Man, it’s been way too long to get this entry up.  I took this fishing trip the day before Thanksgiving, I usually pride myself on timeliness of my fishing entries.  Oh well…..

So Dave Cindrich and I walked the banks of Mississippi in search of cold weather bronzebacks.  We started slow, as we each missed several bites on different soft plastics (grubs, tubes, craws, etc)  I finally got the hook into a few on a LFT Fork Craw rigged on a 3/16oz Picasso Shakedown head.  I usually throw a green pumpkin tube about 99% of time this time of year, but wanted to try something different and hope to draw a few bigger bites.  After losing a couple shake down heads, and wanting to save a couple, I went back to my usual 1/8oz tube head with a 3″ Power Tube and caught many fish.  I believe Dave caught most of his fish on a 3/16oz head and a Strike King Coffee Tube.

Not many pics, this is one of the bigger fish caught, probably around 2.5lbs, caught a few this size

At the end I rigged a bigger 4″ Mizmo tube on a Shakedown head.  I rigged this one in a fashion referred to as a “Stupid Tube”.  Which reminds, me that I need to take pictures to show how this is done, as I often get asked via email.  I picked up a few fish on this as well.  All in all, the bite was steady buy not great.  I believe I caught 33 or 34 smallies and a big 10lb plus carp and my guess is that Dave probably landed 12-15 smallmouth, took him awhile to warm up and get in the groove.

Picasso Shakedown Shakey head

Hopefully the weather warms before the end of the year, as I have a couple more vacation days to burn, but fishing is so much easier when its above 25 degrees out and your guides don’t freeze!!!
Rich
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