Water temp. 65-68 depending on what area.
Light breeze out of north changing to east south east.
2 hour period of real calm water, no breeze, looked like glass -- scary for Fayette, no bites.
Water clarity in a couple of slues on the west side of lake were dingy, little off color, slow bite.
Water level is still around 2 feet low.
Got on water around 10am, fished timber and stumps shallow. Caught some pretty decent fish on cranks, spinners, and plastic. Shallow bite slowed way down, so we moved into the deeper water around some timber and picked up several on plastic and cranks.
Between 1pm and 4pm it became very difficult to find a bite, real slow. Did a lot of running and gunning during this time frame. Back seat partner was ready to go home, so I took him back to the ramp, but I stayed.
Clouds out of the west began to smother the skies. As the lighting dimmed around 5pm, I went back over to the rip rap area and there were fish all over my graph. I began throwing a top water plug. At first the bite was a little slow as the fish were just beginning to stage up shallow to feed. By 5:30pm they were up shallow looking for a meal, and the top water action went ballistic. Weird thing though, if a fish missed the bate and I threw back into that area, I never had one come back and look at it again. You had to keep moving forwards fishing nothing but virgin water. We caught 40 plus fish, but the best five may have only gone around 16 - 17 pounds.
I had another buddy and his Mom out there who also caught 30 to 40. Their largest fish was 5.5. My largest was a little over 4, our average fish was between 2-½ to 3 pounds. My uncle likes to throw nothing but plastic these days, but I threw a variety of bates and caught fish on everything. So over all, I would say this trip was a fun one. Now there was a two hour period in there where I never once got a bite and I almost packed it up and went home, but I’m glad I stuck around for the top water action.
Light breeze out of north changing to east south east.
2 hour period of real calm water, no breeze, looked like glass -- scary for Fayette, no bites.
Water clarity in a couple of slues on the west side of lake were dingy, little off color, slow bite.
Water level is still around 2 feet low.
Got on water around 10am, fished timber and stumps shallow. Caught some pretty decent fish on cranks, spinners, and plastic. Shallow bite slowed way down, so we moved into the deeper water around some timber and picked up several on plastic and cranks.
Between 1pm and 4pm it became very difficult to find a bite, real slow. Did a lot of running and gunning during this time frame. Back seat partner was ready to go home, so I took him back to the ramp, but I stayed.
Clouds out of the west began to smother the skies. As the lighting dimmed around 5pm, I went back over to the rip rap area and there were fish all over my graph. I began throwing a top water plug. At first the bite was a little slow as the fish were just beginning to stage up shallow to feed. By 5:30pm they were up shallow looking for a meal, and the top water action went ballistic. Weird thing though, if a fish missed the bate and I threw back into that area, I never had one come back and look at it again. You had to keep moving forwards fishing nothing but virgin water. We caught 40 plus fish, but the best five may have only gone around 16 - 17 pounds.
I had another buddy and his Mom out there who also caught 30 to 40. Their largest fish was 5.5. My largest was a little over 4, our average fish was between 2-½ to 3 pounds. My uncle likes to throw nothing but plastic these days, but I threw a variety of bates and caught fish on everything. So over all, I would say this trip was a fun one. Now there was a two hour period in there where I never once got a bite and I almost packed it up and went home, but I’m glad I stuck around for the top water action.
