Saturday Morning Bassing 9-9-17

[redshad]

My wife and I ran up for a few hours Saturday morning.  We launched at Cedar Ridge around 6:30 and fished until noon.  We ended up catching 14 with 4 keepers.  The bite was pretty good for the first few hours and slowed down around 9:30 to 10.  There was no wind the lake was slick and after 10:00 a boat ride felt pretty good to get a little breeze.  I started by throwing a whopper ploper with only had one short I was also throwing a crankbait (RC55)and had couple Stockton specials (13-14 inchers) on the crank.  Momma caught a nice keeper on her menace so I pick up the 10" worm and joined her throwing plastics.  On my 2nd or 3rd cast I caught a nice 3 pounder we proceeded to catch several more on the plastics mostly shorts with a keeper here and there.  I seemed like about 10:00 the bite really slowed we fished a couple spots that usually produce some decent fish but we only managed a few dinks.  The lack of wind wasn't helping.  Most of our fish came fish channel swing banks plastics in 8-12 ft range.  One thing that I did notice that most of the fish we caught were healthy and had some belly to them.  The 3 pounder was a nice fat fish and several of the shorts had a nice belly on them.  It nice to see some fatter bass most of the ones I have been catching this summer have been long and skinny.  Maybe they are starting to put on the fall feed bags.  A group of us will be camping at Cedar Ridge at the end of the month hopefully the bite will be on by then. 

[blacknoseddace]

Great report! I can really appreciate some healthy fat bass. Very ecouraging for things to come. Thank you!

[bassfisher]

I yes it's good in the morning but not that late in the evening or the afternoon I was catching catfish on a war eagle in the evening yesterday up by High Point