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Ronnie Garrison, Aliceville, bass, 2/28/09, Steven - FishNews - 03-02-2009
Saturday - February 28, 2009 - Day 59<br /><br />Cloudy, windy, cold day, water 56 to 58 degrees<br /><br />Got up at 1:55 AM, left at 2:30 AM and drove 233 miles to Tuscaloosa to meet Steven to fish Aliceville for a AON article. We drove about 40 miles to the river and it was as high as he had ever seen it, and muddy. They had flooding rains Friday. His truck thermometer showed 58 degrees.<br /><br />Aliceville is on the Tombigbee River on the Mississippi line west of Tuscaloosa. It was dammed in 1980 and is mostly river with lots of sloughs and backwater flats flooded. A lot like Demopolis.<br /><br />Put in shortly after daylight and headed back into some backwaters way off the river. First little pocket he fished the current had pushed muddy water into it. I stayed in the bottom of the boat taking notes. <br /><br />He quickly went into an old oxbow lake and found some clear water. He was throwing a XR2 and I threw a Secret Weapon spinnerbait. We worked down one bank - lots of dead grass in the water - but no hits. Worked across to the other side and found muddy water coming down it from the wind - wind was very cold and getting colder.<br /><br />Steven turned and threw across the mud line in the middle of the slough and caught a small keeper, then another. I caught two on my spinnerbait and he caught three more, then I got the best of the day, close to 3 pounds. He got one more before we left there. There was a big area of hydrilla where we caught the fish - water was about 4 feet deep. Fish were holding on the mudline in the grass.<br /><br />Next slough same thing - near the back it was clear and had grass on the bottom out in 3 to 4 feet of water and he caught three, one about 2.5 and another keeper. I caught one keeper there.<br /><br />By now the air was much colder. We looked at spots for the article and fished several of them but no more hits. Left at about 2 PM Central time - back at the truck it was 49, temp dropped nine degrees since 6 AM.<br /><br />I headed home - got home at 7:30 PM - 17 hours after I left.<br /><br />For the other forums that pull this report and don&#39;t post the signature line, please visit my site at http://fishing.about.com for more on fishing!<br /><br />Called my wife on the way home - said it was in the 70s and sunny. I guess the rain and clouds and cold followed me - got up Sunday morning after sleeping 12 hours to rain that turned to snow. Temp dropped from 46 at 10:00 AM to 36 at noon then below freezing pretty quick. Had about three inches of snow on the ground by 3 PM when I went to the farm.<br />