Fishing with Myers 365

06/18/2023

We did our annual St Clair trip last week, if you’ve never been, you gotta go!!

I’m pretty far on posting stuff, I get caught up soon.

05/14/2023

The last couple weeks have been really good. A lot of fish are on beds, really close to going on beds or already done and gone.

The river has been giving up some numbers but the bigger fish have been eluding me. Lots of 12-16 inchers, those fish seem to not care what you put in front of their face. The descent fish in the 17-19” range have mostly come Slash Pointer 127 worked perpendicular with a pretty fast current. All the fish have war wounds from the spawn and their bellies are pretty flat.

Last weekend I fished in a kayak derby down in Kentucky and was able to take 3rd place and Big Bass for the event. That day, it stormed most of the morning, dime size hail fell on us for around 10 minutes and lightning cracked for nearly an hour straight. I’d went down the morning before, I found a couple shallow banks that had some laydowns and hard bottom and fish were stacked!

I started off the morning up in a little pocket, that I had seen a couple fish on beds hoping to get both of them on the board to start the morning, that wasn’t the case. The morning rain and morning takeoff of the boat tournament had muddied up the back of the pocket. I worked the pocket anyway, as I worked the pocket to the back and was coming back out, I’d flipped my jig up again a dock, half backlashed, pulled the the line a couple times, picked up my line and my bait was about 10 feet from where I casted it. Trying to figure out what the hell was going on, I picked up all my line, felt a little tug and laid the wood to it, instantly I knew I had a goof fish! Her first jump, she threw the jig right at me, instantly I knew I just lost the derby and lost big bass for the day. That fish was close to 22” and well over 6lbs.

I left that pocket and headed to the spots that I’d found the day before, not a single bite. I messed around heading to places that I knew there were fish spawning, nothing, nothing, nothing. Finally, I just went exploring new areas, I was side scanning different areas up in one of the creek arms and found a riprap bank that was hiding a ledge up against the bank. As I turned on my Livescope, I had a single fish staged just outside of a dock, I tossed a glidebait just passed and in 3-4 twitched she smoked it! 20.5” and my head was back in the game. I worked that same bank, and about a dozen casts later, I got another good one on a jig. I junked fished the rest of the day flipping a jig and a senko and scraped up a small limit good enough for third.

04/29/2023

The last couple weeks have been pretty good for both lakes and river.

Yesterday, I took the kayak out and did pretty good. I caught fish on a bunch of different stuff; topwater, skirted Neds, Glidebaits and a flipping jig. The Glidebait produced the bigger fish, finding schools of crappie on my Livescope and seeing isolated fish on the outside of these schools was the key. For numbers my brown jig with a green pumpkin trailer put more in the yak then anything.

I’ve taken several little bank trips over to the river after work. Each day been a little different, some days they were in the fast fast current and other days they are just hanging out in the shallow slow moving water. The days I find them in current, it’s been on all swimbaits, best way is hopping it up, let it flutter through the current. The slow moving water has been on all jerkbaits, and I’m working it fast with short pauses.

I fished in a kayak derby last weekend at Brookville and took 2nd place. It was a pretty cold morning and I had doubts if I was even going to catch them. Those doubts got erased when I caught two fish in my first 10 casts. I caught fish off and on most of the day. Every fish came off a piece of wood on a rock bank. Either bouncing a jackhammer off the wood or dissecting it with a jig.

04/18/2023

Got to take a short float today, wind was really tough to fish in today but I managed to catch 5, and two really good ones! I got a good one yesterday too along with about a dozen 14-15”.

Today was all swimbaits, in the current or just outside the current, wishing I had just a tad less wind so I was able to hold better in certain areas. With the swimbait I was letting the current sweep it down or I was hopping it off the bottom like I was worm fishing.

Yesterday, from the bank it was a mix of jerkbaits and swimbaits, the swimbait bite was better right in the current or on the edges and the jerkbait was doing it damage at the end of the runs.

And I got my first 20” of the year!

04/16/2023

River finally came down and got clean really fast. Now I’m asking for just a little rain just to dirty it up a tad, spring time just doesn’t have a happy medium.

I’m catching lots of smallies but no really good ones, there’s a few 18s mix in but most are 14-15”.

Most fish are coming out of a current on a moving bait, swimbaits or jerkbaits. More times than not, when you find a little seam in that fast water there is a couple in each spot.

Todays prize was an 18” polkadot smallie!!! 🐄🐄🐄

04/09/2023

Since everything around me is chocolate milk, I took a couple road trip to the Columbus area. Water was still pretty dirty but I managed to slap a few in the boat.

First day it was all flipping a jig, rock banks with a piece a wood. You really had to dissect each piece of wood to get them to bite. No fish was deeper than 3 foot.

Today, I started off with a Jackhammer and had two in the boat on my first 10 casts. They were still really tight on the wood, if just roll it right over the wood and they smash it! Later in the afternoon the bladed jig bite died and I picked up a few more flipping a jig on wood.

Feels good to get my line stretched after a crappy spring!!

03/15/2023

Gotta new toy over the weekend! I can’t imagine how many more fish I’m going to catch!!

03/13/2023

Earlier last week I hit one of the local lakes up to see if the green bass had moved up. I dropped the boat in and the water was 43° and warmed up to 48° by the end of the day. The entire lake was muddier than chocolate milk, I was there and gave it a shot for a few hours.

I headed way up in one of the creeks, knowing that this muddy water would bring a bunch up shallower than they normally would be this time of the year.

I put on my brown 5/16oz jig trailed with a green pumpkin trailer and went to work. Didn’t take long and I slapped a 15 incher in the boat. He was in just a few inches of water pretty close to a little run off that cleared the water just a little. I went the next two hours without a bite.

Unlike I normally do, I didn’t let that first fish tell me what to do. I went a hit a couple more area that were set up exactly like the first, rocks and a little runoff. Not saying I smoked them but over the next 3 hours I put 11 more in the boat, every fish was in less than 4 feet of water.

03/11/2023

01/15/2023

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If your in the Cincinnati area, stop at the show and get you a pack or 10.

01/13/2023

Some of the best squarebills in the market!

Our booth is almost ready for the that starts tomorrow and runs through Jan 15th. Come see our and take advantage of our show prices.

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01/13/2023

If any of you are heading down to the National Fishing Expos - Cincinnati show this weekend I’ll be at Booth 713 for Tackle Talk and leading a couple seminars on Friday and Sunday. Stop by and say hey!