Looks Like A Pre Spawn Bite Now

1.12.20

Water temp was 64 degrees and sun was out.  Shallow bite was occurring

After the KA meeting Thursday I walked the leisure trail in Keowee Key.  There was a yellow Nitro in the cove fishing and I noticed that they were fishing very shallow and I watched them catch some nice bass very shallow.  I asked them what swimbait they were throwing and the one fellow said “that ain’t no swimbait that’s just a big minner”.  So today me and my friend concentrated on fishing shallow in Stamp Creek and Little River.

We fished from 9:30 to 3:30 and started in the back of Stamp Creek.  That was a mistake as the rain had blown out the area.  All it was good for was planting corn.  We came back out under the wooden bridge and started fishing rocky points.

Fish were on all of them.  We fished shallow rocky points from the wooden bridge to the 183 bridge and caught fish or had bites on all of them. Usually in less than 10 feet of water.  They were eating the Zman HulastickZ on a jig head and a drop shot with a morning dawn Roboworm cast to the shallow points.

We slid into a cove that is know to have spawners and got broken off and lost another nice fish on the roboworm in less than 5 feet of water.

So we started looking in spawning pockets.  We pulled into a pocket south of the 183 bridge and caught 3 nice spots in the 16-17” range off one dock.

Then as we worked out of the cove and threw a Pointer SP 78 at a shallow dock on a clay bank.  A largemouth ate the lure and as I was pulling it in a wolfpack was coming back to the boat of nice fat fish.

My friend dumped his dropshot in as he was netting my fish.  We get my fish in and he is hooked up on one of the wolfpack fish.  Turns out I net his fish with my fish still in the net.  My LM was 17.5”  His spot was 18” and had a big hump in it’s back.

Fished a point further south and caught a 18” spot on the hulastickZ in 40’ of water.  Hit the skimmer wall points and bagged two more fat spots.

One last one came on board in the cove to the south of the skimmer wall on the dropshot in 40’ of water.

We boated 14 spots and one LM  today only one was a small keeper.  The rest were from15"-18”.  

Some really nice pre spawn fish pulled up today.

Water temp was in the low 60’s everywhere we went.

Nice warm day with a slight west wind.

January Bite Hanging In There

1.8.20

Fished today with a fellow KA from 10-3. We met at the High Falls Ramp and were greeted with a brisk west wind and chilly 40 degree temp and clear skies. We idled out and fished the creek cut in front of the park but didn’t see or catch anything.  The water temp there was 58 degrees.

Wanting to check out some other creek cuts and work water in the 60’ range we headed over to the cove by the skimmer wall.  One came on board there on a dropshot but was too short to measure.

Headed to the hot hole and no fish were seen schooling or on the graph.  

Started heading north and fished the creek in front of War Path ramp.  Another non keeper came to the boat on the drop shot.

It was no 12:30 and it was time to head to Crow Creek. Pulled into the back of Crow and immediately started catching fish.  In the next couple of hours we caught 10 spots and the obligatory catfish.  Not slaying them but enough to keep us happy.

The two baits that were working was freestyling with a Damiki rig tipped with a Megabass Hazedong 3” shad and a Zman HulastickZ on a jighead shaking it under the boat.  All of these fish were in the 60’ zone.  The water temp up there was still 61 degrees.  Most fish were in the 14-15”  category and the biggest fish of 16” ate the Damiki rig. Only one fish was a non keeper at this stop.

Saw one other KA up there but he said he had zero luck. Seems that the fish are starting to scatter.  Just gotta keep looking.

End of the Year and New Year's Fish

Holiday season on Lake Keowee

The Christmas/New Year ended the year and started the new year right.

Hunter came in and we whacked them again on drop shots in Crow Creek.

Also caught 6 on a Duo Realis Spybait as the fish were chasing shad on top.

Doubled Up!

Then Nancy and I went out New Years day and caught our good luck spots.  We doubled up also with a spoon and a drop shot.  They were in 60 feet of water near the High Falls ramp.  The water temp was 60 degrees.



Looking forward to 2020 and discover some more bass secrets of Lake Keowe