Guys, fishing has been real tough for me lately…
So, with tournament season coming up, I had to break in my new BassCat before things got serious. I headed downhill to Florida’s St. John’s River to get some practice in, but man… it was BRUTAL.
Florida just got hit with a historic cold front, and these fish were completely shut down. When you’re stuck throwing a wacky rig just to get a bite, you KNOW it’s tough.
BUT—we did manage to catch some wild species along the way! Ended up with a weird speckled catfish and a sucker-mouth catfish in the mix. Not what we were looking for, but still cool to see.
Follow along as I grind through a tough practice session, test out the new boat, and try to dial in a pattern before the season kicks off. C’mon, let’s go!
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It killed me with the way the co-angler was holding his rod. Whole head behind the reel not touching the reel rod or line. I bet he’s missed a lot of bites and big fish not feeling them. BUT DEFERENT STROKES FOR DEFERENT FOLKS !! Whatever he’s happy with works for him and he’s confident with. IS A OK WITH ME but it would drive me insane trying to hold my rod like that. Even when all we really had was pistol grip rods I had my reel in hand middle finger on rod pointer finger under my line so it moved up over and down going on the spool so I could feel better.
Must of been around spawn. I’ve caught 4 white suckers one day with a little crankbait.
Did you try scoping since traditional bite wasn’t producing?
The first one that is.
Those are called Speckled Cats down here.
Sucker mouth cat fish lmao😅 that’s not a cat fish Mike