After reading some of the other reports for the same day; I don't feel as bad.
I took Friday off from work for my birthday weekend so I could go fish with dad. We hit the water early out of WolfT. It was foggy and cloudy when we started. Light breeze. Water temps in the low 80s. It got to the mid 80s before the storm hit. Water seemed really clear to me...but I don't fish the Chick much. With the depth finder saying we were in 6 feet of water, I could look down into the water and see the tops of the weeds...so that is pretty clear to me. Up near the nuke plant, the water was dirtier.
We started fishing for bass round the weed bed edges. Threw big jerkbaits and I played with a topwater Pop-R for a little bit. We only caught big bluegill for the first little bit...go figure. Then we hit a little flurry of small non keeper bass on the jerkbaits. I lost a decent 2.5 to 3 pounder that jumped and threw it back at us. But nothing fast...nothing really big. When the sun came out for a little bit, we started crappie fishing. We marked a lot of fish on the depth finder...just couldn't get them to hit good. Put one keeper White in the boat...had a few short strikes. Then fish started breaking all at the back of the boat. I thought they were stripe/white bass at first...threw a crankbait in there and hooked up really fast. Ended up being a chunky 2.5 lb LM. It was a whole school of largemouth working shad on top. Only lasted a few seconds and they were gone.
We tried the crappie thing in the creek channels and road beds near WolfT. After that...we headed to the Nuke plant area to try some ledge bass fishing. Didn't really know where to go or what to throw...threw big worms and deep divers. Nothing. Nadda. Started seeing more fish break towards the shallow weedline...ran over there and got into white bass. They were starting to break decent....but would pop up here and then go down...and resurface about 100 yards over from where they were. You'd drive yourself crazy chasing them. This is about the time the storm came up. We headed back to the WolfT bridge and sit under it til the storm came through. Dad caught a few little crappie while sitting under the bridge. No keepers. Went back out after the storm...back to the weed edges where we had first started. Fish were breaking there too...never did get to catch one of them though...they were always too far out of reach. I suspect they were white bass too. Then we started catching a few fish on the jerkbaits....all were black crappie in about 6 or 7 feet of water on the weed edges. We caught 3 and lost a couple more. All keepers. Threw them all back.
All together...I think we had 6 largemouth. Only two would have kept that we got in the boat. 4 keeper crappie, 3 throw backs. SLOW day on the lake...but it beats a good day at work any day of the week.
I took Friday off from work for my birthday weekend so I could go fish with dad. We hit the water early out of WolfT. It was foggy and cloudy when we started. Light breeze. Water temps in the low 80s. It got to the mid 80s before the storm hit. Water seemed really clear to me...but I don't fish the Chick much. With the depth finder saying we were in 6 feet of water, I could look down into the water and see the tops of the weeds...so that is pretty clear to me. Up near the nuke plant, the water was dirtier.
We started fishing for bass round the weed bed edges. Threw big jerkbaits and I played with a topwater Pop-R for a little bit. We only caught big bluegill for the first little bit...go figure. Then we hit a little flurry of small non keeper bass on the jerkbaits. I lost a decent 2.5 to 3 pounder that jumped and threw it back at us. But nothing fast...nothing really big. When the sun came out for a little bit, we started crappie fishing. We marked a lot of fish on the depth finder...just couldn't get them to hit good. Put one keeper White in the boat...had a few short strikes. Then fish started breaking all at the back of the boat. I thought they were stripe/white bass at first...threw a crankbait in there and hooked up really fast. Ended up being a chunky 2.5 lb LM. It was a whole school of largemouth working shad on top. Only lasted a few seconds and they were gone.
We tried the crappie thing in the creek channels and road beds near WolfT. After that...we headed to the Nuke plant area to try some ledge bass fishing. Didn't really know where to go or what to throw...threw big worms and deep divers. Nothing. Nadda. Started seeing more fish break towards the shallow weedline...ran over there and got into white bass. They were starting to break decent....but would pop up here and then go down...and resurface about 100 yards over from where they were. You'd drive yourself crazy chasing them. This is about the time the storm came up. We headed back to the WolfT bridge and sit under it til the storm came through. Dad caught a few little crappie while sitting under the bridge. No keepers. Went back out after the storm...back to the weed edges where we had first started. Fish were breaking there too...never did get to catch one of them though...they were always too far out of reach. I suspect they were white bass too. Then we started catching a few fish on the jerkbaits....all were black crappie in about 6 or 7 feet of water on the weed edges. We caught 3 and lost a couple more. All keepers. Threw them all back.
All together...I think we had 6 largemouth. Only two would have kept that we got in the boat. 4 keeper crappie, 3 throw backs. SLOW day on the lake...but it beats a good day at work any day of the week.
