Joe Bald to Aunts 6-29

[htower25]

Put in at 3:45 or so and there was awful boat traffic. Fished one of my more likeable spots with only one smallie then decided to quite fighting the ski boats and moved up towards aunts. On my way, I saw a chunk rock bank that I had never fished and decided to give it a try because there was scattered shade on it and the wind was blocked enough to keep my line from bowing 4 feet. First shady spot I threw into I pulled a pound and a half spot out. Unhooked him, trolled back and made the same cast. Bam another one. Sat on the same spot and caught 7 more bass within a 30 yd section. Couldn't buy a bite anywhere else on the same bank. They slowed down so I decided to find another bank like it. Ran up to aunts and past hitting everything that looked similar with no love, so I went back and caught 6 more, still in that 30 yd section. Dont know what it was about it but it held fish. Biggest was a 2 and a half pound smallie and caught some of each breed.

[Quillback]

Good deal - welcome to the forum!

[htower25]

Thanks!

[Champ188]

Nice report. Fish have been balled up like that all year and back even into last fall. You can fish half the day on good spots and not get bit and then find one little stretch like you did and just hammer 'em. Chances are you can go back there and do it again several times.

I have a spot like that up in the White that I've been catching them on since before the spawn. So far I've been lucky enough that Quillback hasn't seen me on it or it would be picked clean by now.

And yes, welcome to the gang.

[Flysmallie]

Sometimes you find one of those sweet spots and they just produce like that year after year. I've found several spots like that on Pomme and they always produced fish. Maybe not always a fish that you wanted to weigh but something was always home. One of these spots was very small. Just the tip of a secondary point. It always has at least one keeper on it if you needed it. But it wouldn't produce much more than that.

I found a little spot while fishing a flat one day. It was a small tournament and we were doing pretty good throwing small crankbaits on that flat between where the creek channel turned out and an old road bed. Probably a hundred yard stretch of 2 ft water. As the bite slowed we wandered a little past the road bed. it got shallower at first and then all of a sudden dropped to 15 ft. It was like a little old pond right up against a little bluff. Maybe 20 yards across. We already had a small limit but that spot on that day put away any one else's chances of beating us. It doesn't always hold fish but it's crazy good when it does. And nobody ever goes down that bank because it's just an old shallow blank flat.

Sometimes I miss those days in my early twenties thinking I ruled the lake. Don't wanna go back though, just glad I survived it the first time.

[dtrs5kprs]

Sometimes I miss those days in my early twenties thinking I ruled the lake. Don't wanna go back though, just glad I survived it the first time.

No doubt about that.