12/7/15 Monday report

[Fish24/7]

WT 56-58.6

pontiac/spring creek areas

fairly clear

 WOW ,what a fog bank this morning! Probably the thickest fog I've seen on Bull this year. Hung around and drank some coffee at the launch for 2 hours until almost 10:30 before the fog lifted. I heard a few boats running out there in that dense fog while I was waiting. I thinks that's crazy! So, with a good coffee buzz going I launched and first  tried some cove banks and secondary points nearby with a tube, ned rig , and jig in 5-25fow  looking for bass. Nothing going there in the cove except a bunch of warmouth perch on the Ned.. Moved out of the coves closer to channels and that's where I stayed the rest of the day, and so did the 4 Loons fishing in the same area. The bite was slow for me, but the weather was perfect for what I wanted to try. 

  I followed the schools around with the electronics as they moved, and boy where they on the go.  Used various spoons. The spoon would either get bit by a keeper on the first drop or they ALL would swim away I'd have to chase them down again. I covered acres of water trying to keep up with these schools of bass. Found myself going in circles along with the schools of bass. Almost like they were swimming  laps around the lake,lol. Funny thing is I never saw 1 ball of shad, and none of the bass I caught spit up any shad.  They were all legal fish though, smallies and spots. Just keepers, no big one's . Didn't catch any largemouth , or any short bass. Bite got really tough around 3pm so I quit around 3:30ish. Wound up with 12 keepers, 6 smallies, 6 spots in 5hrs of fishing.. All released.

here's  what I found ....ALL of the bass bites came in 35-45fow. on or near bottom. They were holding near the bottom, and adjacent to the channel early in the day. By 3pm they had moved even deeper to 70+ fow ,and were now suspending over/in the  channel at the 35-50 ft zone, and wouldn't bite anything I had with me. I think the best bite was early because of the high sky and no wind, and I had just missed the peak feeding time. This screen shot of a school of bass was taken earlier in the day around noon. This pretty 15" golden sm bass came from that school on a spoon.

 

 

[alltelracer]

Thanks for the report. Not bad for missing the morning rush.

[Fish24/7]

1 hour ago, alltelracer said:

Thanks for the report. Not bad for missing the morning rush.

the wind has kept me  off the lake today, my small boat can't do it

might have to beat the bank on foot if I go