The South Jersey Slam was the one film that I would call a true winter fishing trip. We wanted to catch several species. That turned out to be an educational experience. We caught crappie, yellow perch, bluegill, pickerel and perch on small jerkbaits and grubs. There’s really nothing special about that. They bite pretty good even in cold water — we had temperatures all day in the low 40 degree range — on most conventional lures.
What I really want to talk about are the bass. They’re hard to catch when the water gets that cold in my neighborhood. Fortunately, however, I knew about a trick I learned back in the 1990s during a local tournament to deal with lethargic fish. The ones we caught actually had mud on their bellies from lying on the bottom.
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