The smallmouth bass rivers are now low and the bass are very wary. However, they still need to feed. This opens the door to one of my most effective and enjoyable tactics of the whole year.
At dusk I head to the tails of the large pools. I wade into the riffles below these pools and turn to wade upstream to the upper reaches of the riffle…but I do not enter the above pool yet. From this location I cast my Murray’s Floating Chub Minnow upstream into the very tail of the upstream pool. I use a very slow strip-drift-strip action every ten seconds that swims the Floating Chub Minnow along the surface just slightly faster than the current. By gradually wading upstream into the main pool and fanning my casts over all of this fast water I often catch some great bass.
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