After a brief warm up in river temperatures the action ground to a halt this last week. We had a hard time finding active fish to start last week off. A few lazy follows while running pull baits was about all we managed the first day. But this week was more about quality over quantity and I personally would prefer that everyday!

I decided to try throwing some of the biggest baits in the box and running them super slow in hopes that presenting them with a large easy meal would get one or two to go! That seemed the be the ticket and on day 2 we hooked 2 very large fish on the 14” BRM exclusive Dark Sucker Whale Tail, landing one of them. This would be the first musky my client Nora had ever caught , a true Virginia Giant! The 14” Dark Sucker Whale Tail has been responsible for multiple big fish in my boat this year, including some 50” specimens! 

Lesson for this week was , when the fish lay low after an abrupt temperature change in the late winter – try throwing some really big offerings to them and run them super slow. Just faster than the “stall speed” , the point at which your bait no longer has action – working these big baits just faster than that was the key !