Fish Catching Travel

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All you need right now.  Strike King Swimbait, Buzzbait, and Swimming Jig with a Caffine trailer.

I realized when I got home that I did not take any pictures to speak of when I fished yesterday with Gary, so the plan was to take a picture of my 5 best.  So here is my limit for your viewing pleasure.  It probably is not nearly as much fun to look at as it was to put in the boat.  But when it comes down to it I wacked them today.

Number 1 on the Swimming Jig.

It really helps to have a goal when you head to the water.  Often we go fishing with no goal, usually just a plan.  I wanted to do 2 things today, first was to fish where I absolutely knew they were from first thing until they bit to see if what I was experiencing as far as the bite goes was correct.  As I have said recently, the bite is best from midmorning on.  Second was to see if I could catch them on a buzzbait.  I got both of those things done.

I started in the big cove where Gary and I caught them yesterday, and it was slow first thing.  So keeping the goal in mind I fished it 3 times.  Swimbait first, and I think it was a little much, so for the first couple of hours it was the Swimming Jig.

That Swimming Jig is way down in his throat.

I stayed in that big cove from 8 until 12 noon.  They bit better and better, hitting the Swimming Jig best, but it was close with the swimbait.  And again today, seeing a nice fish roll over out of nowhere and eat that swimbait is a thing of beauty.

A nice main lake fish.

As the day warmed the fish moved into those shallow, with moderate cover, pockets in the coves and on the main lake.  Early the ones that bit were on the little steeper stuff, and it was clear they had not moved real shallow.  Before I left that cove I ended up catching 11, most of them after 10.   From then on I stopped right before pockets on the way back down lake and fished the point going in, the pocket, and then the point going out.   To get them to bite the Swimming Jig you have to throw it right in the stuff and reel it out nice and steady.  There were one or two at least in every pocket.

As it got around 2 I decided to finish in the pocket where I got them, then not got them, so I decided to take a stand and fish only the buzzbait.  Sometimes we have a feeling they are there, they just won’t bite.  I guess lipping 8 or 10 the last couple of times slowed them down.  So out came the buzzbait, and there you go.

You gotta love that buzzbait.  It catches a little bigger average.

While the lake color may leave swimmers and skiers a little less than happy, it is absolutely perfect right now for fishing.  When the waters heats, the fish go shallow, and I mean shallow, and the water color gives them that little extra sense of security.  So if you throw it, or the spinnerbait, throw it shallow.  And then run it right on the surface.  They are just not totally into it yet, the strike is more of an eat than the usual explosion, but they did not miss it.

Gary they were in there, they just wanted something different.

I caught 4 in the cove where we struck out yesterday, all good fish.  I could just feel they were still there so lesson learned.  Switched up baits on them and caught them, and they were really shallow.  That was the last place I fished today.  So after sorting the pictures I decided to show you the best 5 that would have made my limit.  I can live with that.  And since I only threw the buzzbait in one place for 15 minutes that is really going to come on soon.

As far as catching them, just reel the Swimming Jig or swimbait at a moderate speed, the buzzbait or spinnerbait on top.  Fish them both in those places I have been talking about.  Now do not get the idea they are in all those kinds of places, they aren’t.  But if you catch a couple they are there, just change up a little and find something else they will bite.  And the fish are definitely biting better from mid morning on.  So stick with it, sooner or later some will jump on.  We are so lucky here to have a local lake where you can put 15 or more bass in the boat with the possibly catching a big fish or two.

I know this may be a little much in the freshwater department for some of you salt nuts, but this great fishing on Coleto will calm down, and so will our March wind.  We are going to spend a couple of days with the grandbabies, then a serious assault on the Gulf will begin.  It really is a dilemma which way to go right now.  Spring is here, the fishing is great on fresh and salt, and it is good to be alive.  So keep on stopping in (Will get a good saltwater report up tomorrow, the trout are  biting) and thanks for reading my stuff.

Good Luck and Tight Lines