First Trip Out

[cwc87]

Finally, got out to brave the cold and caught fish. Been looking at water temps and noticed that late in the day temps would get to 38-40 degrees. So a 10 am put in was in order the truck temp said 28degrees.

Motored up river 2 miles first stop jerkbaited crappie jigged notta bite. Couple more miles up same. Knew were some warm water was and at this point it was noon and I needed to get some adrenaline flowing to thaw out from riding and fishing. Got to The Spot and of course it was on everycast action. The waterflow was the lowest I ever fished The Spot but it didn't matter they were stacked and easy to catch. Biggest was 14.5 inch largemouth and a variety of bluegill, goggle eye, crappie. A crappie jig, and some plastic drug on the bottom. The coolest thing here was that I could see every fish eat my bait like it was a huge aquarium. Total caught here was around 50.

Up river couple more miles after a quick cold cut sandwich and a soda. Next spot was at end of long hole and had a 10inch largemouth chase my jerkbait but would only nose it and not inhale it.

Went on up to a known wintering hole and seen like 300 sucker fish on the bottom and at the head of the hole just barely out of the current I caught my first smallmouth of the year on plastic a pretty little 14 incher. I believe my smallies were stirred up from the sucker activity and no more bites in that hole.

Ran dowin river to second stop and caught a smallie on a jerkbait, then another follower. Ran 2 miles down to my first hole of the morning and my buddy caught the fish of the day a nice 18 inch smallie that had his bars on his side blazing with color. Kinda a great way to close out the day.

Total fish caught around 55-50. Only one spot was a spring, all smallies were in the main channel. I put in on a private access, river is low for this time of year and public access from were I put in was a good 9 miles in either direction