“It’s crazy how everyone you catch is spitting up crawfish,” said Jacob Foutz as he battled in a big smallmouth. I’m from sultry sweet home Alabama. And as deep as I am in the south, I’d consider myself equally deep into fishing. But still, I have preconceived notions like everyone else. And I can’t help but think “goby” almost every time I hear “northern smallmouth”. But this deal here is not a goby deal.
Nine of our Top 10 anglers are fishing in Anchor Bay this week, something that has surprised even the most experienced members of our crew with extensive experience in this area, like Mark Zona who hails from nearby, Dave Mercer who has spent countless hours chasing bronze-backs and Davy Hite, who has won here before.
Hite mentioned at some point in the broadcast that the location of the crawfish is the reason for the shift in location of the biomass of smallmouth. There’s a massive school of smallmouth (often referred to as biomass) stretching for miles across Anchor Bay. As Hite pointed out, that’s where the bait is this time around, so that’s where the bass are.
Worth recanting, Hite added that the crawfish seem to be more prevalent in the shorter grass, and then the bass that are hanging around the taller grass are spitting up perch, something Luke Palmer has noticed several times where he’s fishing back further in Anchor Bay than the rest of the crowd.
