The Metro Flats is true to its name. It’s table top flat with little patches of grass scattered around. Big schools of smallmouth move around this flat because there is no real structure to hold them.
Like a pack of wolves they roam around this place looking for gobies, yellow perch or emerald shiners to feed on.
As an angler you are drifting or moving from grass patch to patch watching your electronics hoping to head them off or see them to cast to them.
This is where lure selection and ability to read and utilize electronics will separate the field.
In the time it’s took me to write this blog we have seen Brett Preuett and Austin Felix catch big smallmouth. They are easily 200 yards or more from each other and we are in between. So there’s those that break off from the pack and probably multiple schools.