Big One! Stay on there! OH GOSH! That's a good one man.
It's amazing this is my third bite on one ramp. Don't do that! Another big spot, giant
spot. Get in here! Look at that thing, look at the belly on these things. These are two
and a half pound fish and they're only sixteen inches long. Gives you a good look at how
they're eating that thing. This big ol' fat spot has all crawfish in its belly. I can't
stress enough to everybody on these flat banks/gravel banks where a boat ramp is a change to that
miles and miles of gravel and then all of a sudden you've got that break. The other
thing about these men made boat ramps when they put them in before they actually pour
that concrete they make a form. When they do that they dig a little bit. So if you look
at these things in low water you'll see there's a concrete ramp that comes down, but on the
sides you've got the debris from where they dug it out. All these unnatural features that
break this gravel are perfect places to catch these fish especially spots and smallmouths
in the spring. That's that Scatter Rap crazy action side to side and another big fat spotted
bass. They're on these ramps dude, we're going to run around and fish some ramps today. I
just change the angle up a little bit too, and that's the other thing even with the Scatter
Rap. A big thing for me is changing angles to give those fish the same look a different
way. If you see what we did we had our first two bites upstream and then we changed direction
downstream and started casting at the same target and able to trigger another bite. Just
marked a big one right underneath the boat, they're definitely around this ramp here man.
I get the question a lot of when to pick a Scatter Rap over traditional DT Series crankbait
and for me it's a pretty easy decision. The primary things I think about when picking
that DT10 vs. the Scatter Rap Deep would be the availability of hitting cover. One of
the primary reasons a fish is going to hit a crankbait is what I call a reaction strike.
That reaction strike is triggered by the bait changing directions. So when I'm in a situation
when there's a lot of stuff to bang off of such as big boulders, big stumps, where on
every cast I can hit a piece of cover, most of the time I'm going to select a DT Series.
I'm going to actually bang this crankbait into the cover to make it change direction.
In other situations a lot like what we are fishing here today when you're on flatter
banks, gravel, more open water situations, a boat ramp that is very slick, and there's
not a lot of stuff to hit off of with not a lot of cover. That's when I select a Scatter
Rap. The beauty of the scatter Rap is you don't need anything to hit off of to get this
bait to change direction. Simply by changing that retrieve speed like we talked about earlier
from slow to medium, and then back to slow that baits is going to change direction just
because of that bill. So think about your cover. In heavy cover situations when there's
a lot of stuff to deflect off of use a regular DT such as a DT6, 10, 14. But in a situation
where there's not a lot of cover such as slick banks, gravel, or flatter more open water
situations. Use a Scatter, change your retrieve speed and you're going to make that bait change
direction.