07-14-2009, 09:00 AM
We woke up this morning just after 4:00 AM to hit the lake a daybreak... looked at the weather map and saw some big rain building up quickly emoEek With the threat of T-storms, we decided we'd better just go back to sleep.... NOT! emoBig
<br />We hit the lake a daybreak in search of some of those schoolers ppl have been catching. First, we hit a grassy ( well it was last year emoScratch )cove to throw some spooks and poppers.... the only thing that looked at them was a river crane emoRolleyes <br />Saw a lot of CBA folks doing their thing on the ledges... so, we ran on out to another spot that we&#39;ve caught fish in the jumps before... not much there, no blowups, but did catch a few slicks on CB and CR. We checked another area I used to frequent years ago when club fishing for a morning TW bite, and found some emoTongue By this time, it was 7:30 already, but we did hook a few with 3 being solid keepers on spooks, poppers, CR, spinnerbaits in about 18 ft of water. Fish didn&#39;t stay up top long, but if you got a lure close to them it got bit emoSmile <br />After the CBA folks vacated the channel ledges, we moved up to one and I pulled out the dropshot and started bouncing it off the bottom while watching the graph... started in 20 FOW, and worked out to 36&#39; and found fish on the graph and on my hook emoCool ... caught 3 quick ones on the dropshot. The fish were sitting in one area about the size of a barrel. You had to get right on top of it, but when you did, you got nailed emoThumbsup I hung one, set the hook and kept tension on it without bringing it up very fast ... being the gentleman I am, I kept hold of the fish and trolled up to let my wife get bit too. Was a good idea at the moment emoIdea .. but, once she got her fish stuck and I started putting more pressure on mine, I realized I had a good &#39;un emoDance ... but it had run way up under the boat and toward the front. I worked on it, bringing it up... seems like it would take 2 feet of line back everytime I pulled in 3... got it to the top (it was a pig!) and it took off under the boat again and toward the front... on the other side of the trolling motor emoBang emoBang I couldn&#39;t pull the TM up before it got my line hung on it... lost the fish emoBawl ... I probably could have boated it if I positioned the boat better to work the fish, but I wanted my wife to get a fish too .... oh well, there will be more emoSun <br />She did manage to catch her first pig and jig fish today... had to get a picture of it and turn it loose so it could get back down to it&#39;s 35&#39; deep home emoFish <br />We had a good morning, fished until about 11:00, right before the rain... caught 25&#43; bass with a few keepers... best 5 may have weighed 10ish. Saw Churly pulling his boat out at HBSP... he said he was going home to die after doing the CBA ... lol
<br />We hit the lake a daybreak in search of some of those schoolers ppl have been catching. First, we hit a grassy ( well it was last year emoScratch )cove to throw some spooks and poppers.... the only thing that looked at them was a river crane emoRolleyes <br />Saw a lot of CBA folks doing their thing on the ledges... so, we ran on out to another spot that we&#39;ve caught fish in the jumps before... not much there, no blowups, but did catch a few slicks on CB and CR. We checked another area I used to frequent years ago when club fishing for a morning TW bite, and found some emoTongue By this time, it was 7:30 already, but we did hook a few with 3 being solid keepers on spooks, poppers, CR, spinnerbaits in about 18 ft of water. Fish didn&#39;t stay up top long, but if you got a lure close to them it got bit emoSmile <br />After the CBA folks vacated the channel ledges, we moved up to one and I pulled out the dropshot and started bouncing it off the bottom while watching the graph... started in 20 FOW, and worked out to 36&#39; and found fish on the graph and on my hook emoCool ... caught 3 quick ones on the dropshot. The fish were sitting in one area about the size of a barrel. You had to get right on top of it, but when you did, you got nailed emoThumbsup I hung one, set the hook and kept tension on it without bringing it up very fast ... being the gentleman I am, I kept hold of the fish and trolled up to let my wife get bit too. Was a good idea at the moment emoIdea .. but, once she got her fish stuck and I started putting more pressure on mine, I realized I had a good &#39;un emoDance ... but it had run way up under the boat and toward the front. I worked on it, bringing it up... seems like it would take 2 feet of line back everytime I pulled in 3... got it to the top (it was a pig!) and it took off under the boat again and toward the front... on the other side of the trolling motor emoBang emoBang I couldn&#39;t pull the TM up before it got my line hung on it... lost the fish emoBawl ... I probably could have boated it if I positioned the boat better to work the fish, but I wanted my wife to get a fish too .... oh well, there will be more emoSun <br />She did manage to catch her first pig and jig fish today... had to get a picture of it and turn it loose so it could get back down to it&#39;s 35&#39; deep home emoFish <br />We had a good morning, fished until about 11:00, right before the rain... caught 25&#43; bass with a few keepers... best 5 may have weighed 10ish. Saw Churly pulling his boat out at HBSP... he said he was going home to die after doing the CBA ... lol