Beautiful Smallmouth Bass Snatches Z-Man TRD MinnowZ (Awesome Wisconsin Fishing!) #short

Z-Man TRD MinnowZ can be very effective on a wide variety of gamefish. I’ve used them to catch panfish like crappie and aggressive bluegill, green sunfish and pumpkinseed – even largemouth bass – but nobody seems to love ’em as much as Mr. Smalljaw!

Smallmouth bass are suckers for jigworms. Especially jig worms with scent and salt… which was what made this catch a little surprising. Z-Man TRD MinnowZ are just plain ElaZtech. They do not contain salt like the traditional TRDs or Hula Sticks – but they can still work well in different situations.

On this warm afternoon I was fishing the tail end of the Manitowish Chain o Lakes up near Minocqua, Wisconsin. We had fished for about 90 minutes with just a few tiny bites, and my son had broken his pole.

Well… I broke his pole when I was trying to snap his jig out of a tree he caught… but let’s not point fingers…

We continued to finesse fish along a beautiful woody shoreline – and as you can see, while finesse fishing can be slow, it can also be very productive!

Tight lines.

Let me know what you think – and if you have any luck, share your fish pics on Instagram and either tag me or shoot me a message!

Tight lines!

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