Smallmouth Ledge Feeding Station

From the middle of July through September you can catch many nice smallmouth bass upstream of the ledges lying across the Rivers. Those ledges which are flat on the upstream face with water six inches to a foot deep flowing over them provide perfect feeding stations if the water is two to four feet deep. Wade into the river 30-40 feet downstream of them and cast a Shenandoah Blue Popper 6 ten feet upstream of the ledge and strip it just slightly faster than the current. The strike usually comes when the Popper is a foot upstream of the ledge. Often I’ll wade and fish upstream for hours using this tactic.