EricM
Well-known member
A bit nippy this morning when I started out, but the blues were feeding reasonably well despite the cold front. Big fish today were a 15 and a couple of 12's and at noon I got stuck on unlucky #13 in the boat and for two hours couldn't catch #14. I just knew I should have counted #12 twice and skipped to 14! They were bunched up again today, and at mid-morning they quit hitting on the bottom and sat tight under schoools of shad 10 to 12 feet above the bottom, 5 or 6 cranks up, and were feeding there. At about noon, they just disappeared! I couldn't see any on the fishfinder, and no hits at all by the time I left at 2 PM. There was no change in the water flow, so that wasn't what changed. I wonder if they followed the shad up to the surface? The gulls were really working the red buoy side of the river from the "community" buoy down to the rock wall, and from the channel edge up onto the shallow flat. I assume the skipjack were chasing the shad since it was such a large area. For bait today both skipjack and redhorse sucker worked equally well.
