Back On The Water (finally)

[Tom Spence]

Going out tomorrow to break in the new rig. It finally got delivered last week. I'll take a nice and easy tour de Table Rock and start fishing wherever I end up after the mandatory 2-3 hours of running. Hopefully I'll be able to post a good report tomorrow night!

[Don House]

Going out tomorrow to break in the new rig. It finally got delivered last week. I'll take a nice and easy tour de Table Rock and start fishing wherever I end up after the mandatory 2-3 hours of running. Hopefully I'll be able to post a good report tomorrow night!

T, go out and have some fun for the rest fo us.. Should get some wind and warmer weather, have a good time..

Good Fishing and Break In

Don

[techo]

Low 50's, wind and sun.....I smell spinnerbait and wigglewart! Have fun in the new rocket.

[motoman]

Give us an update on the new rig, and the fishing T. But, hopefully you stay out well after sunset, beacause the fishing is so good?

[Tom Spence]

Well, heres all I can say about my first Champion boat...awesome! The boat ran great. I bundled up and put in at Cape Fair with a full tank and did my break in run to the 86 bridge on Long Creek and back to Cape. Fished from 12:30-4:30 in the longer creek arms between Cape and Aunts Creek. Only caught one short fish on the wiggle wart. Had a few slap at it but they wouldn't hook up. Didn't get touched on a blade. Caught 4 or 5 shorts and just one keeper on a brown and purple flash fb jig w/watermelon candy paca chunk. My bites were 25-30 feet on chunk rock 2ndary points. I was probably spending too much time on each point and should have been runnin and gunnin a bit more. Dropped a white war eagle spoon to fish I saw on the graph but no takers. Water temp in the afternoon was 54-55 in the creeks. Still a bit warm. Did catch two keeper (barely) spots in deep dock stalls on the spoon. They were suspended about 10 feet off the bottom in 30-35 ft. It was good to be back on the water. Hope to be back out there soon.

[Ham]

You mention the water being "too warm". Was that too warm for a good spoon bite?

I'm really wishing I could hold on to this 50-55 ' water for another month. Will the bass still eat a FB jig as the water cools below 50'?

[Don House]

You mention the water being "too warm". Was that too warm for a good spoon bite?

I'm really wishing I could hold on to this 50-55 ' water for another month. Will the bass still eat a FB jig as the water cools below 50'?

I was on the main lake today and the Jig bite is really slowing down to only a few from last week of 3-4 limits. But that is the main lake creeks... Below 50 degrees jig that spoon right in the middle of the creek arms, or even maybe a stickbait..

Don

[Tom Spence]

Yeah Ham. When I say too warm I meant for the spoon bite. Like Don said, very soon you'll be able to get right in the middle of the creek arms and jig the spoon vertically.

[motoman]

Yeah Ham. When I say too warm I meant for the spoon bite. Like Don said, very soon you'll be able to get right in the middle of the creek arms and jig the spoon vertically.

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Good info T! Glad to hear you're pleased with the new rig. Sounds like fishing wasn't too shabby either? At least you didn't get skunked.

[Ham]

Thanks Don and T. I'm relatively new to the area and trying to get a general feel for when and where. God knows that the "rules" are meant to be broken, but a basic understanding of what "most" of the fish are doing at general water temperature ranges would be a huge help to me.