Thought it would be better, anyone do any good? 10-21

[nhornback]

Launched at 7am saturday hunting for bass and looking forward to clouds and wind for a change.  Seems every chance i have to go lately it has been blue and slick. 

Had a good game plan (i thought) to fish south facing main lake channel swing points and inside those points plus a couple secondary swings. Two of my first three spots i had mentally circled had boats on them early so my plan was obviously in a lot of people's minds as well.

Hit those areas with the tackle box: multitude of topswaters, spinnerbaits, shad pattern cranks, chatterbaits, jerks and soft plastics when possible.  

Ended up with about 16 fish when we got off the water by 1, but that number was saved when we gave up fighting the wind and tucked away inside a main lake point and plucked 6 or 7 within 30 minutes, mostly dinks.  

Didnt measure, but none any bigger than just barely keeper size. Caught them both on main lake and secondary but only 1 or 2 per spot.

More sun than i expected, and i wonder if i should have waited and launched at noon and fished til dusk, maybe barometer drop had more effect late PM.

Anyone else do any better than us?

Sincerely,

Confused...

 

[dan hufferd]

I thought the same, but not very productive. We find some small bass and walleye 21 feet deep or so on north facing points near main channel. Metallic blue spoon was the ticket, but still nothing to brag about. I did hook something that stayed down but came unbuttoned before I could do much, I had switched to a small 1/4 oz spoon, I think the hook was too small.

For whatever reason many species were holding on those breaks?

We fished from 11am until about 5pm. What little action we had was about 1 or 2pm. We were on the north end.   

[bassfisher]

I did good today bite was in pockets in 10 ft kinda windy all fish I caught were 15 in or better turkey creek arm also saw some guys pulling crappie off the point at cedar ridge heading towards the bridge piers

[nhornback]

Bassfisher, my post was about Saturday, but congrats on your success.

I fished from mutton south into Sons and on down past Birch branch.  I seem to be able to drum up bites on main lake swings/points regardless, but i think there are fish on those spots year round, right? 

I just cant find them very well as they transition (if thats what theyre doing now) and definitely not finding any fish much bigger than 2lbs regardless of where i catch em.

A few pics from the outing, nothing special though

Nick

[bassfisher]

Fish back in the creek arms

[nhornback]

Bassfisher,

When you run into creeks, do you follow that creek channel as starting points for 2nd points, pockets etc? Or does that not come into play as much for you? 

Trying to soak up all i can. Thanks for input

Nick

[bassfisher]

I have been targeting the pockets seems the bigger fish are there. 

[redshad]

Nick, I have about the same story as you for Saturday morning.  We launched at Cedar Ridge around 7 and I headed for the wind blown banks looking for some active fish.  We fished several windy banks in different areas, deep channel banks, back in the pockets, first deep bank in the pockets and didn't have much to much to show for it.  I couldn't get anything love for the SB, caught a 3 on a square bill one keeper, one dink on a wart and my best luck on a 1/2 oz redeye shad.  I caught 5 bass total with one keeper a 17" eye and 14" crappie.  No real pattern to the fish just one scattered here and there.  About 10:30 the wind was really getting up I headed to a blocked channel bank and we caught a few on a brush hog I think around 9-10 total with 2 more keepers.  All the keeper fish were the 15-16 inch range nothing very big.  The water temp is still a little to warm to have them on the banks and chasing that will come soon.  I have only been able to get bites on plastics lately and they are scattered.  When you catch one work the area good there are usually more there.  You can fish for a while with out a bite and then catch 5-6 in 10 cast.  Its about time for all you guys to go deer hunting and leave the fishing to me...