Thursday, April 23, 2020

Jerkbait Bite Starting?

2.22.20

Nancy and I got out for a quick afternoon trip on Keowee.

In the Crow Creek mouth we managed 4 spots and on catfish.

The cool thing is that I caught 3 spots on a ghost white Bass Pro shop jerk bait on offshore humps.

Maybe it's time for this bite to get going!

Water temperature was in the high 60's.

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Up The Seneca River

4.17.20

Nancy and I fished Keowee today.  The guv opened the boat ramps today.

We fished down around the skimmer wall with only one little guy to our credit.

Headed up to Crow Creek and it got better real fast.

Caught fish on wind blown banks and points.  One point at the intersection of Crow and the Seneca river yielded 2 nice 3 pound spots on the hulastick.

We went up to a sandy pocket by Falls Creek Ramp to eat lunch and I saw a tree in the water I had never fished.  I threw Mikey Jr. over it and kablam a largemouth inhaled it.  A great fight ensued but we finally got her to the boat with only one hook keeping her buttoned up.

It was 21.5" long and 4.35 lbs.



We ended up with 16 fish but you had to work at it.


Down Lake Hartwell Trip due to Chinese Flu

4.6.20

Nancy and I went down to Hartwell since the guv closed all the boat ramps due to the virus.
The Corps of Engineers told the state to go F themselves and kept their ramps open.
We put in at Hatton Ford.
We fished Weldon Island out front off the ramp and up the Tugaloo.
Caught some fish on the ned rig around the islands and I caught this good spot on a JT 95 on a road bed at the island.



We then headed up the Tugaloo and put together a pattern of hitting rocky knobs and casting a Bill Norman crank bait in chartreuse shad and the ned rig.

Caught a bunch of 2 lb fish.

Pretty good day for not being on Hartwell in about 20 years.