Fishing Report

[Bill Babler]

Fished the last couple of days and the old saying of what a difference a day makes is really true.

Hate to tell people you should have been here yesterday, but that was a fact from Wednesday and Thursday and then the debockle on Friday.

Wednesday and Thursday, found the really nice smallies and some super K's in the dam area on long pea-gravel points, best with some wind, but really didn't matter as they seemed to bite us anyway.

Cradaddy cranks in browns and green patterns seemed to be the best tablefare.

Fish were in 5 to fifteen and some of these fish, were real toads. Caught some fantastic K's up shallow, and that has just not been happening. They may be ready to move up and turn on. Water temp 56 to 60.

Thursday, myself, Chris Tetrick and Bill Beck fished the dam area, deep fishing from 48 to 65 on the bottom on some major flats and humps. Nice K's and Whites really ate our junk with gusto. Don't know the numbers, but I would guess about 30 fish in the half day prospecting trip. Most being either keepers, or right on the border for the K's and I think about 5 really nice whites.

Most fish were either on the dropshot, grub, or white wareagle spoon.

Friday was a different day, with 16 guide boats out of big cedar. Fish were not responding on the deep spots and the only fish seem to be coming flipping docks and swimming 1/4 oz 4 inch C-tail grubs on flat gravel. Not good.

I was not on the trip, but Chris reported that everyone struggled to the max.

[J.E.]

Bill,

Fished a small derby on Saturday. Bud Day won throwing a blade all day with six fish over 20#'s in a couple creek arms by the dam. All I know is a double willow 1/2 oz blade around the wood. Water temp was 54-53 with a lot of wind.....

[carolina-rig-01]

i fished a club tourney out of cape fair on saturday. threw a spinnerbait a lot of the day, having plenty of wind for the blade bite i just new it was gonna be productive. man i was wrong, or at least as far as me and my partner goes. we managed a few fish on blades paralleling chunk rock banks with the wind hitting them at a 45 deg. angle. the 45 deg. angle seemed to be a key most of the day for us. we threw the spinnerbaits in cedars with wind, we threw them along banks with the wind coming straight into them, we burned them, we slow rolled them, we kept changing blades sizes and colors along with changing spinnerbait colors altogether and it just didn't happen. we did manage a few fish on crankbaits. wiggle wart type baits produced a little bit when we threw them on flats. we were in 20-25 fow and had some wood. we caught our bigger fish on square billed crankbaits fishing in less than 5 fow with the wind again hitting the bank at a 45 deg. angle. burning the bait right into a laydow was the only way we could buy a bite on the square billed crankbait. too little too late but i did finally get on a jig bite throwing an eakins jig with a lil' critter craw trailer. a lot of these fish were the type of kentuckies that will drive you nuts, good fat fish that go about 14 3/4 inches long. i think this pattern would have produced some quality fish but i didn't figure it out until about 30 min. before weigh in. man i just realized this is a long fishing report for not catching many fish. well i will get off of here and let someone with something productive to say chime in.

[Gary Lange]

What Carolina-rig-01 did not mention was that one of the big fish weighed in that afternoon was 6.70lb Largemouth that was caught on a Spinnerbait. Which was much to close to my Big Bass of the year which was 6.96lbs.

[J.E.]

Come on Gary......... they were just teasing!!! LOL!