Spinnerbait Bite, Alive And Well

[motoman]

Some of you may have in a few other posts, read about the spinnerbait bite. But, I figured it would be worth elaborating on in an individual thread. If any of this conflicts with a previous post in other threads, I apologize; but after tonights' action, the bite became a bit more clear.

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The bite seems to be best from sunrise to 10:00 a.m. and after 2:00 p.m. to sunset. In between there, it kind of tapers off.

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We've been throwing 1/4 ounce and 3/8 ounce, any kind of skirt, with some sort of majority being white in color, double willow blades (or single, in silver, or one of the 2, being gold).

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Throwing them in heavy timber, and verrrry gradual sloping pea gravel banks. (some of them had larger baseball sized rocks mixed in)

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Either paralleling the bank, or throwing to shore. Holding the boat in about 20 foot of water. Secondary points were working a bit too. All the bites seemed to come in about the 10 foot depth of water.

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This morning I caught a limit from about 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m., which would've gone about 15 pounds.

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Tonight a partner and I went out around 5:00 p.m., and could not force ourselves to come back in until it was PITCH dark, about 9:15 with heavy cloud cover, and a light drizzle.

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We boated over 25 fish; smallies, kentuckies and one LM. The biggest were a LM of 4.1 lbs, smallie of 3.9 lbs and kentuckies in the 2.5 lb range.

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Of the 25'ish fish we caught, only 4 were shorts. And all the keepers would have averaged darn near 3 pounds each.

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I was thrilled with these results, as I don't get down to The Rock, but only a few times a year.

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Hopefully this helps others, as this bite has really served us well!

[creek wader]

very good report

[Whack'emGood]

Nice job Motoman... and thanks very much for the report.

Whack'em

[dtrs5kprs]

Thanks moto, will work on them tomorrow.

[Jason Essary]

great report man. thanks for all the specifics.

[motoman]

No problem guys. Hope you can find some similar results. I'm back home now, and it's certainly bittersweet.

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But, I went out again this morning before leaving, and had another limit of keepers in about an hour and a half......UNREAL for me. Maybe some of you guys have regular days like this, but not myself.

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Our best action seemed to be on west and south facing banks. If that matters. And there are occasional breaks on the surface of baitfish all around.

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Let me know if anyone else gets out and has the same fun on the spinnerbait.

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I had even more fun with this bite, because I only own 3 spinnerbaits, a non-boater gave me he made a few years back. I simply never throw them, because I never caught fish with them. So after the bite was taking off these passed few days, I went to Wal-Mart (local tackle shops were closed) and grabbed some more. Dems War Eagle ones are real nice, but most of my fish were caught on a homemade 1/4 ounce one................and don't forget the trailer hook!