Trav's Fishing Report

[Trav]

Was a good day....

I spent the better part of today on the water and was quite surprised to see so many boats out there. There was quite a bit of fishing pressure for a Wednesday in late September. It definitely gave me flashbacks of Table Rock. However, unlike Table Rock darn near a hundred percent of the traffic were fishermen and not once did anyone crowd us or zip by ten feet from our boat. Usually I get frustrated by rude boaters but for the most part everyone was quite respectful.

And it was a beautiful day! Couldn’t have had better weather.

We put in at Nemo between seven and eight in the morning. The lake was about four feet below pool and there was still plenty of ramp for launching. When they built the ramp there they thought ahead. It goes way out there. I am pretty sure the Nemo ramp will remain accessible during the dam work, even if they have to drop the lake another three feet. There is quite a bit of gravel and sediment as you back in but it wasn’t an issue.

I never went any further than a half mile from the bridge all day so am not sure what the other ramps look like but I am sure there a few open. There was only about six rigs parked at Nemo and there had to have been three times as many boats in the Lindley Arm alone throughout the day.

We started the day up near Haverstick and I felt water was a bit dingy above the bridge. We only fished it for an hour or so before heading toward the clearer water downstream. The water temps ranged between 73 and 76 as the day progressed.

The morning bite was slow but it picked up tremendously after lunch. I started off throwing a spook since the water was so calm but with no luck, spent the rest of the day with spinner baits and cranks. The key pattern was to focus on the exposed timber. The baitfish would swell up and all you had to do is position yourself just offshore from where you seen them and cast parallel along the edge of the timber and do the occasional toss toward the shallows. However, we caught them at all depths. It didn’t really matter if the timber was sitting in forty feet or ten feet. If you found bait all you had to do is positioned your casts the same distance from shore as where they were.

Today was one of those days which got you thinking about the old tourney days. In all we caught twenty eight largemouths and sixteen of them would have been legal. No kicker bass but we could have culled two twelve pound sacks easily. Pretty good for Pomme. The best part was, after we left Haverstick, we only worked three shorelines the whole day to do it.

Going to try and get back out tomorrow afternoon so will let you know what happens.

(still haven't seen any AO dots on the lake yet.......)

[riverrat09]

Sounds like you had some pretty good success.

[Trav]

Sounds like you had some pretty good success.

Yeah, sure wanted to go again on Thursday but the little lady had other plans for me.....was a good day to get the lawn mowed and the garage a little cleaner....haha

Next week for sure I am going to get two days in!!

[conman]

I had a very good day Sat. It was REALLY nice to be throwing something other than plastics. White spinnerbaits in the wind and small jigs when I tried to get out of it. Happy with the number of quality fish, 5 over 15" and another half dozen over 13" on Sat. Great weekend.

Chris

[Trav]

I had a very good day Sat. It was REALLY nice to be throwing something other than plastics. White spinnerbaits in the wind and small jigs when I tried to get out of it. Happy with the number of quality fish, 5 over 15" and another half dozen over 13" on Sat. Great weekend.

Chris

I think the bass are liking the low water huh?...