Indian Creek, March 13

[Quillback]

Yesterday was a cold morning, so I fished banker's hours, 9:30 to 4:30.  Sunny day with a fairly strong breeze kicking up early in the afternoon.  Enough wind that fishing a Ned rig deep became a little bit of a problem on the exposed banks.  

All of the fish I caught came on the Ned, PB&J on a 1/8 head.  Dragged it slowly on the bottom, maintaining bottom contact as much as possible.  Best depth range for fish was 10 -20 FOW.  The bass are on some banks, but not on others, it's hard to graph them as they are locked on the bottom and don't show up well - you just have to pick a likely bank and try it out, if you catch one you'll want to fish that stretch of water hard as there likely more than one there.   The smallies are liking the sunny banks with chunky rock and/or ledge rock.

I caught a dozen bass, 10 of them being smallies, 4 of the smallies were in the 15-16" range.  Caught a 16" spot and a keeper sized walleye.

Water is stained green up the Indian Creek arm, and clearer as you approach the dam.  WT 47-49.

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[Stump bumper]

You have to love that Ned, put my drop shot worms out of business. Great photos Quill, thanks.

[Johnsfolly]

5 hours ago, Quillback said:

Yesterday was a cold morning, so I fished banker's hours, 9:30 to 4:30.  Sunny day with a fairly strong breeze kicking up early in the afternoon.  Enough wind that fishing a Ned rig deep became a little bit of a problem on the exposed banks.  

All of the fish I caught came on the Ned, PB&J on a 1/8 head.  Dragged it slowly on the bottom, maintaining bottom contact as much as possible.  Best depth range for fish was 10 -20 FOW.  The bass are on some banks, but not on others, it's hard to graph them as they are locked on the bottom and don't show up well - you just have to pick a likely bank and try it out, if you catch one you'll want to fish that stretch of water hard as there likely more than one there.   The smallies are liking the sunny banks with chunky rock and/or ledge rock.

I caught a dozen bass, 10 of them being smallies, 4 of the smallies were in the 15-16" range.  Caught a 16" spot and a keeper sized walleye.

Water is stained green up the Indian Creek arm, and clearer as you approach the dam.  WT 47-49.

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I know that you are trolling us by putting a PBJ Ned rig in their mouths! Nobody catches fish on that color. We're on to you buddy !

Congrats on a great bunch of fish on whatever bait you were actually using!

[chi0082]

Thanks for the report!