Opener bass tactics

mahtofire14 wrote:

Nice grimruis! That’s a good day. I have to chose very carefully when I can go up there with a 17 ft bass boat. Hoping to find some time to sneak up there before the good spring bite shuts down. Were you getting them on shallow rock bars?

I have to be careful when I go there too and pick the right day with only an 18 foot boat. I really have no interest in battling 3 footers.

I caught them in about 6 feet of water on broken rock/sand. I saw another boat tossing orange jerk baits and they caught a couple small ones so I started using a neon colored one too and within 3 casts hooked into one. I generally use more natural colors. It was 62.5 degrees and I saw some beds but didn’t see any fish on them. Here’s some photos. They were all prespawn females.

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I’ve found chartreuse and orange are really solid for smallies. They seem to like the brighter colors. I know chartreuse really makes them made for some reason.

mahtofire14 wrote:

I’ve found chartreuse and orange are really solid for smallies. They seem to like the brighter colors. I know chartreuse really makes them made for some reason.

I actually don’t even own an orange jerk bait because I scoured my tackle for one when I saw them using it. The closest I had was neon yellow. I think it may be called clown pattern.

Pink x raps are dynamite.