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Rbull

Silver Ambassador

7/21/23

Species
Smallmouth Bass
Season
Summer
Technique
Lipless Crankbaits
Structure
Boulders
Water Temperature
78°

Fished a twelve foot offshore break to catch the Smallmouth on a steady retrieve

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Greg Thomas

Gold Ambassador

5/22/23

Species
Smallmouth Bass
Season
Spring (Spawn)
Technique
Soft Swimbaits (Sm/Md)
Structure
Boulders
Forage
Alewife
Water Temperature
46°

This was my first time fishing Ottawa. Blue bird skies 2 days after a massive cold front. The bite was tough. I saw cruisers in the shallows and was marking fish at the drop off but we could not get them turned on. This was the only fish caught that day. Slow rolled the swimbait on the Okashira head at a 45 degree angle to the bank over some large boulders at the drop off. "TICK" and she was there. This was my first Upper peninsula smallmouth and she did not dissapoint.