Dam Area 2/13 2/14

[Alex Heitman]

Sorry for the late report but I've been busy the last few days. Fished the dam area on Friday and Saturday and had two awesome days. On Friday I pulled up to a secondary point to start out and caught 3 nice fat keeper K's on 3 consecutive cast. After that the location was done.

Moved to a main lake point and caught this nice fat smallmouth. Biggest one I have caught in while. Its belly was about to pop and it had some shoulders

Few cast later I caught this nice LM. I was casting the jerkbait in about 5 ft and getting it down deep right on the bottom back to the boat. Some strikes were shallow others were out deeper up to 20 ft.

Moved down to a secondary point with a brushpile I located and caught a big LM and 3 other nice ones from the location. Those were in 20 ft around the pile. Got the jerkbait down there on a long cast and 10 sec pauses.

It was a great day. Probably had a little of 20 lbs. All were caught on jerkbait some shallow and others out on the bottom by cover or structure.

Saturday the fish were sit up different. I couldn't really get bit in those type of locations and had to fish the windy points. I was scratching my head at first but moved up shallow and started to catch them. Once that wind got kicked up it moved the fish really shallow and stacked them up in certain areas. I caught a bass on 7 consecutive casts on one spot and they were all in less than 5 ft of water ganged up.

Great weekend got to mess around with the go pro and try and figure out some things on it which is very difficult at first haha. Hopefully it will warm up soon so we can all get back out there.

[abkeenan]

Very VERY nice Alex. Not so nice on blocking out background landmarks...lol.

[Champ188]

What did I do Friday and Saturday? Played golf. I'm an idiot.

Great job getting on some quality fish and thanks for the report. Mind sharing the water temp? --- and yeah, it's gonna drop this week for sure.

[abkeenan]

McStick in Norman Flake or Ghost Norman Flake? Forgot to photoshop that out! Rookie move! lol.

[Alex Heitman]

Champ the water temp was 43-44 and got up to 45 on Saturday.

abekeenan I had too. Those spots would stick out like a sore thumb and they have been holding bigger fish lol. And you are right ghost Norman flake. I was using a pointer earlier that seemed to work better but lost it in the brush pile. I used a megabass on Saturday since they were shallower.

[abkeenan]

Champ the water temp was 43-44 and got up to 45 on Saturday.

abekeenan I had too. Those spots would stick out like a sore thumb and they have been holding bigger fish lol. And you are right ghost Norman flake. I was using a pointer earlier that seemed to work better but lost it in the brush pile. I used a megabass on Saturday since they were shallower.

I'm just giving you a hard time. Giving area, depth, presentation and bait is PLENTY to share with the board here. Showing pinpoint locations with pictures is hotspot suicide. Don't blame you one bit. That being said can I have the negatives of those pics? Lol. Again nice report. You're a dam area deep water rat like myself we need to meet up some time.

-Brett

[Bill Babler]

Very nice post and a great day especially in that war zone area.

Those are very nice pic's are they from the GoPro?

[Champ188]

Don't trust that abk, Alex. Don't trust him one dang bit. He'll tell you anything you want to hear but he's only after your fishin' holes.

[abkeenan]

Don't trust that abk, Alex. Don't trust him one dang bit. He'll tell you anything you want to hear but he's only after your fishin' holes.

And don't ever forget it Champ. Ever.

[Quillback]

Good deal Alex, those are some really nice fish!