Report 2/26 & 2/28 (Tournament)

[Jmontgo1246]

Went down Friday and launched out of Orleans Trail around 7:30am.  Fished the Little Sac arm up to High Point.  Started on mainlake bluff points and brush piles with jerkbait and jig...just hauled water.  Ran up past the bridge and fished a few channel swing banks in the stained water...no luck.  Biggest thing was the water temps had dropped from last sunday down to 40-42 degrees.  Finally around 1p caught first keeper on the mainlake next to a brushpile in 20 fow.  Decided to run back into Price and fished some points with standing timber and immediately caught a keeper on a jerkbait and one on a wiggle wart...both on points.  Left there and ran over to mile long bridge for a little bit with no luck on a jerkbait or jig.  Finished the day in back of Orleans trail around 5:30.  Was throwing a crankbait and caught a short....buddy with me was starting to put stuff away to leave and I caught another.  So he picked up a jerkbait and we caught another 7-8 fish on a point in the back of the creek.  There was a small school of fish stacked in there as we made the same cast and the fish would instantly smash the jerkbait.  Loaded up at dark.

Sunday 2/28 - Anglers in Action tourney

Started back in Price Branch fishing same points we caught them on Friday...fished points for the first couple hours until the sun got up and started warming things up.  No action on cranks, jerkbait, or jig.  Around 9:30 we moved to the back of Price to see if the water had warmed up any from Friday and it was still just 44-45 degrees.  Started on a point that had a nice chunk bank and a drop off and let the wind push us down the bank.  There was a little mudline from the wind so we tried to stay parallel to the bank and were slow rolling crankbaits.  Within a few minutes we had our first keeper on a bank leading to the next little point.  Once we got to the point it shallowed up a little bit but it had a small drop from 3 to 6 feet.  First cast to the point and another keeper was in the boat...we backed of the drop and caught a few more fish with two being keepers.  All the fish hit right on the drop as soon as your crankbait came over the edge.  So we went up and down that bank for a couple hours and put another good keeper in the boat.  Went to the very back and caught another short fish on a crankbait.  Then we ran over to the other side of the creek and fished a small cut and culled 2 more times with a couple solid keepers.  All fish were on a crankbait fished slow throwing it up on the bank and coming over any little ledge/drop off.  Ended up with 16.72 lbs and a nice 6.23 big fish...ended up in 2nd Place.  1st place had a solid bag of 3-4 lbers for 18 lbs.  Despite the wind the fish are wanting to move up and they were chocking the crankbait...water temp at the end of the day was 49 deg in the back of the creek.

 

[blacknoseddace]

Thanks for the report. 

[STLbassbuster]

Nice fish & thanks for the report.

[Ketchup]

Heck of a way to stay with it guys, and figure things out. 

[dprice]

Very nice    Wished I had gone 

I bet the wind was  furious down that creek !

[Skeeter ZX190]

Dang that's a nice sack.  So there are still some bass in Stockton.   I was beginning to wonder after my last couple of trips.