06-08-2004, 12:15 AM
Hello Dave,
Thanks for the reply and the warm welcome. I take it from your other message that your sister lives in Georgia. I've no doubt that what she says about the fishing wherever she's fishing is true.
For the time being at least, I don't want to identify the reservoir I've been fishing. It is lightly fished, little known, and I'd just as soon keep it that way. I can just imagine what the parking area would look like if I mentioned the name and/or location online!
Fishing has been slow, and putting more boats on the lake is not going to make it better, that's for certain.
My wife and I have gone there about once a week for the past several weeks. I think our number one problem is that we don't have a fishfinder. Not that I expect a fishfinder to do anything more than tell me what's under the surface...such as depth, contour, structure, etc. Without knowing that, all we can fish is the obvious places, such as shoreline, standing trees, one grass bed area, etc. Those areas have produced a few small bass and one 6 1/2 lb bass in the past month or so. I think the 6.5 lb. bass was just a lucky cast, as that area hasn't produced a strike since then.
Last week we fished hard for about 5 hours and each caught 2 bass. We catch and release, but I doubt we would have kept those four fish even if we were big on eating bass. 2 of them might have been keepers, the other two weren't. We caught them on a variety of offerings, as the tough fishing had us trying everything we could think of.
One was caught on a watermelon colored worm texas rigged in maybe 10 feet of water. Another was caught on a 6" old style red plastic worm with a split shot about a foot above it on my line (a desperate ploy) in the same area at probably a similar depth. Another fish was caught on a chartreuse grub texas rigged, and the other on a spinnerbait. No obvious pattern to what we caught and how or where.
We haven't been back since, though it was only a week ago. I'm going to try a couple more times. If we don't do any better, and no one else is doing any better, I'm going to find another place to fish or fish for a different species of fish.
That's my story, anyway.
Thanks for the reply and the warm welcome. I take it from your other message that your sister lives in Georgia. I've no doubt that what she says about the fishing wherever she's fishing is true.
For the time being at least, I don't want to identify the reservoir I've been fishing. It is lightly fished, little known, and I'd just as soon keep it that way. I can just imagine what the parking area would look like if I mentioned the name and/or location online!
Fishing has been slow, and putting more boats on the lake is not going to make it better, that's for certain.
My wife and I have gone there about once a week for the past several weeks. I think our number one problem is that we don't have a fishfinder. Not that I expect a fishfinder to do anything more than tell me what's under the surface...such as depth, contour, structure, etc. Without knowing that, all we can fish is the obvious places, such as shoreline, standing trees, one grass bed area, etc. Those areas have produced a few small bass and one 6 1/2 lb bass in the past month or so. I think the 6.5 lb. bass was just a lucky cast, as that area hasn't produced a strike since then.
Last week we fished hard for about 5 hours and each caught 2 bass. We catch and release, but I doubt we would have kept those four fish even if we were big on eating bass. 2 of them might have been keepers, the other two weren't. We caught them on a variety of offerings, as the tough fishing had us trying everything we could think of.
One was caught on a watermelon colored worm texas rigged in maybe 10 feet of water. Another was caught on a 6" old style red plastic worm with a split shot about a foot above it on my line (a desperate ploy) in the same area at probably a similar depth. Another fish was caught on a chartreuse grub texas rigged, and the other on a spinnerbait. No obvious pattern to what we caught and how or where.
We haven't been back since, though it was only a week ago. I'm going to try a couple more times. If we don't do any better, and no one else is doing any better, I'm going to find another place to fish or fish for a different species of fish.
That's my story, anyway.