After a couple of tough largemouth trips lately, decided to endure the high winds today and switch over to some smallmouth. One of the best days yet, several between 17-20 inches. 68 water temps…
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Looks like the river to me.
Well it wasn’t Prior Lake this time..! 
Now I know where you got the whitties! Nice catch Fry.
What did the smallies want to eat ?
What did the smallies want to eat ?
Tubes around banks, boulders and laydowns. A bit snaggy at times, so I use an 1/8 oz center-weighted Owner Phantom hook on 3.5 inch Tubes. Really prefer that lazy, swimming action a center-weighted rig does over a traditional Texas-rig weight which tends to just nose dive.
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I will have to try this phantom hook. I usually use a gamakatsu skip gap hook pegged with a bullet sinker around snaggy cover but with the weight inside the tube on this thing I could avoid the bullet weight completely.
Skip Gap is a great hook, most hook gimmicks designed to hold plastic end up ripping the plastic, not SG, and of course they are crazy sharp-that said I’ll have to look at the phantom.
Make sure you watch the Justin Lucas short video on how to rig the Phantom hook… kind of like a stupid tube, but important to get on straight.
Nice Frydog, That’s where I found them on the St Croix a couple weeks ago when I went out. Big riprap.
Nice Frydog, That’s where I found them on the St Croix a couple weeks ago when I went out. Big riprap.
I agree, most everyone I see keys in on wood and there are a few there. But more around any kind of rock, cement piling, etc where the crayfish (and tubes 
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