Nov. 24, White River, Eagle Rock To Big M

[merc1997 Bo]

got out a while this afternoon thinking there should be a good crankbait bite. wore the bills off of two old wiggle warts, and not one bite.

started looking around out in the channel and would find an area with several suspended fish hanging around. started shooting at them with a spoon and BAM. started whacking them pretty darn good. we had at least a dozen keeps, with several in the 3lb. range. 7 or 8 big whites, and lots of little ones as well as non-keeper bass. biting range was from 20ft. to 40, with 30 being the most consistent. most fish were out over 50ft. of water. the real crazy thing was there was not any big shad schools around. many times there would just be a pod of fish weaving around.

i am certain that these same bass are going to the bank with the right conditions. today being post front, just was not that type of day. goes to show to be flexible in depths and presentations. remember that champ the other day went through the gamit of shallow attack, and came upon the jerkbait bite and pounded them.

it was a bit of a battle keeping the boat over the fish in all the wind.

bo

[gatorbitu]

Nice job cracking them! What type of spoons do you use?

[Champ188]

Good job, Bo. Takes some willpower to stay after those deep fish in wind like we had today.

[merc1997 Bo]

Nice job cracking them! What type of spoons do you use?

the spoons that i use were made by battlefield wire, and used to be called a chime spoon. they were made off of a 3J mold, but are made with zinc instead of brass that the 3J spoons were made of. we started out using chrome, but i switched to a white to see if the bite was better, and the white got bit a lot faster. finished up with a chartreuse though.

bo

[merc1997 Bo]

Good job, Bo. Takes some willpower to stay after those deep fish in wind like we had today.

i would have been happier if they had been on the bank biting wiggle warts. i love catching them up shallow, but sometimes it just is not going to happen.

bo

[Pepe]

Thanks for the report, Bo. Great job of adapting. We tried for a few hours early afternoon in the wind. I stayed with what I thought "they ought to be doing" and blanked with cranks and blades. There was plenty of room on the lake. We only saw one other boat, a Triton near Icebox that ran up the Kings.

Don't know if I'm mad enough at the fish to work vertical but sure appreciate you posting some help.

[Quillback]

Good job Bo - glad to hear you got into them.

[fishingaddiction]

Way to figure it out Bo. Must keep an open mind and check deep and shallow and everything in between. Thanks for posting.