11-20-2017, 10:00 AM
Took a couple boats up to the chick To try some fall fishing. We ended up catching 17 total yesterday out of our boat and brother ended up with about the same, but he had the bag yesterday too. Weighed in right around 18 lbs yesterday for his best five. He got on a hump at the right time and boated all his keepers. All his came on a paddle tail swim bait. We caught fish on a variety of stuff.... fish head spin,mcstick jerkbait and echo crank bait. Key was something with a little bit of green back for us. Found an enormous amount of bait in the back of the areas we fished right beside the nuclear plant and behind skull island, but those fish had a buffet and would not touch anything. Really frustrating seeing good fish just bust shad all day and you can’t get em!! In some cases, you could pull right up in the bait balls and see the bass right beneath them. Seems like with as much bait the bass have to eat this fall, should make for some healthy fish. Once we found areas where the bait didn’t seem to be so thick, we could catch fish. All in all, one of our best trips and one of my best fall fishing ventures.