FISH CATCHING TRAVEL

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Weather

85/65.  Foggy early then partly cloudy with a 10% of rain.  Wind  SSW 5 – 10mph.

Solunar Times

Best  8:52 am until 10:52 am.   (Only relevant time.)

Lake Level

Today  98.28 msl.   Yesterday  98.26 msl.

*******************The bass are eating the pearl silver Jerk Shad!

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Open Wide!

With the bass eating like they were yesterday it was a no brainer.  I have been saying for a month that they are coming to the cover, and today they did.  Now I did not catch any big fish, but they are next.  The next cloudy drizzling day on Coleto has a chance to be epic.

They were biting when I got started………….

I started on the bank I started on yesterday and caught 3, today it was 7 and it went from there.  Still jerking the pearl sliver Controlled Descent Jerk Shad on 15lb mono with a 3/0 1/8th ounce swim bait hook.  I am making sure that when I work it there is a nice walk the dog pattern,  and again like yesterday they are right on the bank in next to nothing.  I am seeing every bite and it is freakin’ cool.

Next I hit the second bank I fished yesterday where I caught 4 and did not have a bite,  but no worries, I fished it later this afternoon and caught 3 or 4.  By time I was there I had way lost count.  After not catching on that one place it did not happen again the rest of the day.  Everywhere I fished I had bites, catching a couple, 5, 2 or 3, just real steady.  First I think the water stabilizing and clearing is really helping, and today something else was important – No wind!

No big ones but they sure were willing.

Once I figured it out it really was game on.  There were no big fish, the only one I broke off was probably me not paying attention to my line.  I am tossing it right in the stuff, and today had a couple of those bait flopping out on some grass and they would try to get it.  The perfect cast is right to the bank and working it immediately in a walk the dog keeping it right where you can see it in any little slot or open area, even if it is behind cover.  Then you will either see the fish or the bait will just disappear.  And I can not stress enough how the Jerk Shad needs to be on there perfectly straight.  If it is it will work back and forth without spinning.  But today held one other great big surprise.

It finally dawned on me, they are way back, not only in the stuff, but they have moved to the coves.  And they are on the shallowest bank they can find in some of the shallowest places.  I fished several coves I have not fished in a while and they were there.  Since I am fishing out of the skiff no temperature gauge, but I have a feeling as it warmed up the bait went there, you could see some flipping, and so did the bass.  Grass is still the preferred cover, but I did catch a couple out of shallow wood.  And on the last bank alone I caught 9.  I was going to quit when I gave it the old one more place, and that place was the shallowest place on the lake.  In fact, it is a spring time place.  And 9 fish later, plus several misses, I called it a day.  When you really do figure out a pattern and they cooperate nothing is better no matter what fish you chase.

And biting when I quit………….  Lots like this during the day, with many more smaller ones.

I wanted to show you some fish today and from the pictures give you a pretty good idea what is going on.  They really did bite from the moment I started until I quit.   And once it sunk in my pea brain to go really shallow, then shallower, it was as consistent as it has been all fall.  As I have been saying it was no brainer that the fishing was going to get good.  Next one would expect the big fish to follow, and they will.  But it might take a little more cool weather and no more color in the lake.  As a side note I did not fish way up lake today.  There are some really good days coming and I intend to take full advantage of it.

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Today was one of those really fun days.  It almost turned into a call your shot day.  A nice patch of grass in a foot of water, get ready.  A little channel way back in the stuff, here one comes.  And being able to see them eat only made it better.   The weather looks perfect for tomorrow and I will be back at it.  While frog, worm, and even a small swim bait will work I am going to stick with a different version of the old saying  –  “Never change baits when it is working, or don’t leave fish to find fish.”  So keep stopping in and thanks for reading my stuff.

Good Luck and Tight Lines