Indian Creek, January 23 and 24

[Quillback]

Fished with my buddy Mike Tuesday afternoon and most of the day Wednesday in the Indian creek area.  For the most part, we fished Ned rigs, very slowly with most of the fish we caught coming in 10-20 FOW.  They have been scattered, one here and there, usually around steep rocky banks with or without timber.  The bites are very, very sluggish, you'll feel that rod tip get a bit heavy with a bit of a rubbery feel, and when you feel that, it's time to set that hook.  

We boated 10 Tuesday afternoon and 15 Wednesday.  No bigguns, but some keepers, a couple of nice 2-2.5 lb. spots in the mix, but mostly smallmouth.  Only one largemouth, Kind of mystified as to where the LM's are hanging out.  

Haven't seen much striper activity, had a school pass under the boat once, then they were gone.  Saw some shad balls, but not many, didn't see any dying shad or dead shad.  Water temps were 45-47.

Very few fishermen out on that part of the lake, saw 2 other boats Tuesday, and never saw another boat yesterday.  

A couple of pics:

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[Bass_assassin]

Good job quill.Have a tournament on Saturday out of prairie creek.Any suggestions?Also nice looking smallmouth.

 

[Johnsfolly]

QB - congrats on a decent couple of days of fishing! Great info and photos. Maybe it will help me if I ever get down that way !

[Quillback]

16 minutes ago, Johnsfolly said:

QB - congrats on a decent couple of days of fishing! Great info and photos. Maybe it will help me if I ever get down that way !

Hey if you ever get down here, let me know and we'll go out and try and hook some fish.

[Quillback]

23 minutes ago, Bass_assassin said:

Good job quill.Have a tournament on Saturday out of prairie creek.Any suggestions?Also nice looking smallmouth.

 

I'm not a great tourney advice source, I'm more of a fun fisher, fishing for bites rather than the 5 big bites you need for a tourney.  I'm reasonably confident you can catch fish on the Ned rig, might get a limit, might get a biggun, but I don't know if it's a good strategy to get the kind of bag you need for any good sized tourney with a good field fishing it.   

[176champion]

Nice Quill!!

[Sore Thumbs]

On 1/25/2018 at 11:02 AM, Bass_assassin said:

Good job quill.Have a tournament on Saturday out of prairie creek.Any suggestions?Also nice looking smallmouth.

 

I caught them the same way 2 weeks ago. Suspended fish are hard to find right now. I suggest finesse on the bottom and I’d be prepared for suspending fish. Like and A rig or jerkbait. Wouldn’t be scared to try a crank with the sunny day.