I fished today solo from the Jocassee Dam south to the Highway 11 bridge from 8:30 to 11:30 AM.
I haven’t been up there in a while and wanted to see if there was a schooling bite. As I motored under the bridge I noticed that no water was moving, which seems to kill any schooling activity…and sure enough none was found.
I started at the base of the dam throwing small swimbaits and worms but no bites occurred.
Motored down to the main channel checking for a deeper bite and bumped into a school of bass that were in 55’ of water. I managed a 15” spot and lost another of similar size at the boat on a drop shot with a Reins 4” bubble shaker in morning dawn.
Saw a lot of wood structure up the bank and started throwing the Evergreen DT95 near the bluffs with wood. Caught two small largemouth that might have measured but wasn’t worth the effort to lay them on the board.
Headed back toward the highway 11 bridge fishing areas I have never fished, looking for rock and deepwater.
Stopped at a high spot near the river edge and started throwing the DT 95. Landed three and missed another. 2 were 15” and one was 16”. Expanding that are and looking deeper I came upon some unusual structure that had a drop from 40’ to 60’ and started dropshotting. That worked well as 3 spots came to the boat. One 13” and the others at 14”. I dragged a Keitech swing impact swimbait on a jighead through the structure and caught a 17” fat spot.
Left those fish and finished at the bridge where I managed one baby spot on the JT 95.
It was flat calm up there today with extremely clear water. Near the dam I could see bottom and my depthfinder was reading 15’.
The water temp at the dam was 72 and the temp was 74 at the bridge.
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