Hi folks, Guided with the boat yesterday afternoon with spin gear for smallmouth and largemouth bass. Helluva nice day outside for the end of September with air temperatures reaching 70 degrees. The water temperature was 64 degrees and no wind to speak of. The fishing was pretty darn good yesterday. We cast the same lures all afternoon. Fire tiger stick baits worked great and we caught a percentage of our fish off the surface. A good day for larger fish and all of the bass looked stuffed from feeding. The fish of the day was a almost 19" smallmouth bass. We landed 9 bass with an equal mix of smallmouth and largemouth. It seemed that the smallies were schooled up as we hit pods of them with steady action and then there would be a lull in the action and we would pick off a few largemouth. I set the boat up in 20' of water and we cast to the channel edge in 5' of water off heavy weed beds. The fish were coming up out of deeper water to eat in the shallows. We still really need rain. Looks like summer type water for the next few days. I will be guiding trout the next few days. Remember to clean your gear and keep the non-native species at home. Have fun, Willy
