10-17-15 Report

[M_Taylor]

Put in at Rocky Branch and didn't fish far from ramp. 

Cloudy and cool all day. Water temps around 70-72. 

I fished in creek arms mainly. Had a good day but no giants. Half my fish were on topwater and the other half were from Spinnerbait and lipless crankbaits. 

My bite slowed around 10ish. I couldn't get anything along bluffs. Had to be chunk rock and lay downs. 

 

[Quillback]

Good deal, nice to see a couple of healthy looking bass.

[Dan the fisherman]

Nice report.  I launched out of RB also and ran into another OAF member.  I got to meet stump bumper (John).  It's cool to meet people from the forum. N e ways,  I was striper fishing though.  I zeroed on striper.  I'm going to give it another week before trying again   Taylor, thanks for the report. I'm going to get back to bass fishing and ur report is  encouraging    

 

[Stump bumper]

Hey Dan, nice to meet you also. I was on the lake from about 12:30 -4:30 started throwing spinnerbaits since the wind was blowing so hard then went to the kitchen sink. I got some small smallmouth and spots around trees on a drop shot. 

I fished point 5 down into Rambo and did a lot of running around RB and did not see the shad that I have seen south of point 10. The small fish I caught were not as fat as the ones south either. I don't know what it is like north of point 5, but has anyone else noticed the difference? It was cloudy and water was between 68-72 I should have been able to find more fish, I couldn't even find schools on my depth finder and shad were not that thick anywhere I looked, small bait balls here and there.

 I saw several platoon boats checking deep water then speeding away, look like they were searching and not finding also.  

 

 

[Dan the fisherman]

  I notice that as well stump.  I ran as far as starkys.  I found a few small klumps of bait.   I idled a lot yesterday and never found a big school of bait.  There may be some bait  some where up there but I couldn't find it...  There's bait everywhere below point 10 like u stated stump but I can't locate striper down there.  Btw I did mark some large fish by some humps in the RB area yesterday but could get them to bite.  Funny below point ten I can find the bait but no striper, above point 10 no bait but marking big fish without getting bite.  Oh well. I'll keep at it till I'm get on them. 

[Champ188]

There's bait where the stripers aren't and no bait where the stripers are. A connection perhaps?

[Dan the fisherman]

Lol yup. Guess that why I couldn't get them to bite, they're all full. Hah

[fisherofmen11]

Good stuff guys. 

[jerry241]

Dan your report makes me feel a little better about my outing earlier this week..... Not that I wish bad luck on others I'm just glad I'm not the only one who couldn't get on them... Ha

just a side note gentlemen I saw the 1st snow of the season today up high in West Virginia  hope we are not going straight to winter