prespawn fish

[beeflover]

what I saw before ice-up and what I anticipate as soon as the WI season opens up is lots of suspended fish just outside the spawning areas.

You can tell they're bass on the sonar because they're about 4 times as big as the schools of panfish around them

I can not catch these fish. I've tried jiggy worms, suspending jerkbaits, flukes, shad raps, traps, spinnerbaits...

I swear I'm going to suspend a 4in white Senko or a fluke wacky style off a slip bobber this spring

They'll probably wanna kick me out of my bass club if they catch me fishin a bobber. Maybe I'll really get crazy an put out an anchor. (I'll have to buy one)

But then they have talked about fishing hair jigs under a float once in a while for cold water smallmouth bass.

Geez even the WI opener is still 3 months away, no wonder i'm bonkers and rambling like this

[Crank It Up Pro]

Buy a Aqua-Vu and make sure they are truely the bass you believe they are,you wouldn't want to waste a bunch of time on some big suspended carp or worse.