Big one from early January

[razorbackfan4life]

I've fished just about every arm on Beaver Lake, but there was one arm I had never really ventured in to other than the mouth.  

I told my fishing buddy(dad) to load up and we headed out that morning.  

It was the first day after a cold front, cloudy and windy.  Water temperature was still running 49-51.  

Started out in Rocky Branch, and caught a nice 2.5-3 lb large mouth on wiggle wart, couple of additional small keepers and a nice 2.5lb smallmouth(scoped him). Then we headed to the spot I've never fished and landed this beauty.  Caught it on a jig in back of pocket 4-6 ft deep.  

Shortly after that dad landed a 4lber on wiggle wart in same area.  

Quality fish were shallow that day.  We did catch some keepers on points, but not the tournament winning ones.  The bite was great all day.

I think our best 5 would have gone 18/19 lbs.  

In true Beaver lake fashion we went out the next day and fished same part of lake and caught 4 fish in 5 hours with only 3 keepers.  Largest being 2.5 smallie.  It was bluebird skies and light winds.  Livescope made it abundantly clear the fish weren't active that day on that part of lake. 

 

[Quillback]

Nice, congrats!  

[razorbackfan4life]

Ready for the cold air to move out in a week to 10 days.  

I enjoy one good snow a year, and we are getting it now.  

Hope to get out there sometime soon.