Mill Creek 7/19

[Royal Blue]

Put in at Mill Creek and were headed out just before 6:00am.  Hit our first spot and found a few right away up in the brush.  I was committed to trying to catch a fish on my big SPRO Rat, so I wasn't sure what to expect.  The rat got absolutely crushed on my 7th or 8th cast and I boated one that went 5.3.  We stayed on that bank and caught another one that was just over 4 on a chatterbait.  Spent the morning bouncing from spot to spot and I had a tough time putting the rat down until it got really hot out.  No other takers on it, but I'm a believer now.  Every other fish that we caught was on a jig.  Broke off a keeper smallie at the boat due to a bad knot, and broke off 3 jigs on hook-sets.  Time for some new line on my jig rod!  The key on the jib bite was to throw it up right on the bluff banks with a ledge.  They would hit it right as you pulled it off of the ledge.  Tried throwing a 6XD and a big worm with zero takers.  

It was a great day and we had a total of 17 between the two of us with 3 over 4lbs and a total of 9 keepers.  Yesterday's bag would've won any derby that I've heard about on TR for the last several weeks.  Too bad there weren't any random Wednesday tourneys!  We had just over 17lbs.  Water temp was 91 degrees when we put it on the trailer at noon, and the wake boats were insane for a Wednesday.  

[big c]

Very good! Thanks for the report

[jasonqrich]

that rat is crazy!  i like the color combo.  good day for sure. 

[m&m]

RB, nice day for sure. Gotta love that topwater bite. Thanks for the information  

Mike

[merc1997 Bo]

it is crazy that this time of the year the quality bites are very shallow still, but i am seeing signs of that changing, but not too much of a depth change.  those are some really nice bass.

bo

[merc1997 Bo]

hope champ sees this post.  he had better be getting out while they are still shallow.

bo

[Royal Blue]

1 hour ago, merc1997 said:

hope champ sees this post.  he had better be getting out while they are still shallow.

bo

I thought of him yesterday.  I threw a blade quite a bit and had one really good bite, but had forgotten to put a trailer hook on there.  I lost 3 of your jigs yesterday too.  I need to stock up, but they were definitely biting them.

[Champ188]

My boat is cleaned up/reorganized and the motor needs a good run. Been 5-6 weeks since it's been in the water. Might go tomorrow (Friday). 

[merc1997 Bo]

31 minutes ago, Champ188 said:

My boat is cleaned up/reorganized and the motor needs a good run. Been 5-6 weeks since it's been in the water. Might go tomorrow (Friday). 

too bad you cleaned it up.  you can not catch bass in a clean boat.

bo

[Champ188]

Probably right, Bo. May have to drag it down a gravel road on the way to the lake. 😀