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I would have agreed with you a couple years back as I've caught thousands of smallmouth and pike surface fishing an original Rapala, but I don't use them much anymore because the various surface chuggers let me cast so much farther and I've caught so many bass at the very end of those long casts, casts that I would never had made with a surface Rapala

But, as the water temperatures in the rivers and near shore of Lake Superior slowly reach the upper 40s, the smelt still come to spawn each spring

If youre in a rut, is it hard to get out and start putting together better finishes

Joined Dec 22, 2007 Messages 19,296 #1 I found another good reason to keep a section of para cord around today

You then make the cast as you heard it described

Once casted, you hold the rod with your left hand and reel in with the right