Ronnie Garrison
Well-known member
Sunday - February 7, 2010 - Day 37 - one day missed
Flint River Bass Club First Tournament 2010 -
Lake Sinclair, Fished 7 AM - 3 PM
Water temp 44 - 55, warm water was around steam plant
Air cold and cloudy
Started on riprap for an hour without a bite. Water as muddy as I have ever seen - looked like cappuccino. No bites
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Fished some areas around the marina with no bites. Lots of boats working the area - two fairly big tournaments - 30 boats each - went out of marina this morning.
Worked docks, grass beds, wood cover. Fished jig and pig, crankbait and jig head worm. Nothing
Ran down to a rocky bank I like where I hoped the warm water from the steam plant would help. It was no warmer but was a little bit clearer - could see my crankbait down about four inches. Nothing hit around the docks and rocks.
As I got ready to leave I remembered another tough tournament where I got one keeper weighing 12 ounces and came in second - it was another winter tournament and there were three bass weighed in - winner had one weighing 14 ounces, mine and a 9 ounce bass was third!
Ran to the mouth of the warm water creek and it was slightly clearer and 52 degrees. On about my third cast on a clay I hooked and landed a keeper 12.1 inches long - glad to put it in the livewell at 10:30.
Fished on up that bank and got a bump on a jig head worm in a brush pile and landed a bass barely under 12 inches - hated to let it go, but it would not touch the 12 inch line!
At noon I ran back to the bridge riprap - feeding period started then. Tried a variety of baits but no hits.
At 1:30 went back where I had caught the first fish and worked it. At 2 I had worked up to a rocky area and missed three hits - one picked up the jig head worm but I missed it, then felt two thump it but no hookups.
At 2:30 I had worked further up the bank and felt a thump and landed a solid 13 inch keeper. Two!
No more hits by 2:50 so I headed to weighin.
Winner had 2 weighing 2.9 and big fish at 1.83. My two weighed all of 1.85 and got second. Third was one at 1.22 and fourth was one at 1.08. That was it, no more fish caught.
Flint River Bass Club First Tournament 2010 -
Lake Sinclair, Fished 7 AM - 3 PM
Water temp 44 - 55, warm water was around steam plant
Air cold and cloudy
Started on riprap for an hour without a bite. Water as muddy as I have ever seen - looked like cappuccino. No bites
For the boards that pull posts and place them on their sites, visit me at http://fishing.about.com - for those here I apologize for the spam.
Fished some areas around the marina with no bites. Lots of boats working the area - two fairly big tournaments - 30 boats each - went out of marina this morning.
Worked docks, grass beds, wood cover. Fished jig and pig, crankbait and jig head worm. Nothing
Ran down to a rocky bank I like where I hoped the warm water from the steam plant would help. It was no warmer but was a little bit clearer - could see my crankbait down about four inches. Nothing hit around the docks and rocks.
As I got ready to leave I remembered another tough tournament where I got one keeper weighing 12 ounces and came in second - it was another winter tournament and there were three bass weighed in - winner had one weighing 14 ounces, mine and a 9 ounce bass was third!
Ran to the mouth of the warm water creek and it was slightly clearer and 52 degrees. On about my third cast on a clay I hooked and landed a keeper 12.1 inches long - glad to put it in the livewell at 10:30.
Fished on up that bank and got a bump on a jig head worm in a brush pile and landed a bass barely under 12 inches - hated to let it go, but it would not touch the 12 inch line!
At noon I ran back to the bridge riprap - feeding period started then. Tried a variety of baits but no hits.
At 1:30 went back where I had caught the first fish and worked it. At 2 I had worked up to a rocky area and missed three hits - one picked up the jig head worm but I missed it, then felt two thump it but no hookups.
At 2:30 I had worked further up the bank and felt a thump and landed a solid 13 inch keeper. Two!
No more hits by 2:50 so I headed to weighin.
Winner had 2 weighing 2.9 and big fish at 1.83. My two weighed all of 1.85 and got second. Third was one at 1.22 and fourth was one at 1.08. That was it, no more fish caught.
