The weather was so nice, I had to go again..

[Quillback]

Launched out of Big M at daylight, ran a couple of miles to yesterday's hot spot.  It was pretty good there for about a half hour, got a couple of keepers on a jerk bait - they were over open water that was 20-30 feet deep, I assume chasing scattered shad.  After that it got downright tough.  No wind all morning, bright blue skies, very few shad were on top.

So I ended up bouncing around, hitting points, a couple of coves and some steep banks and picked up one or two here and there on the Ned.  Only got one more keeper and ended the day with 15 bass, three of them keepers, and one short walleye.

Lost a Jackall Rerange, got a bite when I paused it, set the hook and the line broke about 3 feet above the reel, so if you catch a bass with a Rerange in it's mouth with about 30 feet of InvisX attached, well you know where it came from.

[Toby Estes]

Congrats on some nice fish. Now I know why I can’t catch anything on the weekend with a jerkbait around big m. 

[willyfish]

Nice job Quill. I always like to hear how ya do. That nice weather, as you very well know, usually equals tough fishing. I love when they are on the stickbaits.

[Quillback]

14 hours ago, Toby Estes said:

Congrats on some nice fish. Now I know why I can’t catch anything on the weekend with a jerkbait around big m. 

Well it's just not me out there, a lot of boats out there yesterday.  Even on my way home saw several rigs heading either towards TR or Beaver.  The fish are seeing a lot of baits.

[Dutch]

There were a lot more boats down lake from Cape Fair Thursday than there were up the James on Wednesday.  I don’t know how you do it.   I couldn’t get any love on a jerk yesterday.  In fact I never got a bite less than 25’ deep.

[Toby Estes]

I was just trying to give you a hard time. I figured with the weather this week there would be more people out. The last couple Saturday’s we haven’t seen too many. 

[Quillback]

3 hours ago, Dutch said:

There were a lot more boats down lake from Cape Fair Thursday than there were up the James on Wednesday.  I don’t know how you do it.   I couldn’t get any love on a jerk yesterday.  In fact I never got a bite less than 25’ deep.

The jerk bait thing died off pretty quickly.   After that it was milk run time and I moved around quite a bit, more than I normally would, but it would be a bite or two at a spot and that would be it.  I couldn't get bit deeper than 25 feet, but know someone that was deep spooning a got a few.  

Caught one of my keeper smallmouth back in a small cove that I hardly fish anymore.  8-10 years ago that cove always fished well in the winter, but it just doesn't hold hardly any fish anymore unless it is in the spring.  Went back in there to fish it a bit in the hopes there might be some back in there and got that smallmouth in about 5 feet of water near some rocks.  

[Dutch]

I couldn’t even find bait fish in coves.  All mine were near points and around small groups of bait.   All of my shallow fish have disappeared both up river and down.  It looks like a week before I can return and who knows what will be happening.  I may drag my Arig setups out of the rod locker next trip though I would rather not.

[willyfish]

Took a look at that jackall rerange on TW. Price is in the LC pointer range, good looking bait too. A lot of good reviews about it. Adds another choice to the Mix I guess. 

[Quillback]

12 minutes ago, willyfish said:

Took a look at that jackall rerange on TW. Price is in the LC pointer range, good looking bait too. A lot of good reviews about it. Adds another choice to the Mix I guess. 

So far so good, I haven't fished them much yet, but it worked for a bit yesterday.  So many dang jerk baits out there these days.