Pepe Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 Thanks for the report. I am glad many of the good sticks on this lake do not act like everything they catch a fish on is a State secret. You certainly figured out a pattern and made it work for you. Congratulations! Sac River Jim 1
Sac River Jim Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 Think the swing head kind of took the spotlight from the jika. It still works. the swing jig is one of my favorite weapons i never tried the jika rig but i thought it would be good fishing standing timber and cedars.
dtrs5kprs Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 the swing jig is one of my favorite weapons i never tried the jika rig but i thought it would be good fishing standing timber and cedars. That is where I think it is best. Pole timber, big hardwoods, etc. Places where you can drop it straight down into the cover. Squirrel and Sac River Jim 2
magicwormman Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 Congrats on a job well done!!!!! It is extremely tough to put two real good days together on the Rock. It sounds like you had them figured out. Thanks for sharing a very good detailed report.
Macsimus Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 Congrats on the win! "There was a time that I didn't fish, but I cannot remember it."
Bill Babler Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 Just goes to show how this lake can be very hard to figure out. I fished the same water pretty much the same stuff, throwing the RC. I am very stubborn and we threw it all three days with very limited success. Caught 3 on it Friday, all solid keepers and 1 Saturday a 4 pounder. Threw it Sunday on the same water as the OP and zero. Total time with the RC was about 8 hrs. with 4 fish. All keeps, but that was it. We also saw two groups out of Big Creek Resort throwing it with success. I did have very good success on the same water when we would throw a McStick in Blue Bandit. 10 very solid keeps. Keeping it in the Spro Family. http://whiteriveroutfitters.com http://whiteriverlodgebb.com
Members basscatfan Posted March 30, 2015 Author Members Posted March 30, 2015 Wow. I guess that's what makes fishing such a rewarding challenge is figuring out the puzzle. What works for one guy might not work for another. I tried real hard to get on a jerk bait bite but I couldn't make it happen. Even with a detailed report it can be hard to catch another man's fish.
Members CadeWompus Posted March 30, 2015 Members Posted March 30, 2015 I also fished in the tournament this weekend with basscatfan. We were lucky enough to finish in 2nd place behind them. We fished in the Indians on Friday looking for fishable water that wasn't chocolate milk. Caught a couple solid 3lb largemouth and a 3lb smallmouth all on different baits...wart, swinghead, and spinnerbait. All were caught where the water transitioned from murky to clear. Then we went out on the main lake between Baxter and Big Creek and hit some grub spots. Immediately caught a keeper Kentucky on the grub. Went to another spot and I caught a 3.5lb largemouth on the grub. Hit some spots in Big Creek with the swing head and just caught shorts, but it was getting late, so we headed in. Decided to start tournament Sat on the main water since I had some good spots that we didn't hit Fri. Our thought was that with the cold night, the main lake fish may be less affected by the cold night than the fish in the shallower dingier water. Our plan was to fish some dingier water in the afternoon after it warmed assuming we had time. We hit a jerkbait spot that was a channel swing bank first but just shorts. Found a good area with a couple points between Baxter and the James that was holding fish. Caught our limit of 15inch spots and a 6lb largemouth all on the grub. Lost another good fish in a tree. It took us until afternoon to do it. We ran back towards Big Creek to his some of those main lake spots. The spot where I caught the bigger one yesterday on the grub by Big Creek was overtaken by the dingy water making its way downlake, so it wasn't fishable with the grub. We tried a couple other spots before heading in. Ended the day with 5 keepers that weighted 14.20lbs. Second day proved tougher with the grub. We switched to the spot where we caught the better fish on Sat and started throwing the jerkbait. Partner caught a solid smallmouth and then I hooked up with a 3.5 largemouth. We kept milking the spot all morning with various baits and ended up catching another largemouth and a 4lb smallmouth on the grub. That made 6 solid keepers off of a spot of about 40yds in two days that included a 6lb largemouth and 4lb smallmouth. Awesome spot! We couldnt get our 5th keeper there and the wind shifted off the spot, so we decided to end the day back in the Indians in the warming stained water. We hit several good looking areas but just shorts. So we came in with 4 keepers weighing about 12.5lbs giving us about 26.5 lbs total for 2 days. 2nd place out of 15 was a good finish for us, but basscatfan really humbled us. Good job to them for putting together two good bags that would do well in any of the tournaments on the lake this weekend. Our grub fish seemed to bite well in the clouds and low light conditions. Bite suffered in the afternoon sunny days. What happens to those fish? We tried adjusting by backing out, counting deeper, etc. Even fished on the bottom some with split shot and ned. Couldn't seem to get them to bite, but we know they were still there. Btw, almost all of our grub fish came with boat sitting in 30ft and 5-7count. At least a few scattered trees were critical. abkeenan and Sac River Jim 2
Jim Elam Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 Great report. Sounds like you had a good weekend. Jim Jim "The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock...If we are lucky we all have at least one."
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