Kim City - Jan 30 - General info regarding deep bite

[Dock-in-it]

I scouted/fished this morning for a few hrs and there is a big disconnect between the bait and the fish. In the river channel around channel swings you set your graph at a depth of 100ft and see an unlimited amount of shad starting at 90 FOW (stacked from 70ft to the bottom).  Some large schools of shad can also be seen in 60 FOW several hundred yds from the channel. 

I was not able to find any fish associated with these massive bait schools. 

I was able to find some active fish on the main lake around trees and just a small amount of scattered shad. The fish were feeding in small groups and several individual fish just raised up off the bottom to follow my Damiki rig. I would normally drop the Damiki to the bottom and slowly crank it straight up. 

The graph picture represents the bait/fish scenario that I was seeing in the area.

Kept boat in 40 to 55 FOW.

WT 45

 

 

[gitnby]

That’s funny. I found the exact same thing.
 

found tons of shad, but nothing feeding on them. 
 

tomorrow, I’m gonna try the jerk bait and the a rig on Bluff ends, and maybe crank some of the transition banks on either side of Main Lake points