polo-dog
Well-known member
I fished for a very short while Monday night. I was planning on hitting some deep areas in Harrison bay with some threadfins of the year. I threw once and had a couple hundred baits. The middle of Wolftever creek is full of shad right now. I was heading towards the bay when my outboard quit on me. Just died and would only sputter but not start. I was only about a mile from my takeoff so decided to fish where I was and on the way back. The shad were thick at the Wolftever fishing club tires. Caught a few stripe(yellow bass) outside the tires under different balls of bait. I was marking lots of fish under the bait balls that I went over. Also caught a couple of good crappies. Most of the fish hit the baits on the lower bait. I had two baits on the line, one at about 6-8 inches and one about 18 inches above that. I don't think that I caught one on the upper bait. Cast some at the tires but there didn't seem to be any surface activity and no fish that would bite near the tires. I then hit a bank where the channel sweeps near the bank. On the way there I was marking good sized fish on every stump that I saw with my depthfinder all in about 14-16 feet of water. When I got to the bank there were tightly packed balls of bait that were huge! I threw my chug bug up to the bank and had three hits on it on my first cast from good fish but they all hit short. No more hits on the chug bug but did catch a small largemouth on a rattletrap yo-yo'd in about 4-6 feet of water. Flipped a spring just after it got dark but no strikes. Used the trolling motor to get home and didn't fish any more. Just kept my foot on the button. I planned to change the plugs and fuel filter the next morning but was pleasantly surprised to find out that the problem was that my gas guage went bad and I was out of gas. I'm back in business without a trip to the shop-PTL!
