March 26 bass report (I guess)

[Skeeter ZX190]

First of all I want to give a big shout out to Lifes2Short, Dutch, Bassfisher, Jmontgo, etc. for not catching all of the bass in Stockton and leaving me 2 to catch. It would be nice though if you could provide GPS coordinates for those 2 fish (should have been 3, I missed one that was a solid bite) because it would cut down on gas usage and time!  😀

What a difference a year makes.  On March 21, 2018 we caught like 49 bass with 15 being keepers.  Water temps a year ago were 44 to 45.  Light wind was out of the northwest.   Yesterday the water temps were 45 to 46 with light winds out of the northeast?  Seemed to vary depending on where you were at.  Water was very clear. I fished from the dam to close to State Park.  I hit many of the same spots as last year but couldn't find any fish, but many spots I sure was showing stuff on the graph. 

I got a total of 4 bites and landed 2 fish, a 14 7/8ths largemouth and a 14 inch smallmouth.  The largemouth came on a phantom green rock crawler and the smallmouth on the ned.  The other 2 bites were on the ned. 

It left me scratching my head wondering where are the fish?

[Lifes2Short]

 It’s interesting that you just posted this Skeeter, there is quite a difference this year to last year in my opinion also. I spent 10 hours on the lake yesterday with a friend of mine and another six hours today on the lake with the same friend.    Yesterday we fished between Ruark Campground East and Birch Branch. It took us three hours to get our first bite and we ended up catching five out of the same 100 yard area and then it took us another three hours to catch another eight off a 100 yard stretch of bank, including this nice walleye. Today we fished out of Old State Park in the Hawker area and it took us three hours to get our first bite and we ended up catching maybe eight on another 100 yard stretch of bank on jerk baits. No random bites to speak of anywhere else. So over 16 hours of fishing we found three small areas of fish that would bite.  After you find a few fish in an area hitting on a bait consistently you think that maybe you can put a pattern together, there’s a lot of people better than me who fish and maybe could figure out that pattern but I sure couldn’t.   But I don’t feel too bad because other fisherman I’ve talked to in the last few days have either been skunked or only put one or two in the boat. Better times ahead, I’m sure of it!!

Tight Lines......I hope!  😁😁

P.S.  Message me and I’ll give you those GPS #’s!!!

[Dutch]

Hey bud I left them all for you.  It has been so bad for me this winter that I have been going to the Rock.  At least down there we have been able to catch a few fish.  My next trip will be to Stockton.  I want to chase a few whites.