Big M Area 10/1/2012

[Quillback]

Started off fishing a couple of cove backends, lots of minnows flipping around in the backs, but didn't see any bass chasing them, threw topwater. jig and senko and could not get bit. Decided to head out to the main lake points and try and find a drop shot bite. Graphed a couple of points, didn't see any activity, but kept hunting and found some active fish. Got some on the drop shot and around 9 AM had a bit of a topwater bite (wind came up and put them down after about 20 minutes). Ended up with 17 bass, mostly spots, 2 LM. Spots were just a tad better than the usual ones I've been getting, one measured at 16.5" and had several in the 14-15" range. Zoom finesse worm in Old Purple was working well. Fish were in the 20-30 FOW range.

Threw an SB on a windy bank for a while, no love for it.

Had the drop shot on the bottom, saw some topwater activity, set down the DS rod, tossed the TW out there and hooked up on a 12" fish, looked down at the DS rod, and sure enough, the tip was being pulled into the water. Picked up the DS and now I had a rod in each hand with a fish on. Only probelm with that is I didn't have a free hand to reel Ended up putting down the DS rod and keeping my foot on it, boated the TW fish, then boated the DS fish. Pic below.

Water temp 73.

[jeb]

Sounds like a good day, Jeff! Wish I could've gone with.

[Bill Babler]

That was a problem we would all love to share. Great Report