FISH CATCHING TRAVEL

Knockin Tail Lures by My Coast Outdoors

What does one do when they just get back from a hard-core fishing trip?  Go fishing.  With only a week until Colorado return will be fishing the lake a few more times on the spring farewell tour.  Looking at the forecast tomorrow it looks like it could be killer.  But like all things in fishing, you won’t know until you go.  I will be on the water at daylight with high hopes.

Weather

75/88.  Considerable cloudiness.  Winds SSE at 10 to 20 mph.

Lake Level

Today 97.49.    8 days ago 97.61.   (Still on the decline, on the 11th 98.32.)

Bite Times

Major 12:01 pm to 2:01 pm.   Minor 5:39 am to 6:39 am.

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It was just as good as I hoped it would be!

When a bass this size blasts a buzzbait it is a thing of beauty.

Let’s get this out of the way, something went wrong and this is the only picture I ended up with today.  I do not have a clue but it is possible the card was completely full.  Suffice to say there should have been more, and I mean lots more.  And here is why.

The one above was the first fish I caught this morning, and it went from there.  15 or so right off the bat, then on it went.  5 here, 3 there, every place I fished produced.  It was a great day, and while that one is the biggest I boated one jumped off right at the net that was quite a bit bigger than that one.

Maybe 5 or 6 jumped on the buzzbait but it was the swim jig and craw plastics that caught them.  Today was a repeat of the last few times I fished the lake, it was big numbers but the size was better.  And the pattern is absolutely consistent, green grass.  Add stunning perfect weather and it was a recipe for a beat down.  Cloudy all day with a lighter wind.

And the cover, the green grass.  Not saying that it was the only place but it was money.   I was throwing it as far back in the grass as I could, but if it was to thick only a foot or so.  And don’t reel it to fast, it needs to be in the grass and not on it.  They hit it from big blow ups in the grass to half way back.  There were quite a few that the line either started moving sideways or just slowly tightened as they eased up on it.  The big one I lost was in a couple of foot of water at best.  Weather a blue gill colored swim jig or a brown, they both produced fish.  And the trailer made little difference as long as it had wagging craws.  By time I quit at 2:00 the floor of the boat was littered with plastics missing a claw, the bite was on.  It was a little unusual but they were not the least bit interested in white.

I have a little theory on that and it is a combination of factors.  First the water color while 80 degrees is still off color.  Second though there is still a little shad spawn here or there it is getting towards bluegill spawning time.  Over the last 10 years I have caught some of my biggest bass during the next month on the bluegill swim jig and as long as the water color remains the same it will stay good.  So buzzbait first thing then stick with the swim jig hopping grass to grass, and I mean that nice green stuff.

In the early period of the blog, I would be really mad that I lost all the pictures today, there were plenty of good fish.  It was probably my best day of the year.  But you know what?  It was a serious whacking and the kind of spring fishing I came back for.  Just sad not able to share them with you but it was ugly.  Have a few things to do tomorrow then it will be back at it Wednesday.  Might even stop in Academy and see if they have a pink trick worm.  Conditions are perfect for it and that would be another way to catch them.  So keep stopping in and thanks for reading my stuff.

Good Luck and Tight Lines

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