jonathanr, Chick, Bass, 11/18/17, Me and brothers

[jonathanr]

Took a couple boats up to the chick To try some fall fishing. We ended up catching 17 total yesterday out of our boat and brother ended up with about the same, but he had the bag yesterday too. Weighed in right around 18 lbs yesterday for his best five. He got on a hump at the right time and boated all his keepers. All his came on a paddle tail swim bait. We caught fish on a variety of stuff.... fish head spin,mcstick jerkbait and echo crank bait. Key was something with a little bit of green back for us. Found an enormous amount of bait in the back of the areas we fished right beside the nuclear plant and behind skull island, but those fish had a buffet and would not touch anything. Really frustrating seeing good fish just bust shad all day and you can’t get em!! In some cases, you could pull right up in the bait balls and see the bass right beneath them. Seems like with as much bait the bass have to eat this fall, should make for some healthy fish. Once we found areas where the bait didn’t seem to be so thick, we could catch fish. All in all, one of our best trips and one of my best fall fishing ventures.

 

[porthos33]

Thanks for the report! How deep was the hump you were fishing? I think if we had a shad kill this winter it would be easier to catch those bass.

 

[jonathanr]

Hump was about two ft deep on top. It was inside the opening of one of the pockets we fished above Chester frost. The gulls were diving all around that area so that tipped him off to try it.

 

[jsb]

They are definitely feeding. The 5lber I caught yesterday looked like it was ready to spawn it was so fat. It sounds like you and your brothers had a good day. It's been tough on some of us lately.