Mid Lake - Jan 25 - swimbait bite still strong

[Dock-in-it]

I fished this morning and found a real good deep water swimbait bite. After this last cold snap the WT has dropped to 45.8 and the fish still seem to prefer the SB. I kept the boat in 40 to 70 FOW and the bass were steadily moving throughout the entire water column.  Fish in the 1-10ft range were fairly easy to catch, but the deeper fish have a mind of their own. 

Lots of trees in the area but the fish swim right by the trees and keep on moving. I caught a fair amount of LM, but mostly K's and just a few SM.

I rountinely had fish on my graph from 7 to 8:30AM then they started to disappear. For me, scouting an area after 8:30 can be very misleading. I looked at two other area's after 9AM and caught a few more keepers but at daylight tomorrow morning these same area's could hold lots of fish. 

I used a 5/8 jig head with 3" SB 90% of the time and I did catch some on a Damiki rig.

These deep fish like to posture underneath the back of the boat so I often throw my SB about 10ft behind the boat and reel it thru the suspended fish (normally about 25-35ft down).

[Quillback]

Nice ones!  I might get out Tuesday, haven't been out in my boat since January 2.  

[edwin]

Fantastic effort as always!