I modified over from my bigger 13cm/33g Savage Gear Sandeel V2 Weedless and clipped on the Savage Gear Sandeel Pencil 125 within the sandeel color. I knew it was pretty shallow the place the bass had been doing their factor on the bait as a result of I saved smashing into submerged rocks with the Sandeel V2 Weedless. My pondering was that the explanation they weren’t smashing our lures was maybe as a result of the bass had been dialled in a smaller bait species. I do know the Sandeel Pencil 125 will not be a critically small lure size smart, however it’s a narrower profile and to my eyes doesn’t look “huge” within the water. A number of casts later, as soon as I had labored out find out how to get the lure in amongst the feeding bass with the angle of the wind and a variety of rocks, I connected and landed a bass. I saved casting the Sandeel Pencil 125 however acquired no extra fish, so I modified right down to the smaller Sandeel Pencil 90 however nonetheless caught no extra.
I then thought of a slower, barely extra refined method the place I might maintain a lure a bit longer in that fizzy water, so I modified tack and rigged up a 6’’ OSP DoLive Stick on one of many 6/0 Savage Gear weedless corkscrew hooks (no belly-weight, simply how I just like the 6’’ DoLive Stick if the circumstances enable). As a result of this smooth plastic casts so effectively I used to be nonetheless capable of get the lure to the bass which we continued to see busting out of the water on bait, however issues didn’t change. I used to be getting just a few plucks and bangs on the lure, however the fish weren’t committing, and I wish to suppose I used to be fishing the 6’’ DoLive Stick okay.
