Memorial Day on the Chick, 5/29.Jmax

[Jmax]

Decided with all the nuts on the lakes I would go here by the house so when they came out I could easily go home without far to drive. I started on the main lake today since the water was so smooth and like glass. I fished the riprap along and around the wolf to start. I caught several slick LM and small Kenducts as well as two keeper Kentucks all on a spook Jr. I was there early a little before daylight and left that area after around thirty minutes. I than went up the Wolf to an area I have been marking a lot of shad. I was working docks and caught around a dozen all on the spook again with most of them hitting in about 6 to 10 feet off the docks. Caught one very nice LM close to three. Tried a crank but they would not touch it. The bait of the morning was for sure the spook. When the sun broke they stopped hitting the top water. Went way back into the back sloughs I love so well and start fishing a worm and managed several slicks on it, the zoom pumkin seed with red flakes. I did have a unusal thing happen that was different, as I went across a point where the water was only a couple feet deep I must have pushed out a school of small shad. Next thing I know the bass just out from the point started blowing up on them. They would not touch the spook or worm so I switched to a white spinner bait and caught about 8 in a row and saw them hitting the spinner bait just under the water about a foot. I really liked being able to see them hit, had one big one hit at it, looked to be around four but he didn't take it and a smaller one got it right after he missed it. The action lasted only about fifteen minutes and they stopped. I tried it again and was able to get two more on the second pass across the point.emoThumbsup I than moved back out into the main lake and worked the islands around Island Cove and managed two more on a worm and missed two others. All in all not a bad day, I left around one when the traffic got too heavy for me.emoCool Jmax

 

[fisherpal2k]

Good report Jmax. Sounds like a good day even tho it was slow. Thanks for the info and the report.

 

[Davo]

Sounds like a great day on the water. I love it when the bass get into a feeding frenzy. I hooked a small one on a Sammy yesterday and was just playing with him when another bass attacked the lure and got hooked as well. Once 2 are on they pretty much just give up and there were plenty of others swarming those 2. Neither had any real size but fun just the same.

 

[Jmax]

I know what you mean Davo, but not always. I had one this year that sounds like a big fish story but I swear it happened. Back when the spawn was on had about a five lber hit a spook and was trying to play her in. She was on the back hook and didn't look to be hooked all that well but I was by myself and trying to slow her down before I got the net. She was going back and forth on the side of the boat when one about two hit the spook in her mouth and got hooked on the front hook.emoEek Well you can already figure out the rest of the story, she pulled free and I caught the two lber.emoBang Most people I told just told me that it was probably the same fish and it just looked bigger in the water but I saw the whole thing in slow motion. Something just told me I was going to loose that fish and it happened.emoAngry Jmax