08-14-2018, 04:49 PM
Went to Jordanelle for my first time ever yesterday.
I was solo and searching for smallies.
The first spot I stopped at I started catching perch on a texas rigged craw with a 1/0 hook... So I switched gears to perch and started throwing a white crappie jig at them for some taco meat. Caught a bunch of small perch and a few keepers. When reeling in a smaller perch I had a large fish eat the perch on my line. Thought it was a muskie at first, but it kept coming back showing me that it was a big ol' smallie.
Switched gears again and started throwing everything I had with perch colors. I did manage a few decent smallmouth, nothing over 2.5-3#, but I never did get a hook into that big one.
I had the best luck with a perch colored lipless crank for catching the bass. If you want quantity this is the way to go, couldn't keep the dinks off of that. I did manage a couple nicer ones using it too.
Heading back up after work today and hope to hook up to a few big ones.
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I was solo and searching for smallies.
The first spot I stopped at I started catching perch on a texas rigged craw with a 1/0 hook... So I switched gears to perch and started throwing a white crappie jig at them for some taco meat. Caught a bunch of small perch and a few keepers. When reeling in a smaller perch I had a large fish eat the perch on my line. Thought it was a muskie at first, but it kept coming back showing me that it was a big ol' smallie.
Switched gears again and started throwing everything I had with perch colors. I did manage a few decent smallmouth, nothing over 2.5-3#, but I never did get a hook into that big one.
I had the best luck with a perch colored lipless crank for catching the bass. If you want quantity this is the way to go, couldn't keep the dinks off of that. I did manage a couple nicer ones using it too.
Heading back up after work today and hope to hook up to a few big ones.
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