Well guys you saw my post a couple weeks ago about going to Kerr for my first time and let me say I was mind boggled!!! This lake is the biggest lake I have ever been on, the weather was horrible, the water was cold in most places, and it was flat out muddy. I also felt like this lake was so featureless except for point after point after point. Let me also remind you that I am not a great fisherman and have only been fishing hard for about 4-5 years.
Practice.... The weekend of the 8-9th was ok. It was a little chilly and a little windy. I spent about 5 hours on the lake Saturday only fished and hour or so and spent the other 4 hours looking and graphing. No Fish!!! Sunday I went back out and spent another 5 hours or so on the lake 2-3 graphing and looking and 2-3 hours fishing. I caught 3 fish one was 4lbs 11 oz, another 3lbs 4 oz, and another 3lb even. Not bad right??? WRONG!!! All 3 fish were caught in 10 cast on the same point. No other fish were to be seen.
Practice again... I went out Friday the 15th for another round of practice. Yes the wind was blowing 20-30. Waves over the bow all day long. I managed to catch 2 fish about 2.5-3 pounds. My brother caught 1. So now that practice is done I felt like the fish I was catching was decent but not catching enough.
Tourney Day... We blast off at 8:00 I go to my first spot and within 5 cast I caught 1 about 2 pounds. About 20 minutes later my brother caught 1. So I am thinking it is going to be ok. Not another bite till an hour before weigh in. In the last hour we managed to squeak out a limit. Off to weigh in we go. We get back and have like 15 minutes, so we pull the rods back out and fish a rock point at the ramp (North Bend Ramp) and my brother catches one that culls us up about a pound. So the result was we finished 4th, with 10.87 pounds and our big fish was 2.83. The winning weight was 13.?? Big fish was 3.95.
Overview... I was pleased with my performance with having never fished that lake before, but my biggest mistake was to much running and not staying where I caught all but 1 fish for the day. We probably wasted 1.5-2 hours running to try and find warmer water.
Key points... All but a couple fish in my Kerr debut (practice and Tourney) were caught on a war eagle 3/4 ounce white spinner bait with double Colorado blade with a 5" caffeine shad trailer. A few fish were caught on a 5/16 war eagle finesse spinnerbait with 4" trailer (caffeine shad), 1 on a trap, and 1 on a jig. Most fish were caught in the warmest water I could find on secondary points and at the end of the day in the very back of coves.
I had fun and enjoyed the challenge of a new lake and want to go fish it again in about 2-3 weeks. Then they should be chewing good.
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Originally Posted by Jumping Jimmy
