It's Starting To Pay Off

[fishballer06]

My goal this season has been to get better with my slower presentations. I've always fished moving baits almost exclusively. So this year I've been fishing wacky rigs, Neko rigs, texas rigs, jigs, etc. more and more in order to force myself to get better at these techniques. I've been visiting small local ponds to practice these techniques so that I can transfer that into my trips out on the boat. It's finally starting to pay off and my confidence is growing every trip with these techniques. 

 

My buddy and I hit the water at 5 AM yesterday, July 4th. I wasn't expecting much with it being the final day of a holiday weekend on a lake that is over pressured as it is. We started our morning off throwing topwaters and large swimbaits because this lake is known for above average sized fish. My partner caught his first ever frog fish, a 3-7 to start the day off. I quickly followed up with a 3-4 on my trusty old black Cavitron buzzbait. Once the fog burned off, the fish started boiling at the surface everywhere in the large weed flat we were on. I picked up a wacky rigged Senko and started going to work on them. As the sun got up, we went to deeper water. I caught a few fish flipping a pegged D-Bomb up under some overhanging trees on a steep bank. We then moved to an old barn foundation that is left on this lake that always produces fish. Another boat was on this spot when we got there, so we fished down the bank some and waited our turn. While waiting our turn, 3 different kayak fishermen paddled up on this spot and fished it as well. None of them caught anything. Once it was our turn to get on this spot, I managed to pull a nice 2.5 pounder out on a wacky rigged Senko. This was a big confidence booster to me to go to a spot that had already been worked over by a few other fishermen and pull out a fish using one of my weaker techniques. 

 

By the end of the day, I caught around a dozen fish all in the 14-19" range, with only one fish being on a moving bait. Our best 5 was probably in the 12-13lb. range. 

 

My partner's 3-7 frog fish.

 

My 3-4 Cavitron fish. 

[Jar11591]

It's amazing how confidence can make a lure produce. 

[NHBull]

Great and thanks for sharing.....once you get used to slowing down, good thing  happen.

I also think it helps the rest of your game

 

[lonnie g]

nice reminder for the rest of us, thanks

[Will Wetline]

Well done, gentlemen.

[A-Jay]

Sweet Summer Time Bass ~

Congrats

A-Jay