First Nice fish of the year

[Bill Babler]

Caught a good one this morning on a Dimiki rig. Exactly 5.0#

Got on the water late at 7am at Baxter. Surface temp 47.76. Caught the good fish and 2 squeaker keeps right off the bat. 

It got tough then till about 9:30 and the wind started blowing. Picked up a jerk bait and it was on. 1st. point with the boat in about 30’ tossing at the bank I caught 13 straight. Not a keeper in the bunch. All buck LM. 

Next windy flat point, same deal. Had 7 in a row. Again all male LM. No Keeps. All these fish 14” to 14 3/4”. 

Hit two more points and had 4 more total all LM short. 

Another crazy deal was every fish I caught was back to back. If I failed to catch one it was over for that location.  I guess what was one each spot was going to bite. 

Last 2 trips not a single K. All LM. 

Quit at 11:30 surface temp 48.4. 

Goid Luck





 

[Quillback]

Nice one!

[Bill Babler]

The LM Bucks really moved up today. Believe my jerk bait was probably in about 12’ to 15’ when they started eating it. 

Saw quite a few of them on Live Scope and throughout the day saw a bunch of fish charge it and refuse it. 

Believe they probably would have eaten an RK Crawler but the moss is really bad at Baxter out to about 12’ 

Tried to throw a jig on some of the fish that refused the jerker but greened up with that green slime about every cast. 

I’m betting by Wednesday we’ll see low 50’s surface temps pretty much lake wide. 
 

 

[edwin]

Well done, Bill!  I was down earlier the week and looked all over but couldn't find any wind at all...flat calm almost the entire trip.  Jerkbait fished very slow was my most productive.  As you said, lots of followers and not as many takers.  Had my biggest TRL bass in a long time.  No scale with me, but was just under 24" long.  Fun times for sure.  

 

[Bill Babler]

That fish of mine was just a smidge under 24” too.  Really nice fish.