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!