Indian Creek area, Feb 13

[Quillback]

I launched at Lost Bridge North today, last time I launched at Indian Creek one of the dock cables was stretched across the ramp about 3-4 feet under the water.  Didn't want to test that one as the lake has dropped a few inches since then, so went over to LB north.  I motored over to Indian today to check it out and the cable has been moved out, so all is well.  COE does a good job of taking care of the courtesy docks on Beaver.

Lake was glass for most of the morning:

Saw a couple of stripers swirling on top right after I launched.  Cast at them for a few minutes, no luck, but saw a pack of them busting some shad about 50 yards away.  Jumped on the TM and got over their as fast as I could, got bumped on my first cast, swam the swimbait a little further and had a striper nail it and it I tell ya, the drag was screaming and then it just came off.  Bummer.

I did pull a couple of chunky smallmouth out of that surface activity and then it stopped.

I went to fishing the Ned around trees and rocks for a couple of hours and they weren't having it, one hard pulling bite that got off and that was it.

Spent another hour fishing a 3.3 Keitech in 20 FOW and caught a couple more smallmouth and called it a day around noon.

Total - 5 bass, 4 were smallmouth and of those 4, 3 were keeper sized.  A bit slow, things should improve slowly but surely.

WT 48

[breeves2245]

Thanks for the report. I know water with a little chop is better than glass most of the time, but glass sure makes it easier to detect any schooling action.

That smallie sure has a nice dark color.

[Quillback]

A little wind would've helped, I think.  Looks like we'll get some next week.

[razorbackfan4life]

We went out yesterday to Little Clifty and Rambo.

Caught about 15 in 5 hours, but no big ones.  

There was quite a bit of bait in Little Clifty.  Caught mostly Kentuckys.  Wiggle wart and grub(scoping). Then the striper moved in like they always do and the bass became apprehensive.  

We got into Rambo about 11:30 and I caught a couple of Kentucky's scoping moving across a pocket in 60 ft of water, they were down about 15 ft cruising along.  One was a pretty chunky fella.  Dad caught a few additional Kentucky's on ned rig. Tried the shallow bite and caught a couple of blacks, but they weren't as active as the K's.  I didn't find much bait fish in Rambo.  Before we left I was cruising around all over trying to find fish on the scope, but there was NOTHING.  I think the last hour or so I didn't see a single fish or ball of shad.