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Another day on the water. Traffic was amazing this morning. Hardly anyone out. Excellent start to the day.
I wanted to fish the north end of the lake today. I wish there's a launch on the north end of the lake. I hate driving all the way down, only to boat all the way back up.
As I'm boating up, I change my mind and stop at about mid lake on the west side. Since it's still somewhat early, I tried the shallows for a bit. Today, I was rotating between cranks, dropshot, plastic worm and hula.
Took me about 20 mins to find my first fish. Shade side of L-dock with a dropshot in ~5-6' of water. Just a chunky 13" SMB. A couple docks north of that, I spotted a small ~10" SMB holding by the piling. Made a couple of casts towards it but it wasn't interested. Swam way underneath. So I skipped my senko underneath the dock. I notice my line isn't sinking.... I pull on the slack a little bit and I feel weight. Set the hook and BAM! Fish on. Sure doesn't feel like a 10" SMB. It's pulling a little drag and I'm having a hard time pulling it out from underneath the dock with my spinning setup. It's too hard for me to skip with a baitcaster :(.
Anyways, I manage to pull it out from underneath and see it's a pretty decent LMB, BONUS fish. About ~15" @ 2lb 3oz.
So 2 fish in ~30 mins of fishing. Excellent in my book. :o
And then no more for about 2hrs. Ugh. I did spot 2 small SMB in the ~10-12" range cruising or holding by the docks.
11AM, I decide to go across to the east side. Wanted to check out a point but I changed my mind halfway and headed towards a shoreline I've haven't really fished much.
Work a dock really quick just to see, nada. I move out into deeper water and end up catching a ~13" SMB in about 20' of water. I continue along this shoreline moving shallow to deep. Spotted lots of SMB fingerlings today.
I make a cast with the football jig in about +20' of water. A couple of hops and drag and I feel a take. Feels like a pretty decent fish. It's stayed down the entire time until it was under the boat. Only then did it surface to show itself. Decent SMB. ~15" @ 2lb 2oz.
I ended up with another dink ~10" SMB in about 15' of water.
I notice some interesting cover/structure on SI that I will have to go back and check out.
Good day on the water.
Available Fishing Guide:
Website: Darrell & Dads Family Guide Service