After Last Week's Warm Temps, Snowstorm, Flood They Are Still Trying To Hit The Bank

2/12

Fished solo today from 10:30 AM to 3:30 PM.  Put in at High Falls ramp and fished from the skimmer wall to the 130 bridge.  The water has some color to it, don’t know what else to call it, but very fishable.

Due to the cloudy water I concentrated on shallow fishing.  The water temp was in the 59 degree range.  There was a slight breeze but later it slicked off.

A good shallow water bite is out there.  And I caught them on a variety of baits.  I only caught one fish in water deeper than 10’.  Lobbing a texas rigged dropshot with a zoom trick worm worked well around docks in shallow pockets.  I caught five this way and 2 on consecutive casts to the same dock. They were nice fish with the smallest being 15 1/2” up to 18”.

In between pockets I threw a Bill Norman deep little N in chartreuse blue  on rocks and had a really nice Largemouth in the 4 lb. category get off as I tried to net it.

I also caught a 16” spot on a tokyo rig with a Zoom Z Craw Jr. in some planted brush in a shallow pocket.

Hit the rip rap at the 130 bridge to finish the day and caught a small keeper spot on the crankbait and another 15 1/2” spot on a Keitech swimbait.  

Couldn’t get bit on a jerkbait.

So 8 fish got in the boat and missed a few others.  The quality is really picking up.

Warm Temps Brought Them Shallow

2.3.20

Water temp 60 degrees

A fellow KA and I launched from the Keowee Town Ramp today at noon and fished for 4 hours.

We headed to Crow Creek and found fish waiting for us in 50’ of water, but after missing 2 on drops shots and then just watching them follow our baits up and down we decided to abandon the deep water bite and head to south facing docks that were absorbing the warm sun in coves off the main channel.

The bite started quickly as the first fish came aboard and was 17” long but with big shoulders.  Then a 15 and a half inch came to the boat.  Every boat dock had fish on them. They were positioned on the back float of the docks in shallow water.

We ended up with 8 spots and 1 largemouth.  All except the first 2 were buck bass measured between 12 and 14”.

All fish were caught on a Zman Hulastickz rigged on a 1/4 oz. jig head.  

The water temp was 60 degrees in Crow.

Needless to say it was a nice day on the lake with temps in the 70’s and wind was calm turning to windy. 

Had this little guy eat a dropshot and had a huge shad still in his throat.

These are the docks we were catching them on.