First Sunday Of October On The Upper End

[rps]

I was encouraged by the reports in the last week of shallow fish and even some crank bait fish. I changed my game plan to accomodate the shorter days, the fog, and the chance of shallow fish. I left the marina at Holiday Island at 7:30 and fished Leatherwood Creek and several cove and creek points down stream from here. Seven spots in five hours, all from less than 15 feet. One on a jig with trailer, five on a 038 wart, and one small fish from a buzz bait. The jig fish and one of the wart fish were legal. One other wart fish was nearly so.

I also fished a chug bug and a Mikey Jr. wake bait with zero success.

The crank bait fish wanted a slow and erratic retrieve with pauses and starts.

While the end result was not impressive, I am encouraged. I am more hopeful now that there will be a strong fall shallows bite this year. If one happened last year, I missed it. I remember fondly the year before last.

[tapout]

rps, I'm also hopeful the shallow bite is good this fall. I went out saturday from Joe Bald to Smith Branch and fished shallow from 7 am to 1 pm. Had 15 fish. 1 keeper LM and 1 keeper SM. The rest short K's. All were jigs, xps shallow crank, and watermelon finesse worm in 4 to 15 feet. I saw lots of boats deep on points I think dshotting. Curious if they did any better.