occasionalfisher
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We had a club tourney at Lanier Thursday and it was a typical trip to Lanier for us, caught fish but not enough fish. We finished fourth, or first loser again. Water temps were 73 to 75 and wind blew between 10 and 40 mph in the morning then calmed a bit as the day went on, still had gusts in the 20 mph range and steady 10 to 15 most of the day. Lake was a little low, maybe a foot but almost full and VERY clear.
We put in at the Vanns Tavern ramp and ran up into the creek first thing and fished a point and around some docks. We caught five with three being keepers, two on a spinnerbait and three on topwater. Best fish at that spot came on a big pencil popper but only one ate it and two others missed it. Also lost on on a Sebile swimbait that might have been a keeper. After that little flurry to start the day the bites stopped and we decided to go with our game plan to fish around the main lake islands as we worked down to Six-mile creek.
We ran out of the creek to a main lake island point right int he teeth of the wind. I threw a spinnerbait and my dad threw topwater and a hard swimbait. Every cast out in that wind I was blowing up shad or blue backs but never got a hit around the point and around some trees all the way around to a shoal in the wind. After not getting bit there ran around to a more protected point on the next island. Same results, less wind, but still not hits on a jerkbait, spinnerbait, multiple topwaters and swimbaits.
So we packed up and ran up to Six-Mile creek and went back in there until the creeks narrows up between two points. We fished a point and a flat and while we had two fish slap at topwater no fish. We fished into a long pocket and probably wasted too much time as we went all the way to the back as the wind was blowing into the back of the pocket. We rounded a large multiple slip floating dock and I finally got a fish to eat a topwater to give us our fourth fish, about 2 pounds.
We ran main points and even some shallow flats and while we found some fish schooling we could not get any actual bites.
We moved back to the main lake and fished the backside of an island out of the wind, and while we both got bit on moving baits no hookups.
We ran back to the creek we started in (two-mile I think) and fished all the way tot eh back with moving baits and still no more fish, so we finally pulled out some worms and got a ton of bites and a ton of torn up worms as they were mostly small spots. After moving around multiple times hunting anyplace the wind was not hitting too bad we found a little rocky point that had some bait balled up on it and my dad caught about a 3 pounder on a shakey head while I was too busy losing the tails off my worms. We fished that area for a while then moved across the creek to another rocky point before coming back to where we had caught the last fish. Nothing there but non-keepers this time so we moved across to the mouth of a pocket with manmade rocks on it and found between two boathouses fish schooling right on the rocks in the shade. I caught one out of the schoolers a 3 pound spot and my dad picked up one more about 2 lbs, but it was 2:50 pm by then and had to run in for the weigh-in.
We had 11 and some change, first was 15, second was 14 and third was 12, big fish was about 4 and a half spotted bass. It was nice to find some good fish, but it would have been nicer to find them with an hour left instead of finding them with 5 minutes left to fish. I think if we could have had another hour there we had found good enough fish to win.
We put in at the Vanns Tavern ramp and ran up into the creek first thing and fished a point and around some docks. We caught five with three being keepers, two on a spinnerbait and three on topwater. Best fish at that spot came on a big pencil popper but only one ate it and two others missed it. Also lost on on a Sebile swimbait that might have been a keeper. After that little flurry to start the day the bites stopped and we decided to go with our game plan to fish around the main lake islands as we worked down to Six-mile creek.
We ran out of the creek to a main lake island point right int he teeth of the wind. I threw a spinnerbait and my dad threw topwater and a hard swimbait. Every cast out in that wind I was blowing up shad or blue backs but never got a hit around the point and around some trees all the way around to a shoal in the wind. After not getting bit there ran around to a more protected point on the next island. Same results, less wind, but still not hits on a jerkbait, spinnerbait, multiple topwaters and swimbaits.
So we packed up and ran up to Six-Mile creek and went back in there until the creeks narrows up between two points. We fished a point and a flat and while we had two fish slap at topwater no fish. We fished into a long pocket and probably wasted too much time as we went all the way to the back as the wind was blowing into the back of the pocket. We rounded a large multiple slip floating dock and I finally got a fish to eat a topwater to give us our fourth fish, about 2 pounds.
We ran main points and even some shallow flats and while we found some fish schooling we could not get any actual bites.
We moved back to the main lake and fished the backside of an island out of the wind, and while we both got bit on moving baits no hookups.
We ran back to the creek we started in (two-mile I think) and fished all the way tot eh back with moving baits and still no more fish, so we finally pulled out some worms and got a ton of bites and a ton of torn up worms as they were mostly small spots. After moving around multiple times hunting anyplace the wind was not hitting too bad we found a little rocky point that had some bait balled up on it and my dad caught about a 3 pounder on a shakey head while I was too busy losing the tails off my worms. We fished that area for a while then moved across the creek to another rocky point before coming back to where we had caught the last fish. Nothing there but non-keepers this time so we moved across to the mouth of a pocket with manmade rocks on it and found between two boathouses fish schooling right on the rocks in the shade. I caught one out of the schoolers a 3 pound spot and my dad picked up one more about 2 lbs, but it was 2:50 pm by then and had to run in for the weigh-in.
We had 11 and some change, first was 15, second was 14 and third was 12, big fish was about 4 and a half spotted bass. It was nice to find some good fish, but it would have been nicer to find them with an hour left instead of finding them with 5 minutes left to fish. I think if we could have had another hour there we had found good enough fish to win.
