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Working with him on fall patterns. Pete Gluszek How to deal with a cold front-fish a jig on the rocks. Pete Gluszek Delaware river fish today.
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Pete Gluszek Hudson River smallies were biting today. Pete Gluszek Some Delaware River pics. Pete Gluszek Spent the better part of a weekend with an on-water training trip on the Connecticut River. Pete Gluszek Vin and Al caught these guys just before a massive lightning storm chased us off the water. Pete Gluszek These are some of the fish that mangled my chatterbait.
Pete Gluszek Nice post-spawn bass. Pete Gluszek Caught and released 44 largemouth on the Delaware river on Saturday.
Pete Gluszek 4 Nice bass. Pete Gluszek They are bitin'.
Round valley tungsten in the front of a creature. Pete Gluszek Great day on the bay. Not a cloud in the sky today.
Pete Gluszek Nice way to start a Wednesday. A member of the Arkansas Outdoor Hall of Fame, Nixon, also is one of the most-respected anglers in tournament bass fishing history. Nixon enjoys fishing Pickwick Lake where the borders of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama meet for smallmouths and largemouths in the summer. Larry Nixon says with a smile on his face.
During the summertime, smallmouths tend to hold out in the middle of a lake on no visible cover. If you fish a big reservoir like Pickwick Lake on the Tennessee River, the wide expanse of water that goes unbroken in all directions looks like a desert. Nixon believes that during the summer months to catch big smallmouth, you must fish offshore on underwater structure.
An ideal bottom break is one that is really close to a spawning area. The key is to concentrate on deepwater structure and fish with live bait, either slowly trolling or driftingaround humps and breaklines, usually right where the bottom begins to flatten out. Anglers who troll many lines usually use large boards that are tethered to the boat, and they clip their lines to the tether line. Anglers in small boats can easily fish up to three lines per side with small in-line planers. The key is to set the far-running lines first and position those rods closest to the bow; set near-running lines last and toward the stern.
Allow more line out before you attach the outside boards, so the baits trail farther behind the boat.
That will let you reel in fish on an outside line without getting tangled. GO NATIVE "Matching the hatch" is a familiar phrase among trout anglers, and a well-kept secret among the walleye pros is using minnows that are native to the lake or river they're fishing. Most bait shops carry only commercially raised bait or minnows netted from large bodies of water, often a great distance away.
Some pros pick through a bait shop's offerings to find local creek chubs, suckers or mud minnows, If you're not sure if you're using the right bait, consider getting some minnow traps or try seining the creeks that run into your lake or stream. As the old saying goes, give the customer what he wants. Both methods work well in rivers, too, though some anglers jig as they would any other time. Attach a light source to in-line boards to detect strikes. To make them easier to grip, carry a rag or rub them against your pant leg to remove some of the slime.
When hooking them, insert the point of the hook into their suction cup—this will let them swim freely instead of balling up on the hook.
Keep the leeches in some sort of container in the livewell to acclimate them to the lake temperature before you bait up. A quieter retrieve is often more productive for walleyes, which tend to trail baits rather than simply lunging and striking. Neutrally buoyant baits are especially suited to walleyes, as they sit still or rise ever so slowly when you stop working the bait.
Walleyes take these lures during a pause in the action, so stop your retrieve often.
Use small twister-tail grubs or short plastic worms. Attach a 2- to 3-foot length of monofilament to the back hook of the crankbaits, tie on a hook and attach the grub.
Make sure the hook is exposed, and if you're using a worm, run the hook through at least three quarters of the soft-plastic; that way you won't miss short-striking fish. Don't add any weight to the leader or you'll interfere with the crankbait's action. And use opposite colors when trailing crankbaits—dark grubs with light-colored plugs and vice versa.