Quillback Posted August 17, 2021 Posted August 17, 2021 Started at daylight, decided to work a top water down the bank. Fished about a mile of bank, caught 4 bass, one keeper largemouth. After that, worked a few spots with a Keitech, could not find hardly any fish, put one spot in the boat doing that. Now it was 9 AM and things were looking grim... I was working a gravel bank, going down the bank, not getting any bites, and saw a couple of fish blowing up about 100 yards away. Got down to where they were and they just started whacking my top water. There weren't a lot of them blowing up, but they were hot after that Evergreen. I was using an Evergreen SB 105 which has 3 sets of trebles, and during this top water craziness, they managed to mangle the two front split rings and pull the trebles off. With my Evergreen out of commission, I switched to a 1/4 oz Kastmaster and caught several more. Then it was pretty much over. Swam a Keitech for a bit, caught a walleye that was just short of being a fryer, after I released it, cast back right into the same spot and just got hammered, big fish, pulling drag, nothing I could do with it but let it pull drag when it wanted to, I thought for sure I had a super sized wallie, but after several minutes of fish fighting, it turned out to be a really nice channel cat. Put a couple dozen in the boat, mostly 12-15 inch spots with a couple of smallies and largemouth mixed in. There are dinky 3/4 inch shad all over the place, but where these fish were there were bigger 3 inch shad. No doubt in my mind they were in that spot because of those bigger shad. But after a while the shad were gone and so were the bass, I headed back to the ramp a little after 11. WT was 85 first thing in the AM. crazy4fishin, Carl W, nomolites and 9 others 12
pstone Posted August 17, 2021 Posted August 17, 2021 Nicely done! Congrats on a solid day! Quillback 1
rps Posted August 17, 2021 Posted August 17, 2021 Amazon has these at 17 to 22 dollars, depending on color. For that price, you would think Daiwa would use quality components. Were you walking it or fishing it like a chug bug?
Johnsfolly Posted August 17, 2021 Posted August 17, 2021 Congrats Jeff. Sounds like a very productive and action packed day!
Quillback Posted August 17, 2021 Author Posted August 17, 2021 13 minutes ago, rps said: Amazon has these at 17 to 22 dollars, depending on color. For that price, you would think Daiwa would use quality components. Were you walking it or fishing it like a chug bug? Walking it. If I ever buy anymore of this lure, I'm replacing the split rings right out of the box. magicwormman 1
rps Posted August 17, 2021 Posted August 17, 2021 1 minute ago, Quillback said: Walking it. If I ever buy anymore of this lure, I'm replacing the split rings right out of the box. Quill, that sounds like me. Quillback 1
Dutch Posted August 17, 2021 Posted August 17, 2021 Nicely done. You did better and quicker than we did.
cheesemaster Posted August 18, 2021 Posted August 18, 2021 Nice report! Feeling that drag go - sure does get a heart pounding!! Even if it is a catfish...👍. magicwormman 1
magicwormman Posted August 20, 2021 Posted August 20, 2021 Great job Quill! Nothing better than a good TW bite! Send some of those TW fish up the James! Our water color is bad around pt. 13! cheesemaster 1
aarchdale@coresleep.com Posted August 20, 2021 Posted August 20, 2021 5 minutes ago, magicwormman said: Great job Quill! Nothing better than a good TW bite! Send some of those TW fish up the James! Our water color is bad around pt. 13! Man i was thinking the water color in the James is perfect. It starts clearing up just before Aunts Creek
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