What an absolutely insane weekend of chasing bass
on Lake Mohave! I was not a huge fan of dragging a lake bottom for hours
on end until this weekend and now I'm a believer! Football jigs, drop
shots and Texas rigs caught so many big smallmouths this weekend I was in
shock! Let's get down to the nitty gritty of what the weekend was about
and what it turned into.
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| Football Jigs |
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| Drop Shot Rig |
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| Texas Rig |
Since starting out as a Mystery
Tacklebox member I was trying to find a creative way to actually start using
the baits they sent me every month. What I would do is open up the box as
soon as it came in, call every bait in it "cool" or "neat,"
put the hard bait in my tackle box, place the soft baits in a designated
Mystery Tacklebox ziploc, then forget em. Not what the program is all
about.
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| Mystery Tackle Box They Are Awesome! |
Then one day I saw Gene Jensen
from bassresource.com on the youtubes talking about the #mtbslam.
(mystery tacklebox slam). The slam is catching a fish on each piece of
equipment or bait in the box. What a cool idea, right?! Watching
him showed me what a challenge this could be. So when I got this months
box I was so excited, but then I opened up box to see a Koppers Livetarget
Frog. I fish Lake Mohave which is deep, gin clear and chalk full of smallmouth.
The rest of this months box was perfect! A drop shot worm from BioSpawn
Baits called the plasma tail and to compliment this great little worm MTB sent
a VMC drop shot hook (1/0) and a 1/4oz quick drop drop shot weights.
Other baits included the Skinny Bear Elite Football Jig in 3/4oz and a
pack of Bruiser Baits Evil Twin, which is a twin tail grub which is an
excellent trailer. I slathered all the plastics I received in the
Baitmate Live Gamefish attractant MTB sent with package and went fishing!
My second cast of Friday
evening was with the drop shot rig I set up from the package and after a few
jiggles of the rod tip a decent smallmouth grabbed the worm and I was on!
After that I dedicated the
night to catching fish on the football jig. Two smallmouths later I
decided that the football jig does indeed work and I'd better figure out how to
catch a fish on the evil twin. So I Texas rigged it and slow dragged it
just like the football jig. I hooked one small bronzeback and decided to
go back to the drop shot. This is when I hooked the big bass of the
weekend! A toad of a largemouth! After a solid fight on my medium
light spinning gear we put a 5 pound bass in the boat!
Day two I went back to my
favorite baits, Missile Baits fuse 4.4 in green beret and watermelon red fleck.
I rig it on a drop shot with a VMC spinshot Ike approved wide gap hook
2/0. I feel I have a better hook up percentage then if I nose hooked the
bait and it keeps the bait pointed straight out better. This one small
decision in my drop shotting helped me kill em! This is the part of the
blog where I give a big shout to John Crews and Missile Baits! I caught
more bass on the fuse 4.4 and the twin turbo as a jig trailer on Saturday (day
2) then any other bait I've fished all year. Maybe it's just a confidence
thing but these baits have the perfect action! The best part is the
smallmouth on my lake absolutely rip them to shreds! You'll see on the
video the caliber of bronze backs landed on Saturday and how well these baits
work. Go to missilebaits.com and see them for yourself.
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| Missile Baits Are My Favorite! |
Now just like I said in my last post an angler
needs to find deep drops, ledges and the brush piles on Lake Mohave. Typical
clear water bass stuff. This is where we talk about dragging the bottom
of these structures with football jigs and drop shots. I'm sure I could
start using tubes to successfully to do the same thing I was doing with the
football jigs but why not use baits I have confidence in?
The other thing I've found
super interesting on Lake Mohave is the bass are usually near the bluegill.
Any of the brush on the lake that hangs over the water that you can
visibly see bluegill in usually means there is bass close in deeper water as
long as it's a steep drop.
Tight Lines!
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| ROGUE GOING FISHING! |
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