Dec 17, Indian Creek

[Quillback]

Put in about 10 AM, cold morning with freezing fog and I decided to wait until it got reasonable out there.

Couple of guys came into the dock right before I launched, very courteous and asked if they could pull out before I backed in and I said that was fine by me.  They were fast, so it was a good deal as if I had backed in I would've held them up on that one lane ramp.

Tied up to the dock, got out on the dock looked in the water on the other side and saw a couple of nice largemouth swim away.  Parked the truck, got the Ned rig out and threw off the dock, caught a couple of smallies, and each time I brought one in, they had 3 or 4 of their buddies following.  I thought this was going to be one heck of a day!

Well it wasn't, fished the next 3 hours and had one bite.  Finally found a few in the back of a windblown pocket that like a jig.  Fished another hour with zip and came back to the dock.

Fished around the dock, nothing, so backed the truck in to go home.  Decided to throw one more cast off the dock, and caught another smallie.

So ended up with 6 smalls with 3 of them being over the 15" mark.

Really nice afternoon for mid-December.  WT 52.

Couple of dock fish.

 

[BilletHead]

  I love it when they are striped up so much.

[AR Huzgr]

I'd take it!   Still not on water myself, making sure fully healed up.  Using my of water time to smoke a brisket today. Will probably get out later this week.

Great fish color on bottom photo.