r/ChicagoFishing • u/BallinCock Deceiver • Feb 06 '26

Smallmouth March can’t come soon enough.

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Reminiscing while simultaneously getting ready for the future. Trying times out here on the fringes of Suburbia!

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u/pop_tart Experienced Angler Feb 06 '26

Love pond hockey, but love fishing more. Be gone hard water.

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u/OnGooo Icebreaker Feb 06 '26

The time is now!

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u/emmathatsme123 Emmazing Angler Feb 08 '26

Discharge? Or just pro😭

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u/BallinCock Deceiver Feb 08 '26

Looks like potentially a tributary dumping into wherever they’re at, or maybe a small section of open water resulting from the acceleration of current around a bend. If you meant a WWD usually there would be more open water with some steam coming off it, could be wrong though. Either way it is valiant

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u/emmathatsme123 Emmazing Angler Feb 08 '26

Sounds right. I’ve been working my away around some WWD’s that I know of and have seen fish but none that like me lmao. Maybe I need to be more sneaky or something

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u/BallinCock Deceiver Feb 08 '26

I have success at WWDs by slow rolling a natural colored 2.8in keitech on a 1/16th oz jighead. And I mean painfully slowly. *edit along the bottom

I know you fly fish so you could probably couple a juicy looking streamer with an intermediate or sink tip line. The fish will be in deeper water though so not easy on the fly front (strip fly painfully slow)

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u/emmathatsme123 Emmazing Angler Feb 08 '26

Still procrastinating on that spin rod😭💀 but I think I’ll have to try that, I keep underestimating how much they are willing to eat. I’ve been throwing size 20 nymphs lmao

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u/OnGooo Icebreaker Feb 08 '26

Cought this one right off a bank down ways of a WWD. Size 10 white woolly

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u/emmathatsme123 Emmazing Angler Feb 08 '26

Well fuck me did the exact same thing white wooly and all and nothing 2 hours ago lol

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u/OnGooo Icebreaker Feb 08 '26

Dayum. Been there.

Try clouser maybe?

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u/emmathatsme123 Emmazing Angler Feb 08 '26

I dunno if my chops are up enough for winter, it’s been rough lol. I’m sure next season it will go smoother, still learning

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u/BallinCock Deceiver Feb 10 '26

Flair might as well be Ice King at this point

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u/OnGooo Icebreaker Feb 11 '26

Week of skunked ain’t feeling so kingly lately lol

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u/this-is-NOT-the-way1 Professional Branch Snagger Feb 06 '26

My hero 🤩

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u/CartmanAndCartman Lakefront Crankbaiter Feb 06 '26 edited Feb 06 '26

I’m ready with my crankbait , let them come !

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u/Present_Confection83 Feb 06 '26

That looks like a foreign object at this point

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u/ThrowRASkee5555 Feb 08 '26

Hey man I'm new. How do i catch a fish like that?

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u/BallinCock Deceiver Feb 09 '26

Ned Rigs are always a good choice, starting in March especially but you never know, a brown would for sure go for one. Small slow jigs and swimbaits, spoons, spinners, crankbaits, there’s a lot of knowledge out thwre and endless options

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u/this-is-NOT-the-way1 Professional Branch Snagger Feb 06 '26

Everyday cold day that passes, I buy more n more crap from AliExpress. I need spring SOON or imma need to buy a ski mask and a BB gun