occasionalfisher
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Fished Weiss in a tournament Saturday. Water temps have dropped, was 72 when we started and got up to 75 before we took out, lake was about 1.75 feet low and water was muddy. We finished 3rd with 8.85, only paid two places, so we were first looser.
When we started the wind was really blowing hard and the first place we fished was a main lake hump that just barely had any water over the top of it. there were foot tall rollers along with boat waves on that stop and while there was a ton of shad we only managed to catch two white bass and two non-keeper spots. Fished the hump with sq bill, trap, spinnerbait and I attempted a topwater but with that much surface action only threw it a few times. After exploring along a line of docks and two other points in the area we moved to a pocket that was better protected.
Once inside this deep pocket we found some protected form the wind areas and on my second cast caught a small keeper largemouth of a walking topwater. Fish was located inside a small cut off the main pocket and could not have been in more than 2 feet of water. Fished topwater down a flat bank with scatterd laydowns and stumps. My dad caught a couple of shorts on a whopper plopper then off the end of a tree I got a better fish to show itself on the topwater, but it just missed it. We worked back up the flat with different baits, I started throwing a spinnerbait and almost immedialty starting getting bites, but they were all non-keeper spots and largemouth. My dad picked up one small keeper and after retracing our steps up the flat, we worked out toward the main lake some before crossing over to the side of the pocket with more docks. Fished moving baits around docks, then swapped to worms and on a small point found a bunch of fish. Caught multiple non-keeper or small keeper spots on the area on worms. After catching about 6 combined fish, my dad suggested I throw the spinnerbait around the are, first cast catch a 2 pound largemouth. We moved down the row of docks until we got to an area with two docks and about 15 brushpiles and found largemouths schooling. I caught multiple fish there on a spinnerbait while my dad struggled with fish bumping and missing the trap and sq bill. We finished our limit and culled once there before moving even farther back in the pocket. There were tons of shad and fish hitting them but most of those fish were small spots as I caught a few more on the spinnerbait.
The wind has lessoned so we ran back to the main lake hump we started on and after coving most of thr hump with the spinnerbait I caught our biggest fish of the day a 3 pound largemouth. But after fishing that area for a while and moving up the main lake point near there no more keepers so we ran back to that pocket and caught a few more fish, but as the wind died so did the bite for us. Once it quit about 2:20 we didn't catch another fish. We headed back toward the ramp and hit one other place that normally we can catch some fish, but nothing Saturday. Finished with 8.85, 8.91 was second, 11 something won, and big fish was 3.95 largemouth for the tourney.
Was a much better day than the last few trips to Weiss for us, as the water cools it will get better, but I need to find out where Mike Carter is fishing to catch some of those spots he is showing pics of.
When we started the wind was really blowing hard and the first place we fished was a main lake hump that just barely had any water over the top of it. there were foot tall rollers along with boat waves on that stop and while there was a ton of shad we only managed to catch two white bass and two non-keeper spots. Fished the hump with sq bill, trap, spinnerbait and I attempted a topwater but with that much surface action only threw it a few times. After exploring along a line of docks and two other points in the area we moved to a pocket that was better protected.
Once inside this deep pocket we found some protected form the wind areas and on my second cast caught a small keeper largemouth of a walking topwater. Fish was located inside a small cut off the main pocket and could not have been in more than 2 feet of water. Fished topwater down a flat bank with scatterd laydowns and stumps. My dad caught a couple of shorts on a whopper plopper then off the end of a tree I got a better fish to show itself on the topwater, but it just missed it. We worked back up the flat with different baits, I started throwing a spinnerbait and almost immedialty starting getting bites, but they were all non-keeper spots and largemouth. My dad picked up one small keeper and after retracing our steps up the flat, we worked out toward the main lake some before crossing over to the side of the pocket with more docks. Fished moving baits around docks, then swapped to worms and on a small point found a bunch of fish. Caught multiple non-keeper or small keeper spots on the area on worms. After catching about 6 combined fish, my dad suggested I throw the spinnerbait around the are, first cast catch a 2 pound largemouth. We moved down the row of docks until we got to an area with two docks and about 15 brushpiles and found largemouths schooling. I caught multiple fish there on a spinnerbait while my dad struggled with fish bumping and missing the trap and sq bill. We finished our limit and culled once there before moving even farther back in the pocket. There were tons of shad and fish hitting them but most of those fish were small spots as I caught a few more on the spinnerbait.
The wind has lessoned so we ran back to the main lake hump we started on and after coving most of thr hump with the spinnerbait I caught our biggest fish of the day a 3 pound largemouth. But after fishing that area for a while and moving up the main lake point near there no more keepers so we ran back to that pocket and caught a few more fish, but as the wind died so did the bite for us. Once it quit about 2:20 we didn't catch another fish. We headed back toward the ramp and hit one other place that normally we can catch some fish, but nothing Saturday. Finished with 8.85, 8.91 was second, 11 something won, and big fish was 3.95 largemouth for the tourney.
Was a much better day than the last few trips to Weiss for us, as the water cools it will get better, but I need to find out where Mike Carter is fishing to catch some of those spots he is showing pics of.
