Trav's Fishing Report

[Trav]

Not much of a pattern but at least they are moving up.

I launched this afternoon at Cape Fair and headed downstream. The temp in the lake dropped from 60 to 57 in less than two miles. At the ramp I got a momentary 62.

In the back of Piney I did get into 60 degree water again. As I worked my way out the average was about 58 though. Keep in mind, these are all surface temps.

We did manage to pick up about a dozen sports in three hours. Most were Largemouth and there wasn’t a female in the bunch. And they were skinny. They looked thin and hungry.

The first five fish were caught on five different baits. Stick, swim tail, crank, blade, grub. In that order and the colors were just as diverse, chartreuse, purple, yellow, blue, and white. There really wasn’t any rhyme to it all.

No single approach was really nailing them but it was quite obvious they were on the verge. The ones which were hitting didn’t really care what you threw at them.

I will say this time next week is going to be the start of the good stuff for this end of the James. They are beginning to shake off the cold winter.

It wasn’t a crazy day but it was so nice to finally catch active fish in the 10 to 16 feet range instead of the slow tedious work of the 20 to 30 range.

There was only one consistent thing I realized. The majority of what we caught seemed to be down wind of these pockets of stagnate stained water. The best way to describe the color of the patches is rusty. It had an orange hue. I assumed it was minerals being wave washed off the rocks from the shore. I may be wrong though.

It was quite evident the fish were staging outside of it though. There was no action inside these areas and the shores which were void of it had little to no activity.

That is as close to a pattern that I could muster.

I am going to try and go back on Tuesday. I will try to narrow things down more.

[Flippin]

Thanks for the report

[jdmidwest]

BOO YA, YIPEEEE, AIEYYEEEE, Toss me another beer and lets stick a knife in it.......

Did ya ever notice that you take the time on here to write up a decent fishing report and all you get is a few stares? But try to make a statement about something or post an opinion and it is dogpile on the wabbit....

I can't wait till this weekend so I can finally get out and wet a hook.