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Dec 19
Thursday I went out from 9am-2pm by myself for a little quite fishing. I launched the boat at Jefferson Springs boat ramp and quickly
realized the water was up a few inches and at 56 degrees. I made my first run up towards the East and West Fork stopping at a few bluff wall/mud flat transitions.
Casting a black 3/8oz Hoppy’s Tally Wacker and a Heddon sexy spook, I received zero bites around the boulder rock transitions. I tried a Hoppys
Rattlin Brush Bug in dark green, brown, and black with a green Paca Chunk to the holes and gaps in the bluff walls too….nada.Next I fished the last big flat on the left before the split at the Forks. I picked up my 3/8oz Hoppy’s Tally Wacker buzzbait and started casting to the isolated stumps
and laydowns on top of the flat in 1ft-4ft. After 30 minutes and 8-10 stumps and logs I strapped down my rods and made a move.Just inside the West Fork 1/4 mile I stopped at the blown out bridge. Now the water was ripping through the channel and turning into
chocolate milk. I could barely see my lures in the channel, but it was clear near the bank. I pulled out my Hoppys black/brown 3/8oz Jig
and started pitching to the rocks on the left bank. With my boat in 16ft and pitching into 1ft bringing down the rocks I never got my first bite.
The current was so strong it was carrying my jig. I trolled to the other side of the channel where the bridge rock point comes out from
the bank. I tied on a Rapala DT4 in red craw color and started casting to the point on the up-lake current side. After 5 minutes I hooked
into my first fish in 4ft…..14″ largemouth. On my next cast I hooked into another fish in the same spot, but it
got off. I continued with my crankbait 20 minutes longer without another bite and decided to head down lake.I motored to the back of Spring Creek stopping at the finger coves. The water clarity was much better with 1.5ft visibility at 57 degrees.
There was no current while I started casting a 1/2oz sexy shad chrome Strike King rattle trap. I kept my boat in 4ft made long cast into 1ft
while on the mud flat. Once I reached the end of the mud flat(heading further into the creek) where the boulder rocks started I switched over to my Heddon Sexy Spook. Working my
spook around the rocks in 1ft-3ft I had no luck. After 20 minutes I picked up my crawfish shad rap SR5 and started casting to the rocks and
caught a short bass up against the bluff. I was looking for bigger fish and did not want to spend any more time on the bluff so I idled up
to the mouth of the feeder creek and pulled out my 1/4oz shaky head with 7″ Zoom Trick worm. I parked my boat in 9ft and cast out into the
middle of the channel where is drops from 4ft-9ft(I was facing the 840 bridge casting that direction). After 10 minutes I had
a soft bite and let the fish swim with my worm for a few seconds. I set the hook and felt a GIANT! I could feel the big girl slowly shaking
her head! I fought her to the boat and grabbed her lip and lifted her in……5+lb! I stayed there 15 minutes without another bite and
then continued towards the 840 bridge. When I reached the next boulder rock channel swing I put my boat up against the bank and made
long cast paralleling the bank with my H2O squarebill 3-5ft in shad color pattern. Half way down the bank…..BOOM! I fought another good
fish for 5 seconds before he pulls off! Frustrated that he got off I made another cast and hooked into another bass. This one smaller at 1.5lbs
right on the bank. On the next rock channel swing on the left I continued paralleling the rocks. Just a few cast in and BOOM…3lb! I started
thinking if I was fishing perpendicular to the bank I might not be getting these bites. The next 30 minutes I caught 2 more bass on the same
bank. The entire time I fished back there I had my boat in 2ft-4ft and cast into 1ft against the rocks. It was 2pm and I had to head back to the ramp.All and all, good day! I wish I had more time to continue my pattern. Each spot I fished with the squarebill produced quality bass.
It looks like the weather is going to be in the 50-70 the next 7 days so I will continue with these pattern next time out.
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