Quick Bass Strike

A bass takes your surface bug the instant it lands on the river. This is great, but what is it telling you that you can take advantage of to have great fishing. First, you know you are reading the water properly to discern his feeding station. So continue to evaluate the river in this same manner to cover more feeding stations. Second, in order to successfully hook most of these “instant strikes” develop the skill of taking up the slack line with your line hand seconds before the bug lands on the river. This is easy to do by stripping the line over the first or second finger of your rod hand as the bug settles to the water.

Smallmouth Bass Fishing Report