Fishing Report for Smallmouth Bass using Hard Topwater (Popping) in Summer

18 Wheels of Steel

Gold Ambassador

7/23/21

Lake Umatilla

• Species

  Smallmouth Bass

• Season

  Summer

• Technique

  Topwater Popping

• Structure

  Rip Rap

• Forage

  Shad

Landed 8 of 10 on a Rebel Pop-R in Sexy Shad colors, plus 2 or 3 more on a swimbait in the evening, the misses were followed up by casts to the same areas and were rewarded virtually instantly with a blowup, so I probably caught both of my missed fish, the fish were not at all interested in a football head jig, or the buzzbait I offered them, seems that crippled shad is the preference today, seemed to be a pretty even split between the strikes being in the sun, shade, calm, and disturbed water conditions, pretty much if you were over the rocks at the first drop off from shore and popped your popper every few seconds in an erratic pattern you were getting bit.

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