maiti Posted April 10 Report Share Posted April 10 Caught a couple pictureworthy northern strains today. 4 lbs 10 ozs on a Hiroshima hardtail. This bait is an xxxs, almost suspends. I was fishing a main lake point, fishing it with reel pops and long pauses since the water is still pretty cold. Kinda remarkable catch since I don't usually catch very many decent fish on hardbaits (except rats). Then I caught a 6 lb 10 oz fish on a secondary point inside a cove on a 7" Citizen in about 7-8 FOW, fishing it pretty slow on/ near the bottom. Honestly surprised to find a shallow fish this early in the season, but sure glad I decided to spend half an hour in that cove. Mossyback Angler, 168 Rookie, 253caster and 17 others 20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mossyback Angler Posted April 10 Report Share Posted April 10 Couple of solid fish right there. Well done maine y yak and maiti 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MountainMan83 Posted April 10 Report Share Posted April 10 Nice catches! maine y yak and maiti 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cchapraps Posted April 10 Report Share Posted April 10 Nice dude, always on some quality fish! maiti and maine y yak 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chang127 Posted April 10 Report Share Posted April 10 Good stuff and great breakdown! Regarding the Citizen fish, you mentioned being surprised to catch one in shallow water at this time of year. Do you have any theories on why the fish might have been in that particular location, rather than its typical location this time of year? maine y yak and maiti 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassbass Posted April 10 Report Share Posted April 10 Good ones maine y yak and maiti 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maine y yak Posted April 10 Report Share Posted April 10 Damn Right! Nice pair. Gotta love a citizen bite maiti 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maiti Posted April 11 Author Report Share Posted April 11 4 hours ago, chang127 said: Good stuff and great breakdown! Regarding the Citizen fish, you mentioned being surprised to catch one in shallow water at this time of year. Do you have any theories on why the fish might have been in that particular location, rather than its typical location this time of year? No idea. Maybe she was sunning (there was very little sun, but it was in the 70s), maybe she has an early spawning calendar, maybe something else. One fish doesn't make a pattern. Sidenote: I've learnt from Matt Allen when he was still "supermat" on the swimbait forum(s) and way before Tacticalbassin really took off. One of their recent videos (forget which one it was) was the reason I've been trying shallower stuff for the last few trips. Paid off yesterday. chang127 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bass_summoner Posted April 12 Report Share Posted April 12 awesome work! extra points for wading in my book maiti 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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