Pretty Decent Day

[Champ188]

Decent day in BFL on Saturday. Fishing only his second derby ever, my co-angler partner won with a fine five-bass limit totaling 13 pounds, 7 ounces. He fished an Eakins jig 4-10 feet deep all day, getting most of his bites along the original shoreline. Until very near the end of a short day (2 p.m. weigh-in), he had all 3 species (LM, SM and K) in his side of the livewell. He finally culled the K around 1:30, at which time I told him he was "spotless." He got a kick out of that, but not nearly the kick he got from the $1,600 check he won.

As for yours truly, I finished a lackluster 11th with 11 pounds, 10 ounces. Topwater bite was really off in my areas, even early, and couldn't get much going on a jig. Ended up catching about a dozen keepers, nearly all by swimming Kinami natural shad grubs 6-20 feet deep in pockets. They seemed to want the grub pretty close to the bottom. Mix of LM, SM and K's. Never could get that one big bite that I needed.

We fished from KC to Big Creek, keying mostly on steeper pockets with timber. Fish were schooled up pretty tight ... once you found them, you could catch 5-10 in pretty short order, with a few keepers amongst them.

Saw a couple of post asking about fish in the bushes ... can't find them with any consistency. Seems the closest thing to that kind of bite is to work a jig just out from the bushes along the old shoreline.

[bluffboy]

That report is one of the many reasons I have been praying I draw you at Bull.----I really need a check!

[BrianS]

Saw a couple of post asking about fish in the bushes ... can't find them with any consistency. Seems the closest thing to that kind of bite is to work a jig just out from the bushes along the old shoreline.

I had around 19-20 lbs on Bull today flipping bushes. They were in the back ends of creek arms in 0to 3 ft of water. Not sure if this info will do any good on the Rock but if there's bushes in the water I dont see why not especially in the Cape Fair area

[Champ188]

Thanks, Brian. Headed over to Bull this morning for the day. Didn't go up the James arm at TR and the bite might well be on in the bushes up there. I was in the White.

[BrianS]

Champ,

The best bite now is in the Lead Hill area on up. Fish the back ends of the creeks with a lizard w/ a 1/2 oz Fla rig. Flip the bushes and sawdust (hint hint)