St. Croix Pre-Practice & Catching Up

Things have been super busy, anyways my father and I were out on the St. Croix on Memorial Day from about 8 – Noon and launched out of St. Croix Bluffs park. I caught a smallmouth on my very first cast off a sandbar on a LC Sammy and my dad also got one on his first cast with a drop shot. The long and short of it is that we did not find any areas that did not have bass, caught close to 25 and about 5-6 of them were above the 14″ keeper range.

We caught fish on topwater, cranks & plastics. Most of my fish came on a Watermelon / Green Pumpkin Sweet Beaver texas rigged with 1/8oz. Tru-Tungsten sinker, force bead & smart peg shown below. The tournament is not until July 15th, so lots can change, but it was good to see the water.

On another note, I took 13th out of 65 in the Weekend Series up on Le Homme Dieu chain of lakes, which was the last money spot I hope to blog about my practice & tournament in more detail before I leave for Italy on Friday for 10 days. Also, we are up to 35 email subscribers!!!