Traverse City Bass Guide Service

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We tailor our start times based upon what is best for our customers. Generally speaking we start our trips about 7:30 or 8:00 in the morning. Many of our customers are on vacation, and this allows them a bit more of a relaxed schedule, and to find the boat ramp during daylight hours, with less stress of navigating unfamiliar roads in the dark.

I'm an artificial junkie! I love experimenting with various lures and retrieves. For these fish, it's hard to beat a Lucky Craft Pointer or Strike King KVD jerkbait during the prespawn. Spinnerbaits can absolutely dominate as the water warms. I use a custom color that a friend and I developed specifically for these gin clear waters. Crankbaits can be phenomenal at times. CFlash crankbaits as well as the new line of Kopper's Live Target lures have accounted for some amazing catches. Of course, the Lucky Craft RC series is tough to beat as well. During the spring, it's not uncommon to hook into a feisty lake trout when casting crankbaits for smallies in the shallows. I love using swimbaits for giant smallies. Typically we won't get as many bites with this category of lure, but when we do, they all seem to be huge, and they absolutely crush it. Soft plastics such as Sweet Beavers, tubes, and craw imitations are staples here. Soft plastic jerkbaits can really be productive during certain conditions. Finesse plastics fished on a drop shot rig are also very effective. For every trip, I try to pour custom plastics for this drop shot technique.

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