Swepco 1/11/2013

[nwaoutdoorsman]

Fished the hot tub today. We did something a little different than I'm accustomed to doing. We took bass minnows and floated them about 4-6' under a cork. I've used live bait for a lot of things, but never bass. We didn't catch the monsters we had envisioned, but we caught a pile of 2lbers. And they were a lot of fun on light tackle. We did catch a few on artificials, mostly plastics 5-15' deep. But no doubt the live bait saved the day for us. Water temp at the discharge was 89 and 65 at the dam. If you haven't tried it, I highly reccommend giving it a shot. It would be a great place and technique to take a kid or someone new to fishing where they could catch a lot of fish and maybe catch a really big one. I've heard of several over 8 being caught over there so far this winter.

[J-Doc]

Several over 8lbs?? Awesome!! SO ready to get my boat back and head over there! Sent from my DROID RAZR using Tapatalk 2

[Quillback]

Thanks for the report, those Swepco fish should be getting close to spawning.

[Stump bumper]

I would love to get some big minnows and fish them off the bottom over there, I am sure there are double digit bass in that lake. Thanks for the report.

[nwaoutdoorsman]

Thanks for the report, those Swepco fish should be getting close to spawning.

I thought we might see some beds, but I never saw any. It should be getting real close.

[nwaoutdoorsman]

I also should add that if you do take minnows to slowly add some warm water to your bucket to acclimate them. The water in the bait tanks is around 60-65 degrees and if you drop them in that 89 water over there they'll only last a couple minutes at best.