Jan.1St And 3Rd Mid Lake

[OldMillRoad]

With duck season coming to a close, and a rough one at that, I figured I would run down to the lakehouse with my wife to ring in the New Year. I guess the good Lord took pity on me and blessed me with some great fishing. 28 keepers in two days. Caught a few on the jerker and a-rig in the cedars, but most came on a spoon in 40-50 FOW. By Saturday the shallow bite dried up on me, but the deep fish were going nuts. Spitting shad all the way to the top. I even had a few around popping them on top, in January!!!! It was a great way to ring in 2015!

[Bass Enforcer]

Awesome fishing! Great job. I was down on the third. Fished all day without a bite. Ouch! Worst I've done in a long time.

[abkeenan]

Nice Largies! Sounds like I need to get more proficient with the spoon.

[merc1997 Bo]

way to smack them! sure hope this extended cold will not put a stop to the deep bite, but it seems that when the water gets much below 48 the shad schools seems to disperse.

bo

[fishingaddiction]

Excellent catching Jeff. Glad duck season and Royals baseball are over for you, now you can concentrate on fishing. Good to have you back on the Forum.

[Sore Thumbs]

Nice. I love all the pics.

[Quillback]

Great stuff, thanks for sharing!

[OldMillRoad]

Thanks guys. Trips out like that don't happen very often and the fact that it happened in January was something else. Hard to beat this lake when it's right. I did have a bunch of mallards mocking me back in Wolfpen, I reminded them that the South zone was still open and I wasn't scared to come back with my Ol' Beretta. The Arkie boys can have em now, on to the green fish for me.