Jan 25 & 26 Amazing Winter Fishing

[David Goddard]

@Justin92297 and I left Columbia around 3:30 a.m. and got on the water at like 7:30 on Saturday the 25th. I fished a 2.8 keitech on a 1/4th oz head all day through trees. Justin threw the same small swimbait and an a-rig. We caught over 40 keepers and probably 55ish bass and fished all day. Most fish were 20-40 feet deep. The key was to mark bait and then count the swimbait down to that depth and just reel it back in very slow. Creeks without bait didn't have any fish in them that we could catch and most of the bait seemed to be in the middle of the creeks. Had 16.60 lbs for our best 5.

 

Sunday we did the same thing. Drive till you find bait and catch them. It was that simple. Had 31 keepers and probably 45ish fish. Lots of boats out on Sunday. Didn't see too many people catching though. Fish are so fat right now. When you reel them up they are spewing up shad like crazy. Really hoping to be back down soon. Anyone know what those smallmouth are doing? We didn't catch a single one.

[Jerry Rapp]

pretty fish

[dwiebenga]

Well done gentlemen!

[Quillback]

Very nice!  Wish I would've seen this before I went out today, LOL.  Should've thrown a Keitech...

[*T*]

Good info!  Will try that approach next week. Thanks!

[Bill Babler]

Super Job.  I fished from 7 to noon today without a single bite, KC area.  Bait everywhere but nothing stroking them.  Fished the Keitech and the rig, along with looking for deep fish and just could not get bit.

Surface temps at KC this morning were 45.6, the coolest I have seen.  Fog was a total mess, but then blue bird and flat water after it lifted.  At take out it had warmed to 46 degree.  Still very clear at KC.

The guts I was catching them on in KC looked like a pool table top.  I fished from Mill Creek to Spring Branch.  Main lake there were billions of shad in the 60 ft. range but not a single fish on them.  Deep trees had nothing in the tops for me.  It was really hard.  There were two guys pulling out at Mill at noon when I hit the trailer and both said they blanked.  One guy said he thought he might have had a bite on an A-rig but it also could have been a tree.

Sunday it seemed like some people caught them in the stained water on a wart,some big fish pictures coming in.

[Bill Babler]

Also heard there were a couple of trips out of Big Cedar yesterday and they just hammered them in the deep creek channels from Indian Point to Long Creek.  There was also a RK Crawler bite in the muddy water in long creek even on flat water that lasted most of the day.

I just turned the wrong way and could not get if figured out, it was all on me.  That's the beauty of the Rock, they  are always biting somewhere.

Good Luck