This 78 degree warm front before the rain tomorrow brought the fish shallow. Saw about a dozen 2lb+ LMBs just hunting along the drop off at this lake with great water clarity, about 8-10ft deep.
Before I caught this gal, I had a jerkbait tied on to fish along the drop off as there were bass just swimming along it all around the bank. Sight fished and watched a LMB chase my jerkbait in and eat it, super sick watch. After that, didn’t get anymore bites so I decided to switch to a ned rig with a strike king ragetail. Right as I was tying it, I looked up and to my right and saw a small bass swimming by and decided to speed up my knot so I could catch it.
As I finished up tying on the ned rig, I looked back up and straight out then realized there was an absolute MONSTER at my feet. Talk about perfect timing? I flipped it right infront of its face, let it hit the bottom, and as it hit the bottom the bass went straight for it, inspecting it. I lightly jigged my rod to flare the pinchers of the craw to entice a bite. Watched it gulp it down then I set the hook to the moon, thing was pulling some drag. Absolutely sick catch from today.
Strikeking Ragetail with a ZMan Ned Rig in SE WI, 78 degrees, 1:20P
*Scale is stuck in KG, dunno how to change it
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