Monthly Archives October 2019

Some days you just have to work at it and this trip was one of those. My guest was Paul Fleming, retired Fire Chief from the city of Fredericton. The fish seemed to be scattered when I expected them to be stacked up. We covered a lot of water on this one and fished in a pretty bad chop most of the afternoon. Paul was a very gracious guest and stuck with it all day. The upside is he got his first drop shot bass, his first in line spinner bass and his first jerk bait bass. He really liked my Cumara Drop Shot rod with the CI4 reel. All of his jerk bait fish came on a Jackall Squad Minnow fished on a 7′ Exage rod, 2500 Stradic FK and 20 lb Power Pro.
The big surprise for me was that the bait fish were gone...

Backwater Casting
Published by Rick Greene · September 20 at 10:13 AM ·
The mornings are getting to be a bit on the chilly side as we chase the fall Smallmouth bite. I got out on the lake with Andrew Oliver who partnered with Mike Brennan to take the NBSFA Classic Championship in Woodstock.
We started off on an old creek channel that was about 12 feet deep with the flat on the sides at 6 feet. We were able to see the fish on the Lowrance Live but we could not get them to bite. We moved up onto the flat and fished across it through scattered grass and rock and picked up a few fish but the majority were short strikes and we had a lot come off...