russ010
Well-known member
Well I was lucky to get out of the house this weekend to fish.. best day was definitely Sunday for me. Saturday I had to leave by 1230pm.. luckily I caught 1 at 12:15..
Saturday was better - but the wind was tough that morning. Around 2:30 the wind died down and I was able to zero in on some nice keepers around standing timber. Most of the fish I've been catching have been in the 10-20' range.. however, I've had 1 and seen 3-4 pulled out of the 5' range. Water temps are around 45-47 depending on the time of day and area of the lake. All of these except for 1 were in the 13-14" range, largest was 15" and went right at 2lbs. 3 were caught on ShakeyHead jigs with either Roboworms in Aarons Magic Green with red/black flake, or Christmas purple weenie. The other 2 were caught on shakey head with Zoom Swamp Crawlers in Watermelon with Gold Flake... I'll put it's pic below.
Here is one that came from deep water - I was actually able to get this on video with my regular camera - you can just barely hear the hissing when I bleed his swim bladder.
I also had a little time to do some "bass training" with them...
Today was tough. I got the first keeper at 9:30, and after that I was fighting the wind and tried my best to get into the standing timber and use it as wind cover (and as a boat anchor). I didn't get anything in there, but I did get something start spooling line off, and I have my drag set high. He wrapped me around a stump and that's all there was to that. I had just sprayed some god awful smelling garlic spray on a watermelon seed zoom finesse worm which of course was on a shakey head.... I tried all kinds of lures today. Saturday I saw a guy pull out a 3lb'r right beside me with a rattletrap, he was yo-yoing it - I tried every variation I could think of today with no results. Also saw some bass come out on a shad rap - tried that too with no luck. Not a bad weekend though, just glad to be able to get out of the house and also have today off from work.
Todays only fish.. I did get about 5-6 bites, but they were all short strikes... the smaller fish are coming in like crazy.. can't find the big ones like before.
Saturday was better - but the wind was tough that morning. Around 2:30 the wind died down and I was able to zero in on some nice keepers around standing timber. Most of the fish I've been catching have been in the 10-20' range.. however, I've had 1 and seen 3-4 pulled out of the 5' range. Water temps are around 45-47 depending on the time of day and area of the lake. All of these except for 1 were in the 13-14" range, largest was 15" and went right at 2lbs. 3 were caught on ShakeyHead jigs with either Roboworms in Aarons Magic Green with red/black flake, or Christmas purple weenie. The other 2 were caught on shakey head with Zoom Swamp Crawlers in Watermelon with Gold Flake... I'll put it's pic below.
Here is one that came from deep water - I was actually able to get this on video with my regular camera - you can just barely hear the hissing when I bleed his swim bladder.
I also had a little time to do some "bass training" with them...
Today was tough. I got the first keeper at 9:30, and after that I was fighting the wind and tried my best to get into the standing timber and use it as wind cover (and as a boat anchor). I didn't get anything in there, but I did get something start spooling line off, and I have my drag set high. He wrapped me around a stump and that's all there was to that. I had just sprayed some god awful smelling garlic spray on a watermelon seed zoom finesse worm which of course was on a shakey head.... I tried all kinds of lures today. Saturday I saw a guy pull out a 3lb'r right beside me with a rattletrap, he was yo-yoing it - I tried every variation I could think of today with no results. Also saw some bass come out on a shad rap - tried that too with no luck. Not a bad weekend though, just glad to be able to get out of the house and also have today off from work.
Todays only fish.. I did get about 5-6 bites, but they were all short strikes... the smaller fish are coming in like crazy.. can't find the big ones like before.
