driver door opened, so I rolled out the passenger side and got away from the truck in case of fire or anything like that.  All I knew was my face hurt, I was dizzy as heck, and the cabin of my truck was full of the smoke from the air bag going off.  I thank God, I came out of the wreck with only sore muscles and a sore neck. One little tiny nick on my right knee and a little split on my nose, That was it.  I swear all my vehicles will be a Nissan from this day forward!

Well, the lady admitted to the cops that it was all her fault. She was okay also, except she had a banged up wrist.  Red nose like me but she was more worried I was going to sue her than anything I think. But it was her fault, So hopefully there won't be any problems from here on out getting a new vehicle.  I am just glad I can see another sun rise and that both parties involved were okay. We both walked away from what could have easily killed both of us.  Thank GOD.  That's for sure!

My First True Kayak Sleigh Ride

My buddy Johnithan, my wife Rachael and I all went down to a spot on a river where there are several sets of shoals on your way upriver to a spillway.  I was in my new Jackson Cuda and Rachael was in her Coosa.  Well, we hadn't checked with the dam operater of the lake above where we were and just so happened that right when we get to the spillway, about a mile padle up, there are no exposed rocks below it.  This confused me only for a split second because it was supposed to have exposed rocks with pools to fish for our beloved shoal bass but there was only one limb sticking out of the water below this spillway.  I said to Johnithan and Rachael, "Guys, I think they just released on us!!!!"  Not knowing it at the time, but found out afterwards they rose the river 8ft while we were out there. 

So I see a couple of tunnel hull boats pull up that somehow made it up those initial shoals with a ton of water coming over them.  Then something clicked in my head........STRIPED BASS go nuts when water is released and these guys were there just for this particular event.  So I paddle up to the fastest, biggest shute on the spillway that had maybe 4-7ft swells at the bass of the first major shoal after the spillway.  I had a prototype 8" bullshad that I am testing and it is a faster sinking bait than the normal slow sink, don't ask to buy them from Bull Shad.com though, he isn't offering lures in heavy sink right now.  Well, to shorten this story some I will get back to it.  I heaved the 8" bait up into the fastest water out there and all I could do was reel just barely fast enough to keep up with the lure, I wasn't actually swimming it back.  First cast and WHAM!!!!  My rod almost is ripped out of my hands and then what looked to be a 30lb striper came to the top and instantly came off. Meanwhile the fellas in the boats hadn't hooked anything yet, and who says you can't catch big striper on artificial baits?

So next cast to the exact same spot and this time when I set the hook I know it's into something special.  The fish immediately tore off down river turning my yak and peeling line.  Funny side not, my wife actually asked did I need the net and it's one of those smallest you can get bass nets...so I just crack up and say, "You won't fit any part of this fish in that net, try and hook you one!!"  Then I had to get serious because I was fighting a fish so big that it just easily peeled 25lb Trik Fish Camo mono off a Shimano Corsair even when I tightened down on the drag.  At one point, maybe five minutes into the fight, the fish was at least 125yrds away from my kayak.  At this point I still haven't even seen the fish and I have floated down out of the crazy super fast water down to just crazy fast water.  There was one major tree laying out in the middle of the river that even with the high water you could still see one limb.  The bass made a run for that and this is when I finally just pinned the spool with my thumb and began to turn the fish.  It worked as I had made the fish come to the surface and turn directions, so it began running back the other way across the river.  I felt a little better at this point because I could fight the fish in an open deeper area. 

After, what I would say was a solid 5-10 minutes, the fish begins to tire and makes two more short 20-30 yard runs.  I then get it right beside my kayak and notice that only one prong of the back treble hook is barely still stuck in the outside of the gill plate.  One small head shake, one more run, or maybe a slight breeze and this fish would have been gone.  Big dilemma at point since my Bogo Grips where still back home on my Coosa and I had to somehow lip this fish without pulling that last prong  out.  I couldn't get it's head close enough with my left hand using the pole while I reached out with my right hand so I finally grabbed the line, pulled the fish a little closer and shoved my thumb into this River Monster's mouth.  AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!  YEEEEEAAAHHH BBBBOOOYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" ----came out of my mouth as I stood up trying to figure out what to do with this beast since I still had no fish grips or even a stringer at this point.  Luckily though Rachael was able to pull up just in time for me to hook the fish to her grips so we could get it to land and take a few pics and try to get a length....lol  30" board didn't help with this fish, needed a bigger one.  The fish would have easily gone 15-17" past the end of the 30" board.  The adrenaline rush from that sleigh ride was the hardest I think my adrenaline has ever flowed and was a high like no other.

This is when I first lipped the beast and was trying to figure out what I was going to do.

I never got a true weight on the fish but my guess was between 35-40lbs as I could barely hold it with one hand, heck I could barely hold it with two.  Was quite and experience and the ride back down those initial shoals was pretty whicked....fun that is!

Post Spawn Top Water Tactics for Big Spots

There is a time after the bass lay their eggs in early May when the fishing can be very funny and confusing. Fish won't be active enough to hit a swim bait yet but will crush a properly worked top water bait. So the question is what type of top water to use. I believe the fish aren't quite ready for pop r type baits or buzz baits, but something like lucky craft Sammy or a Zara spook can be deadly. I got onto this pattern when I was fishing and I saw a bass after a small 2 ft snake. The bass must have tried six times before it finally engulfed the snake and took it under. Well a spook or Sammy looks just like a snake when walked across the water. So I tied on a lucky craft Sammy And began working it, even though the sun was bright. There was a slight chop on the water and I believe this always makes a top water bite better. It was the first week of May, the fish are all off their beds but just not into that summer feeding pattern yet. I began walking that sammy out around wood in some slacker water when it was crushed by a huge spotted bass. The fish was fat, right at four pounds even and the tail was tore up. She had layed her eggs, but just recently.

I have found the best retrieve is to walk the lure back and forth a few times after it lands then pause it. The strike usually comes on the pause. This is how I will work the bait back until it's almost to the kayak and I have had strikes within feet of the boat. Sometimes it takes giving the bait more action to work the fish into hitting the bait. The cloud cover you have can always help a top water. This pattern also works on bright blue bird days as long as there is a slight breeze or chop on the water. Current also helps the bite but isn't neccesary. So next time your out on a funny post spawn bite and you can't get the fish to feed, try tossing a top water bait at them and you might be surprised.

A 2011 Summer in Review

So this summer fishing swimbaits has been unbelievable and I would easily consider it the best three months of catching big bass in my life where I easily caught more big fish in the 4-8.5lb class range in those three months than I have in the past five years combined.  Here  are just some of those memorable fish I caught this year, enjoy.

My Personal Best Shoal Bass at 7lb 8oz caught on 5" Tru Tungsten

 

My First Bass on the Bullshad, 5" slow sink model,  a 4lb largemouth bass

 

5lb Shoal Bass caught on the 5" Slow Sink Bullshad 

8.5lb Largemouth caught on the 5" Slow Sink Bullshad

6lb 2oz Shoal Bass caught on the 5" Slow Sink Bullshad

3lb 15oz Spotted Bass caught on the 5" slow sink Bullshad(fish 1 of 4 caught same day)

6lb 4oz shoal bass caught on the 5" Slow Sink Bullshad(fish 2 of 4 caught same day)

5lb 4oz shoal bass on the 5" slow sink Bullshad(fish 3 of 4caught same day)

4lb 11oz shoal bass caught on the 5" slow sink Bullshad(fish 4 of 4 caught same day)

4lb 9oz Shoal Bass caught on the 5" slow sink Bullshad

4lb 6oz Shoal Bass on the 5" Slow Sink Bullshad

4lb 10oz shoal bass caught on the 6" slow sink Bullshad

4lb 8oz Largemouth on the 6" Bullshad

4lb 15oz Shoal Bass on the 6" Bullshad

4lb 8oz Shoal Bass on the 6" Bullshad

4lb  2oz Shoal Bass caught on 6" Bullshad(fish 3of 3 on same day)

4lb 12 oz Shoal Bass caught on the 5" Floating Bullshad

4lb 2oz Spotted Bass caught on the 8" Slow Sink Bullshad Generation 2 Prototype

 

4lb 10oz Shoal Bass caught on the 8" Slow Sink Bullshad Generation 2 Prototype

Even the little guys like the 8" Bullshad