FISH CATCHING TRAVEL

Knockin Tail Lures by My Coast Outdoors

This was one big fish.  

I admit to being completely stressed out with the house sale.  No reason at this point with things moving along, it is just me.  We are so done here and it sure would be nice to hit the road in 16 days with that taken care of.  But at least today I had a free day and the weather looked perfect.  One thing that is a constant on Coleto when the weather is like this it is big fish day, and it sure was.

Weather

59/55.  Cloudy skies.  Winds NE at 10 to 15 mph.  (Right on the button.)

Lake Levels

Today  94.92 msl.   10 days ago  95.10 msl.  (Clearly dropping and the ramp just might get interesting soon.)

Activity Times

Minor  11:13 am to 12:13pm.    (Only time I was out there.)

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Open wide.  That is a big square bill.

On getting to the lake the wind was blowing right along but the color is clear down lake and a little off color up lake.  The water temp was 67 at the ramp on quitting and 61 way up lake.  The plan of course was swim jig and spinner bait, and I stuck with it until I finally removed head from rear end and made a change.  Not a bite on a spinner bait and 5 on swim jig including one pretty good one that broke my line.  Being the prefect big fish day out came the square bill.  Nice to get it right once in a while.

5 minutes later.  And this was no small fry.

With the water falling like it is the places that have had a few for me, did.  But nothing to write home about and while I have a few pics they clearly do not make the blog today.  It was just to perfect so around noon it was the 6 Sense chartreuse square bill.  Then the right move, a channel bank with some deeper brush.  And then 2 bites within 5 minutes, and it was these 2.  Note the first one I had my cloves on but they got wet so did not have  them on when I caught the second one.

I was using 5 to 1 reel cranking at a moderate speed.  Neither one of them jumped it, it was just heavy.  The first one inhaled it and even though she tried to jump she was going nowhere.  The second was lip hooked and did the same wallowing thing but I managed to get her in the net without hooking the crankbait.  Sometimes it is good to be lucky.  It has been a while since I boated 2 real big fish in one day, but it happened, and I am thrilled.

Both came on deep laydowns on a bank where you would expect them to be with the water falling.  And by the same token early pre-spawn is right around the corner so big fish time is on.  I can not over emphasize how today was perfect.  Looking back on the last dozen plus years through high water and low, December and January with bad weather is prime time for big bass on Coleto and today was living proof.

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It looks like I have taken back control of the blog.  But one thing that has changed is it I can turn the comments back on.  If you are one of the folks who leaves the occasional comment, please just leave a hello so I can check it all out.  Some of you might have been put in a spam file so need to make sure you did not get blocked accidentally.  Plus always love hearing from all of you.  I have not been ignoring you, things were just out of joint.  A computer guru I am not.   Thanks.

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So why is it last call?  Hopefully I will get a couple more days on the lake but with a couple of salt trips with friends coming it is going to be close.  Today was the kind of day I live for and the weather did what it was supposed to.  So there is more fishing to come but the moving stuff will be keeping me busy.  But keep stopping in and thanks for reading my stuff.

Good Luck and Tight Lines

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