Should be some good posts from Chick Lake in the next month

[whywecatchsomany]

You Largemouth guys should see some good posts from us in the next few weeks. We have a little secret spot on Chick Lake that usually heats up about now. We fish it for about 3 hours or so and it is not unusual for us to catch anywhere from 20-40 fish a trip. Year before last, we had one trip where we caught 50 some odd largemouth, spot, smallmouth in one 3 hour trip.

Sheer numbers aside, in the past two years, from this spot, we have landed numerous largemouth in the 5lb class, one around 7lbs and last year I lipped one for WHENWEGOIN that was the biggest largemouth I had ever seen to date that was probably a little over 8lbs, BEAUTIFUL.

We will be sure to take the camera with us this year and hopefully we will have some good pics to show.

 

[whenwegoin]

And by the way, we catch them on....jigs.

 

[DHaun]

Yes, please be sure to take camera and take plenty of pics. Also be sure to leave the lure in their mouth when you take the pics so we can see these jigs you guys are using! emoCool

 

[polo-dog]

It sounds like you guys fish the power plant. I don't want to find your exact spot but I would like to find similar. Did you find the spot by searching, did someone tell you about it, or do you think that you just "lucked" onto it? Most of the consistent spots that I have seem to be ones that persons tell me about or I feel that I just get lucky and trip overt them. I would expect that with your "spot" being hot this time of year that it is on a winter pattern. I would guess that it's somewhere along the drop in front of Sequoyah but I am curious about how you go about fishing the area. Is it, like the river below the dam, a high flow area? Or would you say that it's on a classic prespawn pattern? I'm just curious. I'm just looking for basics, not specifics.

 

[whenwegoin]

This spot is not the power plant. No boat needed for the spot we will be fishing in the very near future. It will also be at night. Our "power plant" action will be a little later in the spring and summer. Watching the depth finder is the key at the power plant. A lot of boats fish it. Watch them, too. Current is good at the plant as well. Either water flowing through the dam or the plant generated current.

 

[polo-dog]

No boat, huh? I'll have to check the maps and see if I can figure this one out. Do you have to have special permission to fish it from the shore? Most if not all of the property out there on the lake is private.

 

[whenwegoin]

Yes it is a private area from shore. It can be fished from a boat, but some of the places are tough from a boat.

 

[ranman]

tease.

 

[CouchTater]

ranman - 2/2/2006 12:36 PM

tease.

emoUpsmile emoUpsmile emoUpsmile emoUpsmile
Good one...emoBigsmile

 

[whywecatchsomany]

Ranman, not trying to tease you guys at all, but I had to get special permission to fish the area and promised that I would not tell anyone of the exact location, But the pattern is shallow -medium depth water sloping quickly into good deep water of 20ft or so.

 

[jason]

Booker T. has that kind of action in late February to mid-March.

 

[whywecatchsomany]

Jason, I know Booker T fairly well and yes I bet it would be good also. This spot is just perfect spawning and pre-spawning habitat, totally protected from any northerly winds. I think the northern banks will usually always be better during winter and early spring as they are only subject to the warmer southerly winds and will usually warm quicker than southern banks that are exposed to north wind all the time.