Tough Weekend

[Sprint21fter]

Fished winter series Saturday and thought we had a gameplan catching fish on steeper banks than what we have been fishing in the creek arms. Don't know what is going on with the fish or where they are at but we fished shallow stuff in the morning and didn't get a single bite. Made an adjustment we thought which was our new game plan that was hopefully going to work mid-morning but after two more hours of not getting bit doing that we just started following some wind and finally caught 3 keepers for a whopping 6.5 lbs with on being 3.18lbs. Terrible and tough.

Sunday we were going to dance with the big boys in the Anglers in Action and we figured if we would just get 5 keepers we would be close. When the wind was ripping in the morning we caught two solid largemouths shallow. We should have made our adjustment as soon as the wind started to lay but with what we had going up shallow when things are right we are catching the right fish so we stayed with it til 1:45pm because the way the wind was blowing until 11:30 we knew there would have been some big bags coming in. We moved out deeper with about 35 minutes left to fish and at 3:05 partners thumped two magnum spots and had 4 more little fish. Knowing we needed one more "just" keeper to give us a shot. Weight four fish just under 11lbs. A keeper would have put us in the top 3 for sure. Caught 10 fish and 4 of those just wouldn't touch.

This is what makes this game so much of a joy, there is alot of ups and downs throughout the day and at any second it can change. Keep your head down and make the right adjustments and good things can happen. Til next time. Good luck.

[Champ188]

Keep hammering on em, Sprint. Like you said, any second can bring the right decision that produces a winning/top 3 sack.

[Quillback]

Thanks for the report, you're doing better than I am. Fished hard today for four 12" bass.

[jmes]

We fished the AIA on sunday as well. We had a limit of smallie's early but just couldn't get any size. We got most of ours in about 30 feet of water
we had around caught around 20 with 9 keeps. Just under 10 lbs

[Sprint21fter]

Have been talking with some club buddies and local anglers around my hometown who have good track records up here and none of them are sure what is going on with the fish. Yeah we can go out there and get some bites right now and if you have five fish you will have 9-10lbs. A month ago me and my partner caught close to 18lbs and losing a solid 6lber during the winter series. All our fish except for one 2.5lb kentucky were 3.3/4lb-3.25 lb blacks. Since the first series of cold fronts them suckers have moved somewhere or suspended out over the channels releating to bait but we cannot find them on the graphs in trees or on the bottom. I know thats fall fishing but with as many good anglers that has been fishing the last 3 weeks in these tournaments and not one fish over 6lbs has been caught it just make all of us anglers scratch our heads. It is difficult to try and be patient with better days coming but when it changes like it has so fast and the places we have fished still have the shad on the banks and in the pockets to not catch anything makes you wonder "where are the fish." Adjusting makes or breaks us anglers, it is what makes this sport so great.

[jmes]

I couldn't agree more

great post by the way

[Champ188]

If there's any good news to your concerns, we all know the big fish are still there. And they'll start showing up again sooner than later. But you're right, it's a head scratcher when they do this. I think it has more to do with the bait than anything, which we all know is very plentiful. There's bait shallow and there's bait deep, so wherever the fish want to be, there is food.