Long Creek Area 9-10-15

[crazy4fishin]

I decided to take a break from trout fishing - or they decided to take a break from me.....either way I went out on the Rock from 8 this morning until around 3 p.m. Friends it was a beautiful but HOT day....little to no breeze....at one point I was sweating through my skivies! 

It was a tough one - at least for me...I could not get a jig bite fishing main and secondary points.....I even tried my new War Eagle spinner bait to no avail. That bait was so disgusted with my performance that it flew right off my line at one point never to be seen again!! So I tied another one on and it didn't work any better but it did stick with me the rest of the day.

I worked the area by the State Park and back in the cove at first - I noticed them breaking the surface and threw a spook at first and could only get a few followers. I then tied on a XPS top water something and a lot of chasers but no takers. Holy Smokes there is a ton of bait fish moving around in the coves.....when that turns on katy bar the door! 

I then moved to the cove to the west of Big Cedar and started using the Ned - I did get some love there as I ended up with 8 in that area - nothing big...1-2 lbs at best. And it was a weird bite - for most of them I actually thought I was starting to get hung up until it really started to pull back. 

The Bass in the second picture is fairly good size - I think it was just the way that I was holding it when I took the pic that makes it look small.....that is what she said....sorry I couldn't help myself. 

Around 2:30 all of the toys started to come out - so I got out. 

C4F

[Champ188]

Thanks for the report. Gonna take a couple of weeks of cooler weather for things to get going good.

[Bill Babler]

Fished the same area yesterday and only had 9.  Every fish came on the Dixie Jet.  2 solid keeps and about 1/2 a dozen more jumped and spit it right back at us.

There were guides fishing crawlers out of big Cedar in the area and they were struggling to get a bite on live bait.  It  was really hard.

[crazy4fishin]

Bill...I almost tied one on just to try it....frankly the only thing that stopped me was the Ned producing...now I wish I did to see if I could get the weight up....best of luck if you go out today

c4f

[Bill Babler]

I'm in from my first trip today.  We had a very good day on a Wart.  Cow Creek to the Dam.  Fished with Buster and Beck on a deal for the Chamber. We had 25 today with 3 keeps, one around 4 pounds and Beck had the same with 5 keeps with one around 4.  Buster also caught them and I believe he said he also had one really big SM.   Beck's clients caught all of their fish on a Rock Crawler, mine all came on a Wart.  I didn't have the RC box, and Buster caught all his on a Tube.

Probably close to 75 fish to the 3 guide boats today and everyone was a Small Jaw.  Could not get bit on a point, all our fish as well as Beck's came on mix chunk rock and gravel side pockets and ledge.  Had the boat in 20' running about a 45 degree cast.  Most fish came in the 10' range.

Water was 81.9 visibility 3' and a really nice chop.

Headed for Taney for an afternoon trout deal.

Good Luck

 

 

[m&m]

Bill, thanks for the report. Good to know they are not only on points. 

Mike