This was the first weekend I
was able to put together a double digits fish day on the water. It was
great weekend and several large fish were caught, but many mistakes were
made and more fish could have been boated.
Conditions:
On day 1 the weather was overcast but still hot
with the water temps in the mid seventies. The water was gin clear.
Day 2 started out sunny but a storm passed
through in the early afternoon which in my opinion my have turned on the bite.
Patterns Found:
Deep rocky structure and brush piles held fish so
long as it was anywhere from 19' to 40' deep. The fish would be in the
shallow parts of the aforementioned depths early in the morning and late
evening hours. In the middle of the day the fish would go deep and at
times they would even suspend.
Things I did right:
I've also gotten over my dislike of fishing deep.
Partly because I've gotten really good with a drop shot!
Last but not least I feel like I was able to
pattern the bass really well. That being said it wasn't hard to pattern
them. They were on rocky points and drop offs.
Things I did wrong:
I'll just start with suspended fish first. I
saw a good number of fish that were suspended on the graph and only tried to
catch them once. Even when I'd have fish following my bait I wouldn't try to
catch them. I know no one is a fan of suspending fish but I could have at
least tried to swim a grub. I guess I did try a strike king swimmin
caffeine shad.
I also didn't use search baits enough since I was
really set on the drop shot. I have in my arsenal a great deal of baits
that would have worked great as search baits in deep water and just didn't
employ them.
I'll mention my hook sets only briefly because I
started setting the hook much better around the evening of day one. I
lost quite a few fish due to poor hook sets. I realized with medium light
spinning tackle I'll need to really set the hook hard. When I made
that correction I landed more fish.
Gear/Baits Used:
Rods I used were berkley lightning shock series,
two medium heavy casting rods, one medium spinning and one medium light
spinning rod.
Reels I used were a Daiwa Megaforce casting reel,
an Abu Garcia Revo S3 casting reel, a Revo S3 spinning reel (on the medium rod)
and an Abu Garcia Orra spinning reel (on the medium light). I put 12 pound
spiderwire fluorocarbon on the Daiwa, 10 pound spiderwire fluorocarbon on the
Revo casting reel, 6 pound spiderwire fluorocarbon on the Revo spinning reel,
and on the Orra spinning I used spiderwire braid with 10 pound fluorocarbon
leader.
Baits: (caught fish)
Missile Baits Fuse 4.4 in Green Beret, Luck
"E" Strike 4" finesse worm in green pumpkin with red fleck and
in a natural brown color, (the natural color only caught one fish), and Berkley
Gulp Alive smelt colored minnow. All used on a drop shot.
Overall it was a great weekend and I caught a lot
of big fish! I think next time I will try to fish Carolina rigs and some
deep diving crank baits.
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