Spring Creek Area

[Cajunangler]

With the current weather we are experiencing I doubt this report will help anyone much but here it goes. Ham and I got out this past Sunday (12-14) and were able to fish the entire day from daylight to sundown. We launched at the Spring Creek area but did most of our fishing closer to where the Theodosia arm enters the main lake channel. I am sure everyone remembers we had wind blowing at 20-30mph with higher gust and that made us look for areas where we could keep the bow of the boat in the water so the troliing motor could get traction. But I must admit we had a very good outing. Not quite as many keeper sized fish as we would have liked but between the two of us we boated 45 bass (k's, LM, and smallies). The very same pattern we have all been seeing on TRock, fish in the 5-20 foot range hitting either warts or football jigs. We did manage a few on the wart but the majority of ours came on the jig.

Fishing through the entire month of December was no big issue in Louisiana but being able to get out in mid-December up here and catch good numbers was very enjoyable. Toldeo Bend and Sam Rayburn get much worse than these lakes up here but we still encountered high enough waves that running became crawling in spots where the wind had time to build. We only saw two other boaters crazy enough to brave the eliments, and I must admit the weather people had the timing on the frontal system very accurate compared to their usual guesses. We didn't have anything besides mist all day until I started the drive back to Nixa after dark, and then BAM the front hit me just south of Highlandville. Temp dropped 25 degrees in about 10 minutes and my boat got a good washing from the rain. Oh well, it will have plenty of time to dry in the garage before my next outing.

Hope I wasn't too specific with my comments. I wouldn't want to get anyone mad out there.