2-13-16 Report

[Champ188]

Donna and I splashed the Ranger at SK bridge at a bright-and-early 11 a.m. Went 2-3 hours without a nibble, then came across a pretty good group of fish and caught seven, including four keepers, in less than an hour.

When these petered out, we went off to try and duplicate it in very similar locations but got no love. Such is winter fishing. It can often be a lot more about a specific location than a pattern.

Stopped by our honey hole on the way back in about 4:00 and managed one more keeper to give us a five-fish limit for about 13 pounds. Stick bait, jig and Rock Crawler did the work.

Speaking only for myself, my concerns last year about our largemouth population have been resolved over the past 2-3 weeks. Over the past 5-6 trips, I've had some of the best LM fishing I've seen in quite a while on this lake. Lots of quality 2.5 to 4-pound fish and they are just healthy as horses. Even the males have fat guts from feeding up for the upcoming spawn.

We are truly blessed to have this wonderful fishery at our disposal.

[denjac]

Way to stick to it and put together a limit. Nice to see a non ned report. 

[Quillback]

Sweet!  Good to see those quality LM's.

[Ham]

2 hours ago, denjac said:

. Nice to see a non ned report.

Haters gonna hate

[176champion]

Nice Champ!! You must of been fishing one of my honey holes the first couple hours....lmao

[Donna G]

It was a good day, indeed.  I caught the skunk-buster.  Love my UA Infrared ColdGear base layer and balaclava.  Makes for a comfortable run

[176champion]

You wont need all that clothing by end of week..suppose to be 70 degrees....and i still dont have my boat back together and i have to actually work this week...lol

[Donna G]

1 minute ago, 176champion said:

You wont need all that clothing by end of week..suppose to be 70 degrees....and i still dont have my boat back together and i have to actually work this week...lol

Bring it.  Ready for some warmer water and less finicky fish...I hope.  We're in a golf tournament Saturday (Sweetheart Invitational postponed from yesterday), but I'm sure we're fishing Sunday.  Monday-Friday is work, work, work. 

[Bill Babler]

You all are a source of inspiration.  I guided a full day yesterday and thought I was going to die.  Clients rod guides were still freezing at 12 PM.  Had to put the fly rods down as the line kept freezing on the back cast.  It was like they were trying to throw a frozen rope.

I guess they were.

[dtrs5kprs]

Frozen fly line does not sound a bit fun. Can't be good on the rods either.