[fishytx]

Not one of my better days on this lake, but okay I suppose. Got on the lake around noon and everyone we spoke to that were leaving the lake said the bite had turned off. Some folks said they didn’t even get a bite. But what the heck, since we were there we had to at least give it shot. Started out real show at first but picked up as the day went on. We only managed to get 9 fish in the boat with two of them in the 3 lb. range, the rest were around two. Caught a few on T/R lizards, and the rest were caught on cranks around some timber in 4 to 12 feet. They slammed the crank baits. And of course it was just another windy day out there. We moved around a bit, but we were never able get onto a good school of feeding fish.  

But I needed to get of the house for a little bit, and that I did. Catching a few fish was great too.

 

[Firefly]

Re: Fayette 2.17.09

Man it seems the trees out there has really been the hook up. Is that pretty typical, I've only fished Fayette three times??

 

[bassfantastic]

Re: Fayette 2.17.09

Always nice to be on the water Doug. Hope all is well with you. Look forward to seeing you soon.

Jim

 

[fishytx]

Re: Fayette 2.17.09

Man it seems the trees out there has really been the hook up. Is that pretty typical, I've only fished Fayette three times??

No, not really. But when the wind is out of the east, or north, then the timber line is about the best place to get out of the wind. And the guy I took fishing yesterday likes to fish with plastic, so I tried to keep him in some areas where he could do so.

The fish in the timber were holding so tight yesterday that you had to bump em in the dang nose to get em to bite. After I had fished with plastic for several hours in the timber and I was only able to yield two fish, I decided to pull out a 6 to 8 foot running fire tiger crank and bump as many limbs and stumps as I could to see if I could trigger a strike. Low and behold my friend, that was the ticket. They hammered that crank bait. One strike was so strong that the drag was singing for three seconds after the initial hit. He must have hit that thing head on because it almost pulled the darn rod out of my hand. That was cool though. Man I’ll take strikes like that one any day. I ended up with six on the crank bait.

For years, I would have neverr considered chunking any of my cranks into heavy timber, but I do it all the time now that I have a tool to get these things back. Now when I get hung up, I just attach the bait retriever onto my line and send it down to get the bait. Really good tool to keep in your boat. Heck, I even take it with me when ever I fish out of someone else’s boat.

 

[fishytx]

Re: Fayette 2.17.09

I did take one snap shot yesterday. My buddy had the first hook up and as he was about to release this fish, I said oh wait a minute, shoot man, let me get a picture of this thing before you let it go. According to the dang stories we have heard so far, this may end up being the only catch of the day, so I took a couple pictures of it.

This was about the average size we were catching, just a tad over two pounds. In fact, yesterdays experience really wasn’t even worth posting, but I believe in posting bad fishing reports as well as good ones. You never know, someone may get a little something out of it.

 

[Firefly]

Re: Fayette 2.17.09

thanks for the info. you know I've been looking at those bait retreivers and figured they were a gimmick.....good to know.
see you on the water

 

[Texas Hawgs]

Re: Fayette 2.17.09

Good deal fishy. I've got a lure knocker tied on to a Shimano Curado sitting on a busted in half Kistler Helium rod. That's the best use of a Kistler I've found. ;D I've saved probably $4-500 worth of crankbaits and even some jigs, etc. with it. Well worth the $3 and change at Academy for it. You can add some dangling chains to it too for maximum use.

 

[davec]

Re: Fayette 2.17.09

I actually went fishing at Fayette Mondya and here's how we did...

We got a couple on red craw and American Shad lipless cranks in about 2 feet of water early in the day, biggest went 4.5 Couldn't find any deep (out to about 15 feet.) In the afternoon we were able to start catching some good slot fish on wacky rigged Senkos along the reeds with some deep water close by. Dark colors with a BRIGHT chartreuse tail seemed to work best when the sun peeked out. When the sun went away, so did the bites.

 

[fishytx]

Re: Fayette 2.17.09

Good deal fishy. I've got a lure knocker tied on to a Shimano Curado sitting on a busted in half Kistler Helium rod. That's the best use of a Kistler I've found. ;D I've saved probably $4-500 worth of crankbaits and even some jigs, etc. with it. Well worth the $3 and change at Academy for it. You can add some dangling chains to it too for maximum use.

Since you brought up this subject, I’ll go ahead an post a few pics of my little set up. Garcia 5500-C reel on an old All-Star rod, reeled with 50lb. test Power-Pro braid.


This is how I store it, slip the rings over the butt end of the rod and tighten.

This is just a view of the chains that help grab the hooks.

A picture of the All-Star T-40X rod that I cut off. Man, you couldn’t even give me another All-Star rod. I have no faith in this brand what so ever. I’ve owned three, and every one of them turned out to be a piece of JUNK. And I paid some big bucks for these things back in the day.

 

[fishytx]

Re: Fayette 2.17.09

I actually went fishing   at Fayette Mondya and here's how we did...

Dark colors with a BRIGHT chartreuse tail seemed to work best when the sun peeked out. When the sun went away, so did the bites.

Man there wasn’t much sun that day. I remember it warming up for a very short period of time and the next thing I noticed, it had clouded back up and started getting cooler.

 

[davec]

Re: Fayette 2.17.09

Man there wasn’t much sun that day. I remember it warming up for a very short period of time and the next thing I noticed, it had clouded back up and started getting cooler.

Nope sure wasn't but between 3 & 5 it was out more than the rest of the day.

 

[fishytx]

My bad, I put the wrong date on this post. I had it posted for todays date, but I was on the water yesterday the 16th.

I didn’t catch this mistake, a friend did. He called me up just a few minutes ago and asked me if I went fishing today? I told him no, I went yesterday, why. Any how, that’s how I found out.

Sorry