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There has been a lot of schooling activity this summer and early fall on lakes around the country. I have enjoyed taking a break from hunting bigger bass and just setting the hook a lot on smaller schooling bass around Kentucky Lake. This video is packed with fish catches, blow ups, tackle talk and some of me, my son and Terry Bolton just goofing off and enjoying constant action the past few weeks.
Schooling fish is a great way to get a feel for baits, test retrieves, work on casting to visible fish, fishing lures more erratically. The fact that you have lots of fish to practice on makes it a great time to learn about lures, profile differences, triggering fish to bite and more that can help you in other fishing situations. I am usually chasing bigger fish around the lake but if you want to get someone like a spouse, child or friend into fishing, schooling fish can be one of the best ways to do that. It’s visual, fast paced and they often bite topwaters.
You’ll want to check out the pack of bass that follows my Whopper Plopper back to the boat towards the end of the video. It was like rats following the Pied Piper! Crazy what fish do sometimes!
Currently working as Senior Advisor to Wired2fish. Former COO and Publisher, Jason Sealock came to Wired2fish shortly after inception in January of 2010. Prior to that he was the Editor-in-Chief of FLW Outdoors Magazines. He worked up from Associate Editor to Photo Editor and finally Editor in Chief of three magazines FLW Bass, FLW Walleye and FLW Saltwater. He set the content direction for Wired2fish while also working directly with programmers, consultants and industry partners.
Sealock has been an avid angler for the better part of 40 years and has been writing and shooting fishing and outdoors content for more than 25 years. He is an expert with fishing electronics and technologies and an accomplished angler, photographer, writer and editor. He has taught a lot of people to find fish with their electronics and has been instrumental in teaching these technologies to the masses. He's also the industry authority on new fishing tackle and has personally reviewed more than 10,000 products in his tenure.
He has a 30-year background in information technologies and was a certified engineer for a time in Microsoft, Novell, Cisco, and HP.
He mostly fishes for bass and panfish around the house. He has, however, caught fish in 42 of the 50 states in the US as well as Costa Rica, Mexico, and Canada and hopes to soon add Finland, Japan, Africa and Australia to his list.
