Big M area, January 5

[Quillback]

It was a nice day for fishing, catching for me, not so much.  Caught 8 on the Ned, with only 1 being a keeper.  Don't know whether to blame it on the 2 foot rise in the lake since last week or the nice weather, but the fish weren't where they were last week for the most part.  Missed several bites too, they just didn't seem to want it.

Did hear of someone having a good day elsewhere on the lake on the deep bite.

WT 43-46

[Dutch]

You had it better than I found it.  I went to Cape Fair.  It was 10 when I got there.  It was more foggy than I could have imagined.  So I drove down to Aunt’s Creek.  The fog had lifted.  I found fish from 30’ to 80’ but had no luck.  I worked my way to Piney.  There was a lot of floating debris which lessened toward the back.  I only had three bites and managed to boat two of them.  The good thing is I came away without the stink for 2021 so far.

[Quillback]

Being something of a weather wimp, I didn't launch until about 0830 in the hopes it would be warmer than say 0700.  But there was still some of that ice fog (I hate that stuff) around and the temp was 26.  Thankfully it warmed up fairly quick from there.

[Bill Babler]

Stone and I fished the dam for a couple of hours messing with his new boat and live scope. These fish have really,  really gone deep. Most of the shad were in 100' plus with some bass hovering above them in the 80' range. Tough day on high pressure slick water.  Surface temps at the dam still 48 degrees and water is super clear 

Mike and Justin fished mid lake and said the fish and shad were in the 40' to 60' range with the bass right in the shad balls. They looked from Pt.  9 to Campbell Point and only found fish and shad in one location. No birds on the shad they were lucky to find them. 

Justin Mcclelland. Is a Garmin wizard and was twerking Mike's unit.  Mike said Justin really helped him yesterday.  Not Mike's deal for the most part but the water was so calm yesterday it would have been hard if not impossible to do anything but look deep. 

Wish I had a better report. Goid Luck

 

[Dutch]

2 hours ago, Quillback said:

Being something of a weather wimp, I didn't launch until about 0830 in the hopes it would be warmer than say 0700.  But there was still some of that ice fog (I hate that stuff) around and the temp was 26.  Thankfully it warmed up fairly quick from there.

Cape Fair is so foggy that you can not go early.  Yesterday was the worst I have ever seen it.  I may start going back to Stockton, at least there is no fog down  there.

[merc1997 Bo]

16 hours ago, Quillback said:

It was a nice day for fishing, catching for me, not so much.  Caught 8 on the Ned, with only 1 being a keeper.  Don't know whether to blame it on the 2 foot rise in the lake since last week or the nice weather, but the fish weren't where they were last week for the most part.  Missed several bites too, they just didn't seem to want it.

Did hear of someone having a good day elsewhere on the lake on the deep bite.

WT 43-46

i burned up about twenty gallons of fuel looking deep yesterday, and that bite seems to be fading.  shad for the most part all seemed to have moved out into the main lake.  all scattered 60 to 80 feet deep.  put it on the trailer and went to eagle rock.  got out the doodle and caught bass all afternoon.  no keepers, but plenty of action.  all were fat as ticks and mostly k's, but did have few lmg's in the mix.  it was hard to pattern the depth a bite might occur.  some 8 to 10 and some out as deep as 25.  did catch 2 short walters.  catching something is certainly better than not getting your rod bent.  caught most of them on watermelon red.

bo