Won another Bassin fools tourney

11.18.19

Here is a little write up of our recent tourney.  Caught fish in all ways, drop shot, worm, JT 95 caught the 17" one.  Just junk fishing.

It was a raw / wet / cold morning but 5 boats weathered the conditions. The 10 "Fools" ended up catching 31 legal bass and 10 shorts. Two teams caught limits. The team of Bart & Chandler won by catching their bass on worms & dropshot. The big bass pot was won by Larry with 17 1/4' just edging out Chandler who had a 17". The best 3 bass catch was a tie between Bart & Chandler at 47 1/4" each. There was  a variety of lures that caught fish with spoons catching about half of them and worms / dropshot / crankbaits catching the rest. The sad tale of today goes to Mitch who made a cast that just kept on going and going and going, another rod and reel lost.  What the heck it's just $$$$. Results by teams as follows:

• 1st place Bart & Bill with 79 1/2" (16", 16", 15 1/4", 15 1/4", 17"), also had 14", 14", 14", 15", 15". On worms & dropshot. 17" on JT95.
• 2nd place Dennis & Tom with 74 1/2" (15 1/4", 14 1/4", 15 1/2", 15", 14 1/2"), also had 13 1/2", 14", 14 1/2', 14" & 3 shorts. On spoons.
• 3rd place Mark & Gary with 58 1/2" (16 1/2", 14 1/2", 14 1/4", 13 1/4'), also had 12 1/4" and 2 shorts. On Spoons.
• 4th place Mitch & Garrison with 52 3/4" (13 1/4", 13 1/4", 14 1/4", 12'), plus a short. On crankbaits.
• 5th place Larry & Doug with 44 1/4" (17 1/4", 12 1/2", 14 1/2"), plus 3 shorts and 4 lost "lure with no hooks Larry?".

Congratulations to the winners. Next up area c on 11/25.

Hernando Lake Cold And Windy

11.13.19

Visited my bro after watching the space launch Monday.

We went over to Hernando Lake and were greeted with wind and cold (for Florida) weather.

We still managed to scrape up a few keeper fish on rattletraps.  And one fell for JT 95.

Not a bad little trip.

I Love The Fall

Fishing is hot right now.  Here is one of my posts to our local club.

11.5.19

Fished this morning with my KA derby partner from 8 to 11:30 AM.  We launched at Falls Creek ramp and fished north to the Jocassee Dam.

I punched in a lot of numbers to fish today in areas we have never been in.  The idea was to find some drop shot/spoon fish.  We never did find any large concentrations anywhere we looked.

The first ditch had lots of shad and one little spot came aboard after eating a Yahoo jig n shad.  We were looking in the 55’ of water column.

A couple of more stops yielded nothing.  In fact the depthfinder was clear in the majority of the areas we worked, no shad, no bass.

We finally headed up to the base of the dam and my partner caught his first fish on a drop shot that he had ever caught near the creek channel.  And it was a beautiful spot 19 1/2” with broad shoulders. 

He also caught another one in that area but it was only around 10”.  I spooned up a small one there also, but it wouldn’t measure.

We left wanting to look at one other cove above the 11 bridge and I connected with a 18” largemouth that was enticed by a Zman Hulastick in The Deal on a jig head in 30’ of water near some structure in a creek cut.

That was it for us today.  Few bites but a couple of quality fish.

The water was very clear, and the temp was down to 72 degrees.  Pretty calm conditions today and a little rain shower as we put in. Seemed like a good day to whack’em but quantity was not our strong suit today.

Dan with his first ever drop shot bass.  He is ruined.

Nice presfishing spot on top

Good largemouth on Zman Hulastickz in The Deal

Another prefishing spot on a hulastickz

This is fall as our hickory tree in the front yard is showing out

Hunter and Ben came over last weekend for a bass/golf tourney.  We really caught them dropshotting in Crow Creek.  Here is Ben with a long spot.

I then fished the Keowee Anglers tourney and my partner Dan and I won with 88" of 5 spotted bass.

We caught over twenty in one hole in Crooked Creek and then caught two nice topwater spots around noon on a submerged island north of highway 11 as Duke was pumping water up to Jocassee.  A great day which triggers my bass thumb rash!