Jigging Spoons Around The Dam

[ten_scoach]

Has anyone had any success jigging spoons around the dam? I was thinking about giving it a go on these warmer days

[Fishin Hodge]

I was in the area last weekend and had some sucess, caught fish in as shallow as 20 feet out to about 40 on the bottom on a spoon; . I got on a school of fish, caught 10 or so fish with 5 keepers in the 15 pound range and then it was dead as a hammer. Tried to get on them the rest of the day and I could see fish and catch an extremely occasional short fish, but it was done.

If I had missed that school feeding by 15 minutes first thing in the morning, I believe I could have been skunked.

Terrific Bite/Extremely spotty and timing can't be overstated.

[merc1997 Bo]

it will depend on whether the shad are still gathered up, and then water temp. if under 50, i have not had as good of success using a spoon as i have a gitzit hanging in front of their nose. i had a friend call yesterday, and he had been out the day before for a bit. he stated finding shad around 60 to 70ft., but could not getting any takers on a spoon. he said he was reading 48 to the water temp. here is one trick that will work sometimes, particularly for kentuckies, to catch them on a spoon with a 48 degree surf temp. you simply just hang your jigging spoon. i use mono for this because you will have some line twist. the spoon will sit there slowly twirling back and forth. just bump you line every now and then, and they will whop it, sometimes anyway. i normally do better hanging a gitzit down there when below 50 degrees.

bo

[merc1997 Bo]

I was in the area last weekend and had some sucess, caught fish in as shallow as 20 feet out to about 40 on the bottom on a spoon; . I got on a school of fish, caught 10 or so fish with 5 keepers in the 15 pound range and then it was dead as a hammer. Tried to get on them the rest of the day and I could see fish and catch an extremely occasional short fish, but it was done.

If I had missed that school feeding by 15 minutes first thing in the morning, I believe I could have been skunked.

Terrific Bite/Extremely spotty and timing can't be overstated.

those were some really nice chunks.

bo

[Fishin Hodge]

Yeah I was tickled to death. Had one just over 5 1/2 that helped the average quite a bit though.

I will 2nd what Bo has said on the deep shad deal. After that initial flurry, for which I never really saw a big ball of shad during, most of the shad I saw where from 50-70 feet deep. I could find fish swimming around in the area the bait was in, but the fish were not right in the bait, mainly swimming from 50 foot up to 20 and then back down to 50. I know they were KY's because I caught one of the on a grub, had one other bite on the fish doing that up/down deal, but that was it.

If it all lines up you'll catchem quick, but my experience had me scratching my head the rest of the day.

[Fish24/7]

hodge,

when you see those fish on the screen going up and down in the water column try a blade bait like a sonar or silver buddy.

Cast it out count it down and slow roll it.

Now when the fish get tight to the bait the spoons seem to work better.

good luck

[Fishin Hodge]

Thanks for the tip. I'll have to give that a shot.