Brutal Day

[Sac River Jim]

fished a derby at the dam today. water temp 36 to 39 throwed an arig, jerk bait, wart, rock crawler and a tube to no avail. if i'd had crappie gear in the boat i'd switched to them. we marked crappie everywhere and see two fellas fish off a short bluff on the pomme side with two nice messes of slabs. every place we stopped there were dead/dying shad. the wind got up so much we throwed in the towel and 2:15 loaded up and came home. several had the same idea we did and no one seemed to be able to get on fish, seen quite a bit of ice back in the coves too.

[Lifes2Short]

1. We also fished the tourney, only caught one dink. There were only 15 or so trailers at the ramp when we left @ 3:00, as of that time not one person had weighed fish yet. Would be interesting to know how many #s won it. VERY tough day!

[smbasser]

18.24 ended up winning it with 14+ taking second. Only 6 of the boats weighed in fish. I had the 5 fish limit for 18.24. We fished hard all day and only ended up with 6 bites, granted they were the right ones

[smbasser]

they paid 7 places but only 6 teams weighed in. 6th, 5th, and 4th all had 1 fish

[Ham]

I will not fish for bass in areas where I can see a widespread shad die off. I head elsewhere. Generally, I had for shallower more off color water. Maybe, that's just me.

[Flysmallie]

Nice job smbasser. That's a good sack on Pomme.

[smbasser]

Thanks. All our fish came around the dying shad. I don't think there was many places where they weren't dying

[DChance]

Congrats. Care to give a report?

[Flysmallie]

Congrats. Care to give a report?

I think he just did. At least all he's going to tell us and I can't blame him.

[smbasser]

All of my fish came on an a-rig. Graphed single bass under balls of shad and had to drag the bottom to get bit. They did not want to chase at all. Caught no short fish. Smallest was 3# and biggest was 4.62. If you find fish right now, don't leave. Every fish came in a 30 yard stretch I fished all tournament