It’s been something else to watch these guys visually fish for smallmouth on Ontario this week. With the calmest conditions you’ll ever see here, anglers are spotting bass from 60- to 70- feet and making pinpoint casts right to them.
There may be a little of the mastery of this lost in translation on the other side of the screen for some. As a southern boy who’s only spent a couple of days fishing for smallmouth on the Great Lakes, I can tell you that judging the location of a fish five feet from the boat through the refraction of the surface in 15 feet of crystal clear water is hard enough.
Not being accustomed to this kind of fishing, I made my first pitch like this to a smallmouth bass in about 12 feet of water like it was a largemouth on the bed in 3 feet. I missed the target by 5 or 6 feet probably.
And these guys are making dime casts at 60 and 70 feet. Very, very impressive.
