Greers 1/18/09

[Cody Smith]

Water temperatures on the Main Lake are 48.5 - 49.5 degrees, partly up some of the creeks water temps fall off to 45- 46 degrees. There was a small amount of baitfish up a select few of the arms, Rocky Branch and Drip Creek. However not much action seen by gamefish up these arms. All of my bites came on ledges just off the main channel and drops off of sheer banks. Depths of 15 to 32 feet. Finesse fishing produced all of the action. Light line and light tackle was the ticket. Some nice LM's and Spot's where boated on the windy side of these location's. Speaking of the wind, it was howling across the main section of the lake producing some nice 3 footers. Fished jerk bait's, cranks and spoons which resulted in nothing. Slow presentation and sticking with the schools once you located one was the only way to boat a mess. There are definately some nice fish to be caught, it's just slow right now with my artificial's. Good Luck out there and Be Carefull on the water~