Saturday March 28

[KC Trout Fan]

What was the winning weight and who won the AiA??

[techo]

What was the winning weight and who won the AiA??

Per Mike....Scott Berry and Wes Darnell from the Satellite Division won the tournament with 5 fish weighing 20.47 pounds.

[smallmouthjoe]

Hey Techo, if that guy you saw fishing a spinnerbait was fishing from the shore it was probably me or one of the local guys I know on aunts creek. Saturday was one of the best days of fishing I've had on the lake in a long time. I was just walking the north shore of aunts creek fishing a spinnerbait in the far backs of coves. There was at least one big fish in the back every cove I fished. I was cold, wet and miserable, but I was catching fish so it was great.

[dtrs5kprs]

So there I am, throwing a dinky little bait on light line, trying to simultaneously control the line, the boat , my balance, the troll motor, and count: one mississippi, two mississippi.... I don't even like Mississippi.

Arrrggh.

Very well said indeed. Like scooping water out of a jar with a dipper made of water.

[Bill Babler]

Guys, you don't have to get a stickbait down to 20 ft. to have a fish that is already 20 ft. deep eat it. Water is pretty clear now everywhere except the river arms that have runoff. Most of the stickbait fish I am catching are in the top of the water column, and even if they arn't, they will come and get it.

Had a huge number of keepers this afternoon, on a slim pointer 100 TRS. I mean a big number. Most of these fish were cruising windy flat gravel and chunk points in under 20 feet of water. They were eating the paint off the pointer.

Pass it up if wind is not on it, but if you can find a breeze on a point, you can catch-em. Spoke to 3 other fisherpersons, 1 was cranking and the other two were jig fishing. They were all catching lots and lots of fish, but very few keeps. I was catching all keeps on the stickbaits.

Had one guy come up to me and told me he had just fished the point I was on and had not caught anything, but from across the lake had seen me swing at least 4 fish and came over to snoop.

I told him what I was doing, and caught another one while he was sitting there watching. Ended up catching 7 keeps off that one point.

The suspend dots, help the bait maintain a netural bouancy or sink in water temps under 50. As the water warms these baits will not sink as well, and you can use FCarbon to help, but the normal pointer or McStick will usually run 5 to 7 ft. If that bait is 7 ft. down and the fish are 20 ft. That is no step at all for them.

I have caught dropshot fish that were on the bottom in 50 ft. and when the dropshot hits the water and starts to sink you can see them rise to the bait. Many times they will rise to a spoon or a dropshot as much as 40 ft. They will do the same thing with the stickbait.

Don't need to now however, they are cruising and running from 4 to 16 ft. on most good windy banks.

Good luck and throw that stickbait.

[dtrs5kprs]

Bill...not to hi-jack, but besides the good bite, what impact do you think the weekend weather will have? Did we lose much temp?

Reminding me of 2 years ago, although the cold weather was a couple of weeks later then. Ended up being a pretty good spring.

[S&M]

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As well as my membership on this website.

[motoman]

Thanks Bill, I've got much to learn about the ins-and-outs of the stickbait thing.

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(but I was able to pick up the basics enough to want to throw it some more!)

[ozarkgunner]

dtrs5kprs,

To give you an idea of how the cold front changed water temps in the James river arm, I fish last Wed and water temp at the back of Aunts Creek was 54 to 56 degrees, on Saturday the water temp was 50 degrees.

Bill is right about not having to get the stick bait all the way down to the fish. I really really really worked the bass over the last two weekends on a Rapala X-Rap "Extreme Action Slashbait." The water was so clear where I was fishing you could see the bass coming off the bottom to smash the bait. I think I found a new bait to replaced my Smithwicks. The only bad think is cost................. $7 bucks a pop.

[dtrs5kprs]

dtrs5kprs,

To give you an idea of how the cold front changed water temps in the James river arm, I fish last Wed and water temp at the back of Aunts Creek was 54 to 56 degrees, on Saturday the water temp was 50 degrees.

Thanks. That's not as bad as it might have been. I'm stuck here in KC (the big one, not the one on 13HWY, unfortunately) until after Easter and am trying to dial in as much as possible. Wish we could all get together on a standard day for Easter (as in last Sunday in March, or similar). Wouldn't mean less to me, but would sure make scheduling better.

I sort of liked it 2 yrs ago when we went from spawn to cold and ice and pre-spawn, then back to spawn. Was like getting two spring flings.