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I'll try to post more information as time permits, but here's a brief overview to start with.
Because of the expected cold front for later in the week, I decided to spend my practice time (Mon – Wed) trying to find deeper fish in hopes they would not be as adversely affected as the shallow fish would be. So with that in mind I began running all the river ledges north of Chester Frost. By Wed I had about 6-7 locations holding schools of fish. Most of them were next to the main river channel in 10-12’ of water dropping into 20+.
The first day of the tournament (Thur) arrived with a cold front as expected. I fished all the locations where I had found fish earlier in the week and to my surprise they were gone. Nothing was showing up on the graph like I had been seeing before, so all I can say is they must have relocated to even deeper water or other areas of the ledges. I spent the entire day trying to find out where they went, but no luck. All I caught were some short fish, so a big zero for day one.
Since I was unable to put together a backup plan, I decided to run the same areas on Day 2 in hopes the fish had recovered some from the front. Fishing was much better to say the least. Right off the bat I lost a 3 pounder at the first stop. I had a good hookset but the fish just pulled off. At the next stop we caught several short fish and a big catfish. At stop 3 I caught a nice largemouth that weighed 6 lbs even. We made two other stops where we caught more short fish and on the last stop by the Nuke plant I caught two more keepers.
All my fish came from the river ledges on a brush hog in pumpkin or a junebug finesse worm rigged on a lead head. The 6 pounder came on the finesse worm which was rigged on 10 lb test line. So needless to say, there was a tense few minutes until we got the fish in the net.
I also wanted to say thank you to those that helped. I can only imagine how bad it could have been if I had come to Chick completely cold.
Because of the expected cold front for later in the week, I decided to spend my practice time (Mon – Wed) trying to find deeper fish in hopes they would not be as adversely affected as the shallow fish would be. So with that in mind I began running all the river ledges north of Chester Frost. By Wed I had about 6-7 locations holding schools of fish. Most of them were next to the main river channel in 10-12’ of water dropping into 20+.
The first day of the tournament (Thur) arrived with a cold front as expected. I fished all the locations where I had found fish earlier in the week and to my surprise they were gone. Nothing was showing up on the graph like I had been seeing before, so all I can say is they must have relocated to even deeper water or other areas of the ledges. I spent the entire day trying to find out where they went, but no luck. All I caught were some short fish, so a big zero for day one.
Since I was unable to put together a backup plan, I decided to run the same areas on Day 2 in hopes the fish had recovered some from the front. Fishing was much better to say the least. Right off the bat I lost a 3 pounder at the first stop. I had a good hookset but the fish just pulled off. At the next stop we caught several short fish and a big catfish. At stop 3 I caught a nice largemouth that weighed 6 lbs even. We made two other stops where we caught more short fish and on the last stop by the Nuke plant I caught two more keepers.
All my fish came from the river ledges on a brush hog in pumpkin or a junebug finesse worm rigged on a lead head. The 6 pounder came on the finesse worm which was rigged on 10 lb test line. So needless to say, there was a tense few minutes until we got the fish in the net.
I also wanted to say thank you to those that helped. I can only imagine how bad it could have been if I had come to Chick completely cold.
