FISH CATCHING TRAVEL

Knockin Tail Lures by My Coast Outdoors

Weather

79/93.  Overcast. Winds SE at 10 to 15 mph.

Lake Level

Monday 97.49.    Today Site I use was down but the decline continues.   (Still on the decline, on the 11th 98.32.)

Bite Times

Major 1:52 pm to 3:52 pm.   Minor 6:54 am to 7:54 am.

It was hot and hunid today.  The cloud cover was perfect and the wind barely blew all day.  The water temp was in the mid to as high as 87 degrees.  But the best thing, the water really is clearing and it ended my day with a couple of big fish after noon.  The bite is on and if you bass fish get out there.

No lost picures today.  When I said I got them Monday here is how today and then went.  The bite is on.

This is how the one above had the Bang O Lure.  What a freakin bite.

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I headed for the grass patch I have been catching them and they were there like they have been for the last 2 weeks.  It really is fun tossing the swim jig in the grass and wallowing it out.  I am not sure how long the grass will last as the lake falls but they are there.  It is the green stuff, not implying you can not catch them other places as I learned today.

This size is on the chew.  Most today had spawned and were beat up.

I have been using almost any craw bait that swims with the 1/4 ounce swim jig.  Like I said last time it needs to get just a little chance to swim in the grass and then out from the edge and they jump it.  My first 2 banks are within sight of each other and produced a good 20+ before 9:00.  Of course lots of smalls but the better fish have finally showed up shallow.

They were on the jig from the minute I started until I quit.

Today I wanted to throw a few different things and guess what?  They ate it all.  Several came on buzzbait and as usual it was a great bite.  One of the better ones came out of the middle of downed tree pitching a beaver style bait right in the heart of it.  One cool battle and it took a while to get her out but since I flip with 20lb test and a flippin stick I usually win many of those battles.

I didn’t get the big buzzbait bite today but no complaints.

It was hard to decide what to throw today.

This is the one I winched out of the tree.  There are lots in the water and this is the only one I pitched to.   Take that for what it is worth.

The bite stayed consistent all morning.  Grass is still the ticket but since I did not fish many places without it not sure how good they might be.  As I was on the way in it hit me with the clearing water it was time to try the Bang O Lure.  (Both the Bagley Bang O Lure and the Lunker Lure buzzbait are two of the best baits ever made.  Have been fishing both for over 40 years.)  I stopped at a cove with no grass but plenty of stuff on the bank, mostly more sticks and buckbrush.

I fish the Bang O Lure by slowly fishing in a twitching but not really pulling it under to far.  At times the big fish seem to follow it and the good bites usually come way off the bank, which is exactly what the one at the top did.  She flushed it in a huge boil and immediately jumped.  With the bait wedged like it was it was nice knowing unless she broke the line she was in the boat.  I ended up catching 2 more in that small cove and called it a day.

When I said that Monday was off the chain I was not kidding, and today was right up there.  The fish are biting and there are plenty of ways to catch them.  Looking back on it wish I could have fished the other stuff a little more, but it was hard to put the jig down.  And if that last good one on Bang O Lure had happened earlier the day it would have been different as I would have stuck with it all day.  It really catches big fish on Coleto and the time is right.  At that point the wind had slacked, and it was hot.  How hot was it?  My phone which was laying on the deck said it was to hot to use and until I got in the truck and turned on the air it was not having it.  And the transducer on the trolling motor read 111 degrees as it heated up on the way in.  So time to call it a great day.

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The Islands

Nothing like a Chandeleur shark to keep it interesting.  We had several of these on our trip.

Notice he puts up a fight then the stringer heads for the hills and so do the boys.  Hard not to draw sharks when the catching is going on.  Cool stuff.

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The lake finally turned on like I hoped it would.  I will only fish one more day on Monday before heading out, but the last few days have been great.  But my mind is on the mountains and all they have to offer.  I am so looking forward to the new fishing adventure, my fishing life has been a been there done that and now something new.  I will be one happy camper when I hit a new lake, doing a new thing, and catching something different.  But no matter what or how the fishing will continue.  So keep stopping in and thanks for reading my stuff.

Good Luck and Tight Lines

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