Fall 2019
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imon Frost is known as a “smallmouth bass
Come fall, smallmouth feed heavily on minnows, crayfish
Jedi” for his uncanny ability to sit on fish and
and gobies to consume the necessary proteins to survive the
make the right five-bites
on brutally cold winter. The key to finding fall-time smallmouth
tournament day – even under the
is always remembering that they use a transition as a
toughest conditions.
feeding highway while holding tight to the edge.
He focusses his attention on
Defined transitions, like slate rock to broken rock, big
smallmouth behavior on various
rocks to smaller rocks, rock to mud, sand to mud, sand to
bodies of water as the sole
weed, and mud to sand, usually contain inside turns which
proprietor of Frostbite Guide
attract better quality fish.
Service. It’s no fluke that Frost
has topped the seven-pound
mark several times on Lake Erie.
A smallmouth is a
smallmouth, regardless
of where they live and
despite their sometimes
nomadic and stubborn
behavior, what works
for Frost can be applied
anywhere.
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