After a week of crazy cold nights big winds rain, the Smallmouth bite was really hit an miss. Fishing Sunday boating a fish every 20-30 minutes bouncing spot to spot, using a swim bait an live bait, our fish came out of a depth consistently plus 25-35.
Spoke with a buddy at 1130 in a club tournament not a fish in the boat, by tournament end they had 18 pounds of 18 lbs of fish to weigh (an win). Dale Hollow to a tee persistence is key.
Water temp was 52 when I came in we caught 8-10 fish throwing shad toward the deep side of the spawning areas grass seemed to be better than small shell rock