This video was shot two minutes from my house in water I know well. Thankful for your insight…I’ll put it to good use!

Absolutely fantastic! Chuck full of knowledge nuggets!

Good ol' Rebel crayfish slays this time of year!

Awesome video Jeff. 5 good ones for sure

I live in Central PA below Harrisburg and recognized this river just by the mountains in the background.

Excellent video Jeff!

Awesome video Jeff!!! I think it would equally as good to do a video on the rod,reel,line setup(length rod,power rod,size reel,reel speed, all that jazz) for each one of those setups. Just a thought.

Great summer list. I’ll add a straight ned rig setup for my summer list. Green pumpkin if I could pick one color. These are just so effective in clear to slightly murky conditions. Bigger deeper rivers with heavy current they lose some effectiveness, but small to mid size they are unmatched. Your finesse jig is fancier version of this 😂 and the jerk shadz is similar as well. Basically a small plastic on a 1/10oz or less jig is mandatory summer equipment.

Excellent, I am a new subscriber, recommend by a friend! Love what your doing! 🔨🔨🔨

Loved the video especially the dead sticking stuff. Ever fish the Allegheny or west of the divide in PA? Would you use the same 5 or switch it up any? In muddy water do you stick with the chatter bait?

Thanks for sharing

Great video and lure info on catching Smallies! I just caught my first last week and Im hooked! Looking to fish this area so i'll be heading to Google earth!

You are right, smaller presentation and darker colors are key. I do well with small 3" Yum dingers, love them things. For topwater I use an all black mini buzz bait. I am in Missouri though but location should not matter much

Have you ever tried the miniMAX chatterbait on river smallies preferably in green pumpkin. With a spunk 4.5” spunk shad bit down to 4” I like goby bite and electric shad w a TINY dabble of chartreuse . I’m on the Mohawk River and they absolutely hammer it 5/1 over the jackhammer. We have a ton of goby I do well with GP, purple hues colors, black, and white/spot remover. The bite is viscous man. Try it out. Give me a shout out if you have success. I’m telling you, that blade starts up faster than any chatterbait and bouncing it off the bottom or burning it and letting it pendulum gets absolutely smoked by big aggressive river smallies

I’ve been kayak fishing for about five years off and on. I have been blindly putting time on water from here to there, and between your videos and podcasts that you have been on with Drew, I have learned so much. Obviously budget is a huge proponent of lure and tackle choices for most people, and I fall in that bracket as well. Have you ever used the cheaper Amazon whopper ploppers? Just wanted to see if you had experienced those. Keep up the awesome videos. We’re heading to the Clarion this weekend hopefully to get on some fish.

good stuff!

Yo Jeff, hijacking your thread but... I frequently tell the story of you and me on the Rapidan at flood, and seeing two kids in a (likely 'borrowed') canoe going down stream like a bat out of hell, using a shovel for a paddle. Then recovering their overturned canoe downstream of a strainer. (Apparently they made it to shore.) Then you rescuing me at the confluence with the Rappahannock. Thought I had lost the boat, and your good rod, but you and some Buds went back in a jet drive and recovered everything. Believe it or not, good memories. I was new to kayak fishing, and I think you were new to guiding/instructing. I think it was probably a valuable experience for both of us. I am in SoCal. I miss Virginia more than I can say; and miss those smallies; but I have found spotted bay bass which remind me of smallies in appearance and ferocity. Not in size tho. A 16 incher is "big"; but great fun on a ML rig. BTW, when I started out here and didn't know better, I was catching them on a Coffee Tube. Then i got hooked on stuff. Still throw the coffee tube occasionally. Celebrated my 87th last month and so blessed that I can still get the yak out to the bay from time to time. I pay a price, of course, but worth it. Couldn't resist a shout out Jeff. You are a quintessential fisherman/sportsman and gentlemen. It was good fortune that brought me into contact with you. All the best.

I've done well with the rebel craw crankbaits. And they're available in more than just red.

Great advice Jeff. I'm always curious about what your camera setup is. doesn't look like the typical GoPro setup, like it. Tight lines.

Good deal

Great video. New subscriber. One question , I wade in about a 1/4 of a mile upriver from the narrows/Harrisburg's version of Ellis Island. I work down river and hit rock ledges but like fishing grass beds as well. I do great on the grassy points of the islands there but only a few of them available. I can see my spot in the distance at the beginning when ur showing grass beds/plopper casts. How far up river from above mentioned spot do you start seeing grass beds? Side note, when fishing river, I swap out plopper stock trebles with VMC red trebles. Doubles hook up ratio immediately imo.

Well.....I've been fishing in that "area" and I've had some success but you have really narrowed it down for me. As usual great info and between you and Jake, you've both helped me alot. I've been getting alot of the smaller fish but have lost "contact" with the bigger ones. Any suggestions??

So I followed your advice and watched the video on dead sticking. In that video you suggested buying a good pair of polarized sunglasses. I would like to do so. Do you have advise or a video about choosing a good pair? I don"t have a lot of extra cash so I want to get it right the first time. I was looking at the Leupold Payload with bronze mirror lenses. I camp at and fish the Susquehanna River in Halifax, just north of where you do some of your videos. What do you think?

Where are you fishing the susquehanna at? Its my my primary spot up in montoursville.

When you’re fishing these five set ups does it matter throwing them with current or against ? BTW I’m really enjoying your videos, and I’m now a new subscriber

You're not the only one that stocked up on Live Target craws. If I lose a few more, I'll be down to just red ones. How would you recommend I re-color them to get them more brown/green?

I know a lot of guys throw chatterbaits and cranks solely on casting setups, but I noticed you were throwing the chatterbait and crank on a spinning rod. Is there any particular reason you choose to throw these on spinning setups? Great video

Where is a good access point to put in my kayak? I always wanted to fish by the little statue of liberty.

Where do you get your skirt material to tie jigs?

So, have any of these been bumped by something else?

Hey Jeff, why choose offsets paddle instead straight ?

It works for like 2 weeks in the spring... that's all I ever argue Jeffrey. Furthermore... I'm not a fan of this video lol