Fishing Korea & Tennessee

Before we get started, let’s do a couple of sunrise pics, which have been lacking lately; mainly because, well, there just haven’t been a lot of pic-worthy sunrises this year, unlike last year.

Now that we have that out of the way, let’s get to the fishing, as it were.  I went out both yesterday and today, and the total between the two days is 29 bass – but before you start applauding and asking for autographs, they were all dinks.  Every last one of them.

See what I mean?  I’m not sure what’s going on but suddenly, there are tons of dinks along the shore, hiding among the rocks.  As I’ve proven numerous times on this blog, I don’t have a clue when it comes to bass and their behavior, and what little I do know comes from what I hear, read, and half-ass theorize.  My best guess is that with the warm water temperatures, the bigger ones have all moved to deep water (except for the occasional one that comes into the shallows to feed at night, which is why I head out as early as I do), and with the big ones gone, the dinks feel safe to hang out in shallow water again.

I did manage to catch a slightly bigger one on a white, 3/8 oz spinnerbait while I was trying out my Quantum baitcaster, on which I had recently put some Stren Magnathin 10-pound line.  The water is really clear in the area I fish, so I was trying some thinner line along with a smaller lure to see if that would make a difference.

Well, because dinks deserve their release pics too.  This was actually my second attempt, the first one was gone by the time I pressed the button – those little guys can move