Report For The Last Week

[tse90]

Well after some encouragement from other members in another post I decided I'd make my first report since I am out pretty often right now. If any of you have suggestions or questions feel free to let me know but I'll try to be as detailed as I can.

I've been out this week everyday but Tuesday and Thursday, including last Friday and Saturday, mostly to see how the Elites were approaching this part of the lake, launching out of Cape Fair. I picked up a bunch of old warts and got them custom painted by Fall Creek and wanted to learn to fish them as effectively as I could teach myself because I have never thrown a wart before.

Last week and the early part of this week with the weather consistently warming I was on a pretty good bite boating between 15-20 fish per trip. I didn't get anything over three on any of those days and probably about a quarter or a little less were keepers. Also the majority of the keepers were just over 15 inches.

Yesterday, Friday, my bite was a little different. Yesterday I boated 14 and had as many keepers as I did shorts. Had two bigger keeps being in the three pound range. The difference with yesterday compared to all the other days is my retrieve speed. I had to speed up my retrieve a bit more than the previous days I had been out.

Today, with little to no wind and blue bird skies, I knew the bite would be slower but I wanted to give it a whirl anyways because I only had 3 hours to fish and knew I could still get on a few. Ended the trip with 8 fish. The surprising thing about today was 6 of them were keepers and the best 5 would have went for about 13 pounds according to my scale. I caught my first 2 the same exact way so I started taking more time concentrating on those areas. The fish were all sitting in cuts on the creek arms. I had to be cranking it just fast enough for it to be grinding the bottom.

I was only concentrating on 3 areas all days until today. Two of the creeks were up river from the marina and one was down river. Today I wasn't having as much luck on my first spot up river so I started going back down the James trying to find a bit of a breeze and ended up hitting two other creek arms I hadn't tried in the last week. The key to the all days but today was around 45 degree banks with timber nearby. Today, the fish were all on banks that were less than 45 degrees, being a bit more flat, also having timber nearby. Had the boat sitting in 10 feet today making casts at a 45 degree angle toward the bank to cover different depths.

Like I said before I was committed to chunking the wart. I figured the bass were sick of seeing all the reds and oranges so I have been mostly throwing phantom green and PB&J which I threw all day today.

Hope this helps people who are interested. I will try to remember and take some pics when I am out from now on to show you guys on here.

[dtrs5kprs]

Good deal. That trend to the flatter stuff is a good sign, at least for some of us. Just watched all the go pro vids up and a few of the guy are fishing a little flatter places and doing well.

[Quillback]

Thanks for the great report, you got into some good fishing!

[jmes]

Thanks for the great report

[Sac River Jim]

thnx for a good report i watched alot of the go pro vids last night and seemed some of em were keying on the flatter banks. looks like your onto something.

[duckydoty]

Great report. Thanks for sharing. Only suggestion I can give you if you can, add some pictures. The info you have shared is fantastic!

[fishingaddiction]

Nice report. Sounds like you are doing quite well with the wart.