Smelt Pond Fishing Spot

Soft Baits Check Prices

• Shakey Head
• Shakey Head
  The 2 bass I caught that counted toward our limit were:
  1lb 9oz, and 1lb 4oz
  8 other Bass between 13in and 10in

Dry Fly Check Prices

Other Check Prices

• Green Pumpkin Spanky worm
  (Lunker City)
• 6" slug-o's (perch and Salt & Pepper. Worked and worked over the rocks and weed beds
• Rainbow Power Bait

Crankbait Check Prices

• 1" Rapala minnow, silver/white, drifting. I also use GY Kreature baits over the weeds and in the holes between them.
• Today, 10/31/08, used a 1" sinking Rapala, white and silver while drifting. I usually use a Kreature bait, green with black specks or Brown with purple specks.
• 1-Minus crankbait in a Bluegill pattern
• Rapala Perch
• My 2 limit Fish were 1lb 5oz, and 1lb 4oz
  
  Vinny had a 2lb 4oz, 1lb 4oz, and 1lb 3oz
• Relentless all day!!!!!
• Strike King KVD 1.5 Sexy Shad

Stick Bait Check Prices

• Lucky Craft Pointer 100 Golden Shiner pattern.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• We each culled one Bass - My was a 12"3/4lb, Vinny's was 1lb

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• I drop in a spinner or crank bait. Make sure it is loud and early in the am. I work it from the shore and let it sink at the drop off or run it deep along the drop
• Black Spinner bait with bronze blades.
• Chatreuse/White double Colorado spinnerbait
• med speed retrieve
• Strike king bleeding spinner bait... Casting to an over hanging tree