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Post by basser425 on Sept 14, 2013 5:40:41 GMT -5
Windy but beautiful day. apparently there was a tournament last weekend ( also one on Tuesday night) and the boys were wiping up the lake..over 50 fish were weighed in... quite impressive. I caught 6 yesterday, 2 were in the 3 pound+ range, mostly smallies on crank baits. The water is mixed, clearer down lake and still off color up past the no wake area.
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Post by tomm on Sept 14, 2013 5:48:22 GMT -5
I was there Monday and caught 6 as well. All largemouth, nothing worth talking about size wise. I was catching them on jigs and texas rigged soft plastics on steep banks. I'm curious as to how you were targeting smallies.
Tom
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Post by basser425 on Sept 14, 2013 12:30:18 GMT -5
windy rocky shoreline points. not drop off areas but spots that had some chunk rock and specifically points. White deep little N. All on the main lake. Once the water cools off more those drop off areas you hit will get better as the rock face themselves adds radiant heat to the water below. I have had great days on those steep cliff areas when there is heavy boat traffic, The crashing waves pushed baitfish into the rocks and the bass sit below waiting for an injured meal. I think the same was happening on Friday, but the water was still warm enough that the fish are still spread out. The other thing to try is look for big balls of alwifes, then back off and use deep diving crank baits... the smallies and stripers follow the bait around and sit below them...meals on the fin so to speak, but it works.
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Post by tomm on Sept 15, 2013 6:39:22 GMT -5
I appreciate the tips. I'm heading there tomorrow sometime and will give those ideas a shot.
Tom
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Post by tomm on Sept 19, 2013 6:19:57 GMT -5
Not much luck in the way of quantity on Monday and Wednesday but the few that I caught were nice ones. No luck fishing the points even though the depthfinder showed plenty of fish suspended around them.
Tom
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Post by basser425 on Sept 21, 2013 6:02:51 GMT -5
that lake is so weird. Yesterday I took my son out. Right at the ramp I nailed a 4 pound Smallmouth and the day went downhill from there. We had 6 . "son" had a heavy smallmouth on but we lost it at the boat, plus 2 smaller SM and 2 small LG. The "points" suggestion I made was not working on Friday but all of the Smallies were on points, just not in numbers and not at all the areas we tried. But what the heck, it was a nice day and we got out. We gave up on the points i and began and throwing worms along shoreline structure and that produced the 2 smaller LM. the water was in the low 70's and green green green.
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Post by cdk82 on Sept 26, 2013 9:01:43 GMT -5
hell i only caught 5 on my best couple days there and thats being there from 8 to 11 hours whats the best day you had there
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Post by basser425 on Sept 27, 2013 18:03:59 GMT -5
I was out today, 9-27 and lost 2 nice fish... probably 3.5 pounds each, the lake got green again, and the bite slowed considerably. water temps still around 70`. the fall is my best time of the year when the larger smallmouth come out to play... "best" depends on what you consider good... I had 2- 4+ pounds smallies within 20 minutes one day, ... that was nice.
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