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> While fishing the kayak championship at Lake McConaughy..."schools of smallmouths stationed in deep water along the dam. Some of the fish were periodically moving up to feed on baby crawfish in the shallow riprap.
> "...Z-Man Micro GOAT β a 1.75-inch twin kicker-tail bait with a ribbed, slightly-flattened body. ...Hughes swam the morsel on a 1/15-oz Micro Finesse ShroomZ Jighead...employed a loop knot. Frequently, he would let the bait hover and then "soak" in place between rocks....
> "Unless you want to catch loads of other fish, though, you can only do this for bass when hordes of panfish aren't around. But when bass are zoned into small forage β which happens way more often than we realize β these little 2-inch baits become hero fish-catchers."
He also said the ElaZtech plastics mean the small baits hold up to many bites and they stay out of rocky snags better. Also:
> ...the legendary Ned Kehde downsizes his offerings, shifting from classic finesse baits to the next scale of micro. ...scaling back from his usual finesse rigs to morsels barely exceeding 2", Kehde and friends have continued catching over 10 bass per hourβthis on some of the heaviest-pressured reservoirs near Kansas City.
> Kehde has long advocated the use of tiny 1/16-oz jigheads with #4 or smaller hooks. "I've never had an issue hooking even big bass with this jig...."
> This fall Kehde has continually posted glowing reports while casting both a 1.75" Micro TRD as well as a "radically shortened" (3") 'junebug' Finesse WormZ, each affixed to a 1/15- or 1/20-oz Micro Finesse ShroomZ Jighead.
> Vibrant baby blue (self-painted with fingernail polish) and fire-engine red jigheads remain Kehde's favorite colors.
Vibrant baby blue?? Interesting....
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