Little Dixie Lake 9/15/12

[moguy1973]

Went out yesterday with a friend and didn't have much luck. It was our first time fishing there and it looked pretty low. Lots of standing trees poking up above the surface that look like at normal lake levels would be underwater. Caught 6 largemouths between the two of us and lost about four others. Nothing really to brag about as most were dinks under 10". my friend caught one that went about 13-14" that he thought was just a branch but when we freed the line from the branch the fish was on the end still. Most fish were caught on shakey heads and a few on cranks. The biggest one I caught was a 2 1/2 pounder that I caught pretty much by accident. I had a 1/8th oz rooster tail on my spinning rig that I threw out to see if I could get a crappie or sunfish and when I cast it got hung up in the wind and only went about 15ft or so. Pretty much as soon as I started reeling it back to the boat I got a bite and thought it was a big bluegill by the way it was fighting. As it got closer to the boat we saw it was a pretty decent fish and it was fighting pretty hard, even taking some drag. Got the fish in and indeed I had caught a bluegill. It was halfway down the gullet of the bass. Guess that fish was real hungry.

Overall, I bet that lake does real well in the spring during spawn in the shallows, but it seems pretty heavily pressured and we couldn't really find the bigger fish in the open water.

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Isn't crazy how those roster tails will catch just about anything.