Listening to the fish

[Sphynx]

Well, yesterday was nearly a stinker of a day, they've been destroying any and all baitfish imitations, and I definitely went to sleep on it, spent a couple hours down on the river and snagged a single pound and a bit fish off a handful of baits, was about to give up when it struck me that I had not tried anything to imitate a crawfish yet. Tied on a tube and it was on like donkey Kong from the first cast, probably landed 8 fish in 15 minutes, but I definitely wasn't listening to the fish yesterday, I should have been on that tube an hour before I was, next time you start getting frustrated at not getting bit, try listening to the fish, it sure saved my day.

[J Francho]

Sometimes you gotta throw the change-up.

[Sphynx]

2 minutes ago, J Francho said:

Sometimes you gotta throw the change-up.

This time I caught them swinging too ?

[TnRiver46]

Smallmouth fishing without tubes? I would never……

[Sphynx]

7 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Smallmouth fishing without tubes? I would never……

I got a bunch, just haven't had any reason to put down the power fishing lures and go to one in several weeks 

[J Francho]

I'd have made the same mistake. Smallies are usually cued in on bait fish up here. 

[Jigfishn10]

It’s amazing isn’t it, they just want what they want. Good thinking @Sphynx.

[TnRiver46]

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen them busting shad on the surface and I threw a tube in there and hooked up immediately. They’ll always eat a tube, in fact I always out fish live crawdads with a tube (drum won’t lay off live craw)