{"id":72970,"date":"2019-05-22T21:26:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T02:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/?p=72970"},"modified":"2019-05-22T21:26:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T02:26:26","slug":"sturgeon-bay-small-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/sturgeon-bay-small-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Sturgeon Bay small talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sturgeon Bay small talk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although it was disappointing to have the Fort Gibson Bassmaster Elite Series stop postponed, I never like to waste an opportunity to go smallmouth fishing. So instead of heading home, I drove up to Sturgeon Bay, Wisc., to fun fish and compete in a few local events. I\u2019m fishing the Sturgeon Bay Open, along with some other Elite Series pros like Gussy (Jeff Gustafson), Seth Feider, Chris Groh and maybe Brad Whatley.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what I\u2019m finding out about the smallmouth bite right now.<br \/>\nLate-start spring<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no doubt that spring this year is definitely behind schedule \u2014 about two weeks behind, I think. It\u2019s been cold and we\u2019ve got a ton of high water, but that\u2019s not a bad thing for the fishing. It can actually make it better.<\/p>\n<p>In Sturgeon Bay this week I\u2019m seeing water temps from 44 in the big water to 55 in the backwater. The smallmouth start making their beds when the water gets into the mid-50s. We\u2019re not there yet. Instead, we\u2019re still in full prespawn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bassmaster.com\/cory-johnston\/sturgeon-bay-smalltalk?fbclid=IwAR0yAbvDzXqq_5WKeEeH3sC-zyC_SI1qOpSJnxKsHvn9GJ8j3nTyG2-dwCE\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sturgeon Bay small talk Although it was disappointing to have the Fort Gibson Bassmaster Elite Series stop postponed, I never like to waste an opportunity to go smallmouth fishing. So instead of heading home, I drove up to Sturgeon Bay, Wisc., to fun fish and compete in a few local events. I\u2019m fishing the Sturgeon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11658,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-tournament","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"youtube_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72971,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72970\/revisions\/72971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}