Trav's Fishing Report

[Trav]

Another Wednesday and another busy tourney going down. The lot at Hermitage was packed full of rigs. Does anyone know what tourney it was this week? Or what the winning weight was?

We put in at Hermitage around one this afternoon and fished until sunset. The water is now five feet below pool. The ramp there was accessible and they had even moved out the loading dock. I talked to a guy who was putting in a pretty big boat and he said Hermitage was the only ramp he would still use. He said Nemo has had some sediment pushed down by an earth mover and they left it in a pile in the water at the bottom of the ramp so he couldn’t launch there. I didn’t notice any last week so it must have been done recently. He also said the ramp at the state park marina ramp is now too steep for his rig. His boat was one of those big tri hull sun cruisers, maybe 26 feet or so.

We again stayed in the Lindley Arm and threw nothing but cranks today. Water temps were between 72 and 74 degrees as the evening warmed up. Twenty-eight Largemouths was again our total today. (and one lonley little white)

It was funny how we caught the same number of fish this Wednesday as we did last Wednesday. The wind was just about perfect as we could drift a shoreline and fish it pretty thoroughly without moving to fast or too slow.

I started off thinking standing timber today but the tourney guys were pretty stacked up in those areas. Fished one little stretch and decided to work flats instead. It was a good move. We didn’t catch as many keepers as last week. Only about ten of them went over fifteen inches but I would have had a solid fifteen pound bag where last week I would have only mustered a twelve pound limit. The best bite was found in ten feet of water.

We are going back out tomorrow. Haven’t decided whether to try out the Pomme Arm or just go to Stockton for a change of pace.