Fished the lake with Mizzou21 yesterday and had a good day again. Expanded on the pattern I found last weekend pattern wise and we loaded the boat. Caught over 50 fish with our best 5 again in the 13-14lb range. Big fish was pushing 5lbs and we had 10-12 keepers.
like last weekend we threw a finesse worm on a 3/16th Strikeworks finesse jighead. The only modification I make is that I cut off the weedguard. Color did not seem to matter but any shad of green seemed to produce best. I stuck with green pumpkin and and watermelon candy most of the day but did change to watermelon gold after the sun came out. My partner used a mossy pumpkin and a few other assorted colors. The deeper points and deeper docks were key. We basically just pitched them out and waited for the bite. It seemed early there was a tougher bite as we could not get bit on topwaters or moving baits. The first hour or so was tough catch wise no matter what we did. We just kept moving around and changing up things a bit until we locked onto the pattern better.
One other key element to the presentation was letting the bait lie still. The least amount of movement seemed best. I noticed that last week and found it worked best agin yesterday. There was a period where I was getting bit but partner was not. I told him to try to minimize movement with the bait and to just let it fall and that helped as he caught fish on 5-6 consecutive casts and really helped his catch rate. We targeted the breaklines along the shore between the docks as well. Depth of 2-6ft seemed the best range. Water temps were 88-90 and the lake was still fairly stained. we concentrated in areas within the main lake.
I stuck the big fish on a copper green Lucky Craft RC 0.5 along a windy point at about noon. After the wind picked up I would fish the crankbait as we were moving across the points into pockets and such.
I fished the last two hours by myself and noticed a lot of baitfish schools along the points. It was hard to catch anything where you would normally expect to in these areas but I found if I concentrated along the sides of each point and fish paralell to them I could get bit. I fished primarily the same two baits mentioned above. I did get a couple of fish on a blue fleck Power Worm T-rigged near isolated cover.
Also saw the alligator agin in the same area...LOL...
As I always say its a nice litle lake that is full of fish. I saw Brian Clark before I launched and he and Trent had a TFF match fishing match out there. He was pretty excited and said he thought he could find a good big fish bite with the weather change and sure enough when he called me last night they had weighed in over 21 lbs. They had a 7lb kicker and he said they broke off 2 that would have easily been over 5lbs each in addition to what they weighed. Thats tough to beat anywhere on any lake this time of year. I can only imagine his knowledge of the lake after spending so much time out there as a kid.
We had a good day and its nice to avoid all the recreational traffic and just go fishing. Hope the reports helps. Good luck and be safe
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