The Erie smallies will be in big schools, as we get into March head to the east side of Kelly's Island with some bladebaits of your choice, in the 3/8 to 3/4 oz size.
If your not familiar with the area, look at a map and find the big point near the airport runway, it's a good place to start.
I fished out there once, and that's exactly where I started. There's some good looking smallmouth structure along the bottom. The only probably was I didn't catch any there. It was a sheephead fest! On the backside of the island (north side) I was able to locate some. I guess the bottom line is there's a ton of places for those fish to go. They have their pick of good spots.

I will say this, I never went deep as 40 foot. I will be checking some of those depths this year.

RUBF Fishing and Hunting Reports

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