alwayscatching
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With the weather being back and forth. I found that on Rice Lake and a couple other lakes the Largemouth bass have shut down. Fishing areas that n the morning started off at 68 then moving upwards to 72 by 3pm, The largemouth seemed to have been a bit deeper instead of pushed up in the shallows. After the storms we had I have been having a tougher time looking for the buckets, but the smallmouth bite just has been great still! I was fishing a tube on 10lbs fluorocarbon spooled onto my shimano stradic FJ paired with my 7'1 Ft M action rage. I bounced the tube off a few rockpiles when I felt the biggest tube bite I have ever felt. At first my heart stopped thinking it was a monster bucket because of the lack of jumping, once it came closer to the boat, I was thinking maybe it was a very nice walleye based off the fight and how the fish was staying down. Then I saw the fish and I was amazing. It turned out to be this big gator! I was fishing lake seymour and pike are not that populated on that lake just yet similar to Rice Lake. It took around 10 minutes to finally get the fish tired and in the boat for this photo.
