Kim City - Dec 14 - 4" Damiki and 3"swimbait

[Dock-in-it]

I fished this morning and scratched out a limit from the few fish that were in the creek section. The bait was not very plentiful,  but just enough to hold some fish. You are not able to depend on the shad being in the same creek from one day to the next. This morning I just relied on patience and finally aggravated some nice LM and a few decent spots.

I used a 4" Damiki rig (5/8oz head) and 3" swimbait (5/16oz head). The pictured LM were caught on Damiki in about 32ft. The swimbait fish were in 35-42ft and I would see them on FFS and let the bait go to the bottom and slow retrieve. I caught a bunch of short swimbait fish.

I fished the 5/8oz Damiki on 10# line to make it fall fast.

WT 54

[Dutch]

Good going.  Is that a sexy shad fluke in the pic?

[Dock-in-it]

Hey Dutch, here is the info on the bait. A regular fluke will work, but the jerk minnow is just a confidence thing for me. The setup will work vertical, casting to surface/chasing, and utilize as a 'quick drop' swimbait. The drop speed of the 5/8 makes them react pretty good some days and some days they ignore it.

[Dutch]

Thanks.  I’m not familiar with them.  It just looked like a fluke to me.

[Quillback]

Went yesterday myself, caught a dozen short fish on Ned rigs.  Lots of junk in the water from the rising water and some stain too.  Not seeing any deep fish at all.