May 22 To 30th

[bjovan]

What a great week for fishing, the weather could have been better(for my wife). We stayed at Indian Hills resort. Top notch cabins and people Jim and Becky are great! I had never fished that area of the lake so if was fun learning new water. Indian creek is a fishery by itself but I had look around and had a ball of the eight days on the water I will say I got the better of them, but the fish did beat me for a day and a half(just to let me know I am not that good). We got on the water around 3pm the first day and they were biting a shakey head on creek channel banks put 3 keeps in the boat with one being 4lbs. We worked our way back into the creek just scouting around found a great little bank that gave up 3 more keeps with a 5 lber in the mix on top what a way to start the trip! Sat morn got on the water early 5:05 with the fog trolled over to the long point by the resort. had several blow ups but was batting zero on hook ups. Left those fish and ran up to the flats just past 17 and wore them out on a spook 4 keeps all 3 lbers plus a bunch of 13 to 14 inchers. great morning! Sat eve was a shakey head night in little indian channel bank had 3 more keeps 16"er 3.5 lber and the big momma of the trip 6.25 lber! Sunday was a good day for top water early with a couple keeps on a spook and a Mikey and missed fish had two good jaws pull off and one heavey Kentuk pull off put a 4 lb in the boat with the head those all came from the cambell point area. Monday was a wash out for us so we dinged around the area wound up having wings and a burger at Ahoys. Tuesday was tough for us went looking for fish for the freezer (gills and goggel eyes) found a bunch of bait stealers and a couple of good ones we put 10 or so in the freezer. Wends the schoolers made my day but could not catch them on the head they were bitting funny for me. Thurs am just down from Cambell point was a great top water morning for me had three keeps on a Mikey and spook an had two heavy fish pull off and jumped off a 5 plus it was a great show but I wish I got her in the boat. Friday Claudia came out with me in the morning for some top water action (cold out) she caught one about 14" and jumped off a 3 lber on a finn the eve was a bust for me but we did find more gills during the day. Sat the last morn was frustrating and fun at the same time. Fished the Cambell point area and had schoolers all around but they would not hit my bait. I thought about leaving but calmed myself down and then put six in the boat in short order with three being keepers. All in all a great time for the week learned a little about a new area of the rock and met some great folks at the resort. Sorry for the long report.

Bill J

[Ämp]

I got totally skunked sat. night fishing.. so your post makes me feel better, i took a whack at everything in the james river arm . the only real strikes i ever got were around the boat docks .. every thing was just slaping it around and not actually grabing it.. i had one really good bass that i winched up from 20 ft of water, got him to the side of the boat and he fliped off before i could get him in . I hope they start getting active soon, not really wanting to battle the house boats in my lil aluminum just to catch a few bass so i guess i will keep pluging away at the james arm til something happens for me ..

ps. whats the shakeyhead things im always hearing of ,anything like the wildeye shad from wal-mart?

[motoman]

The shakeyhead is any soft plastic worm worked on a jighead. Many companies came out with specific shakeyheads, but they really don't differ much from the jigheads my grandfather would throw back in the day. Just marketing I guess.

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But it's a very effective way to catch 'em. Worked slowly on the bottom. My experience is the less you work it, the better. some people like to give the worm a shake or twitch occasionally on the slow drag back. I just slowly drag it back myself, with the occasional pause, to let the worm sit, and the tail stand up off the bottom.

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Here's a link with a pic. (I can't get pix to post anymore for some reason?)

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http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt...26safe%3Dactive

[Ämp]

I have a few of those , guess i just didnt know the proper term.

[motoman]

I have a few of those , guess i just didnt know the proper term.

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No problem Amp. I chuckle at it myself, I've always called them jigheads. But, I'm guessing some marketing team with the jighead manufacturing association decided they needed to move more jigheads, so they started pushing jigheads, fished with a worm; and gave them a new name.

[SRV1990]

The shakey jigheads I use are like these:

http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/stores/s...010000_100-10-6

I like how you can screw the worm down on the spring, helps to really keep it in place. Many of the shakey jigheads on the market have the worm keeper protuding from the head at an angle from the hook shank.