Where'd The Nice Fish Go?

[jeb]

Well, I fished sun up to sun down on Saturday. It was darn chilly around sunrise. I need to remember to start dressing a little heavier this time of year! Not much happening in my usual haunts around Praire Creek, so tried some mid-lake spots on the way down to Rocky Branch. Caught a small K of a rock pile mid-lake, and found a few schools in some of the side cuts along the Rocky Branch arms. Caught 8 bass out of one school, but the only quality one got off at the boat. About half of the others were legal K's, but not by much. Fishing finesse jigs with worms.

Caught a couple more on the bottom up Ventris arm on 1/2 oz jigs, but again nothing of any size. It was a fun day, and I did catch a fair number of fish, but still a little disappointing to not have any quality fish in the boat. Saw a lot of guys pounding the banks in the back of creeks, but didn't see them doing much catching.

So where'd all the good fish go? I thought they all but jumped in the boat this time of year.

[Quillback]

I fished Saturday afternoon in the Indian Creek area, there's a lot of small spots up there also, I was using a Rat-L-Trap and catching them on that. Nothing of quality size however, I did have a nice smallie on until it jumped and tossed the lure. I think there's too many spots in that lake for their own good. I read that AFG is considering reomiving the size and numbe rlimits on them so that they can be fished out a little. I was using a finesse worm on a jughead also but I had to stop using it because the little spots would not leave it alone, they grab hold of the tail and play around with it, it get's aggravating after a while. I was fishing back in a cove where the shad would come up every one in a while and the spots would go after the shad, but there was a heron that as soon as it saw the fish feeding would fly over to try and grab one, that put the fish down right away.