Pacemaker Fishing Forum

With 3 days is 60° out, new. I had to hit the river for some smallmouth action. Ended up going yesterday afternoon because of the wind forecast for today and tomorrow. A friend from work met me at at 12:30 for a shorter float. However, the fishing was it's tougher than I thought it was going to be even with the water. A great color and river level at 3 ft on the gauge.

We hit two know winter areas with variety of lures between the two of us without getting any hits at all. Whether it was dragging the bottom or even throwing a jerk bait, just couldn't get anything to bite. Then with about a mile left upstream of the last winter hole, both of us managed to avoid the skunk. A friend yelled out. He had one and said it was a good one and turned out to be one that went right at 19 in. He caught it on a net rig I believe. About 5 minutes later. I landed one about 15 in on a stand-up jig head and street meadow photos started using this winter. We tried that last winter area and to get anything else.

But we avoided the skunk, wasn't working, and enjoyed a really nice afternoon on the water. Here's his 19.