Indian Creek, Dec 18

[Quillback]

Too cold for an early start today, so I waited until late in the morning and was fishing by 1100.  

Decent fishing today, there were some dry spells with no fish, but every once in a while I'd find a few grouped together and would get a couple of bites.  My first three were on the Ned rig, but I decided to go with a 2.8 Keitech and that worked better.  My two biggest smallies came in 20 FOW slow rolling the Keitech right off the bottom.  The other fish ranged from right on the bank out to 20 feet.  I caught a dozen bass, 10 smalls, one LM and one meanmouth.  Spent all my time around the dam basin area, never went back into the trees in Indian.

Only striper activity I saw was a couple of swirls near the dock at the Indian Creek ramp right after I got the boat on the trailer.  If a feeding frenzy had broken out I would've gone after them, but a couple of swirls and that was it.

I saw one other bass boat and a couple of rec boats.  No striper boats to be seen.

WT 51

Thought this mean was a good looking fish:

 

My two best smallies:

 

[Devan S.]

I put in at Ventris. Late start....we likely passed each other somewhere between.

I pulled umbrella rig for striper. Stayed close as I thought my boat was acting up. Had one solid hook up but it came loose. More boats out when I pulled out about 2:30. Then headed for the tailwaters.

[Johnsfolly]

@Quillback congrats on some pretty smallies and meanmouth! I need to catch a meanie at some point. Maybe you know a guide 😉.

[Dutch]

That’s the prettiest meanie I have ever seen.  Some good fish for a tough cold weather guy.

[rps]

14 hours ago, Dutch said:

That’s the prettiest meanie I have ever seen.  Some good fish for a tough cold weather guy.

MM are almost always handsome fish. And great to catch. I never caught one more than 16 inches, but they all punched above their weight class.