Strike King and Lew’s pros Mark Rose and Mark Davis hit the water at Mullett Lake in Michigan to show anglers how it’s done when fishing for smallmouth in fall up north.
“This is as real gets right here,” says Davis.
Both Rose and Davis are from the south, respectively, and neither has fished on Mullett Lake before. Since they are unfamiliar with what to expect, this gives viewers a real-life play-by-play of their thought process as they work the lake, finding the best locations and depths to target smallmouth.
Rose and Davis are headed out to fish on a day in mid-October, with temperatures the night before in the 30’s causing a thin layer of ice to cover the surface of the water. The weather is an adjustment based on the typical patterns they would expect in the south, with all grass and smaller vegetation mostly absent in Mullett Lake.
Despite venturing into unfamiliar territory, they are quite optimistic because they have the right Lew’s and Strike King equipment for whatever the day brings. “The equipment part of it – tackle – we got that covered. But we’ve got to figure out how to catch them,” Davis says.
Davis and Rose catch two smallmouth at nearly the same time, with Rose having the bigger of the two on a Strike King Rage Scounbug. Davis caught a sizeable smallmouth on a Strike King KVD Drop Shot Half Shell.
“The ‘ol Scounnnnbuuuug – you gotta say it right when you say that bait,” says Rose.
Davis and Rose release their catches and continue patterning the lake in hunt of more smallmouth.
Rose is fishing with a Team Lew’s Mark Rose Signature Series Carolina Rig Rod and using a Strike King ¾ oz Tungsten Carolina Rig Weight and the Rage “Scounnnnbug” in Green Pumpkin. (Scounnnnbug = a deep, southern critter in the words of Mark Rose.)
