Baxter

[Quillback]

Fished Sunday from 7-4:30 out of Baxter. Caught 8 with 5 keepers, primarily coming on a jerk bait. Fished a lot of different areas with nothing to show for it. Pulled up to a point back in a creek and caught 5 in short order in less than 10fow. Tried to duplicate this, but no luck. Tough day for me...guess I should have plied the depths.

That's a good day this time of year, I've talked to several people out on the water this weekend that were getting skunked. There's always a few guys out there that are catching the heck out of them, but most of us are having to work hard to get fish.

Seems when you can find them, they'll bite, but finding them is hard, and you can find them on a point back in a creek like you did, and then fish 10 other points like that and not get a bite. Just hard to figure out.

[Sac River Jim]

Fisherman, had a good talk with you and Jeff after the tournament. As for my day, luckily the 3 I boated were keepers I fished the rig all day fishing channel swings and points inside of the channels at the mouths of pockets in the big creek arms. Until 1:15, I was getting a couple of bites an hour. Unfortunately, when the fish would bite and load up on it they would have the teaser bait and when I would set the hook I would have a bait missing. Very, frustrating but thats fishing, may have figured something out for a little bit unless the weather decides to stay warm. Catch you next time.

Sprint I.ve had the same trouble with the teaser baits may i suggest you try using a size larger swimbait on your center arm with or without a short leader in between the bait and the arm. the leader isnt ideal throwing into the wind but what it does is imitate a larger bait fish chasing a smaller bait ball and a predator fish will most usually hit the back bait that looks like it is chasing the bait ball.

[Sprint21fter]

Interesting, Sac River Jim may give it try.