03-29-2014, 05:50 AM
Hit the lake solo since Madi is in school and the weather didn't look good for tomorrow.
Still too cold for the Bass. 59 degrees at launch ~30 minutes before the sun hit the water. At the end of the day the main lake water was 65. It all comes down to that AM temp to judge what is going on. At least from what I seen last weekend on Mohave. Main lake coves 62 in the AM and smallies on beds protecting eggs. 60 in the river and the females haven't made it up yet. At least that was my conclusion based on how the smallies acted when I found them at each of those areas.
I went just a bit south of the marina at launch and tossed everything in the boat. Landed one small smallie. About 8am a school of Stripers came by so 5 casts later I had 4 in the boat for dinner. Might as well catch something. I continued to cast everything I had. Shallow'ish, way deep, crank, jerk, jig, swimbaits, etc. I know I ran into 2 different beds but with the slight wind I couldn't see them. (The smallies were running about trying to lure me away from their spots, so guessing bed set up but no female/eggs yet.) Ran back up across from the marina for another hour and nothing. Ran north a ways and nothing. (I found one bed but he was spoooooky. I bet if I yelled jump 100 feet from him he would of...) He was in about 2 feet of water max. Going to be dry before a female is found, eggs are placed and hatched at the current rate the lake is going down...) Ran into a pile of Stripers up there so.... Might at well. Trolled for a bit and landed another 13 Stripers for something to do. Worked out. 4 for dinner and 13 for the smoker tomorrow.
Just sucks seeing the lake go down. Almost all of my favorite spots either don't exist or not worth any time anymore... Found lots of ooooh shiot I didn't know that was there spots today. Didn't hit anything but one certainly has to be on their toes...
Veeeery frustrating... I just don't get it. The spawn is coming up... They are suppose to be getting fat and feeding up for it. Where are they!!! I seen some smallies today but faaaar and few. Never seen a LMB. I did quite a bit of just cruising on the TM looking in the later part of the day when the wind went to zero and just nothing. 4,000,000 carps... Makes the sonar about useless...
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Still too cold for the Bass. 59 degrees at launch ~30 minutes before the sun hit the water. At the end of the day the main lake water was 65. It all comes down to that AM temp to judge what is going on. At least from what I seen last weekend on Mohave. Main lake coves 62 in the AM and smallies on beds protecting eggs. 60 in the river and the females haven't made it up yet. At least that was my conclusion based on how the smallies acted when I found them at each of those areas.
I went just a bit south of the marina at launch and tossed everything in the boat. Landed one small smallie. About 8am a school of Stripers came by so 5 casts later I had 4 in the boat for dinner. Might as well catch something. I continued to cast everything I had. Shallow'ish, way deep, crank, jerk, jig, swimbaits, etc. I know I ran into 2 different beds but with the slight wind I couldn't see them. (The smallies were running about trying to lure me away from their spots, so guessing bed set up but no female/eggs yet.) Ran back up across from the marina for another hour and nothing. Ran north a ways and nothing. (I found one bed but he was spoooooky. I bet if I yelled jump 100 feet from him he would of...) He was in about 2 feet of water max. Going to be dry before a female is found, eggs are placed and hatched at the current rate the lake is going down...) Ran into a pile of Stripers up there so.... Might at well. Trolled for a bit and landed another 13 Stripers for something to do. Worked out. 4 for dinner and 13 for the smoker tomorrow.
Just sucks seeing the lake go down. Almost all of my favorite spots either don't exist or not worth any time anymore... Found lots of ooooh shiot I didn't know that was there spots today. Didn't hit anything but one certainly has to be on their toes...
Veeeery frustrating... I just don't get it. The spawn is coming up... They are suppose to be getting fat and feeding up for it. Where are they!!! I seen some smallies today but faaaar and few. Never seen a LMB. I did quite a bit of just cruising on the TM looking in the later part of the day when the wind went to zero and just nothing. 4,000,000 carps... Makes the sonar about useless...
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