12-26-2005, 06:19 AM
There is a lake i fish that is open all year because of a powerplant that warms the water and i fished there a few days ago and having an outcome i didn't expect.
There is a channel that pushes out the warm water to the main part of the lake and that is where i usually fish in the winter because of the waters warmest temperature. The water is stained and it cant be over 8 feet in some of the spots there and on the channel it is covered with a lot of rocks on the shoreline and then im pretty sure that is most of the bottom by the channel is mostly rocks.
There isn't much cover that i know of other then in the rocks and maybe some structures underwater.
Anyways i was just really looking for some help if anyone had any ideas i should be going out there tuesday again and i want to be ready this time.
I was out saturday morning and the Temp. outside reached about 40 degrees and i tried plastics(lizards, ribbontails, tubes) to jerkbaits and then i managed to pull out one pound and a half bass on a black and blue jig. At the time the current was so fast that it was drifting along hitting rocks on the way and while i started to reel it went towards the surface from the force of me reeling and it hit it then and i could see the whirl in the water. The bass seemed to come from the rocks over hanging in the channel.
So i ended up fishing the jig for most of the time and was out there for 4 hours and just ended up with one. and then one strike that i missed.
So that pretty much sums it up if you got through all that haha, but i live in North Dakota and all of our lakes freeze up except that one, so it's a little harder for me to read.
oh and by the way the lake consists of Largemouth Bass, Pike, Walleye, Crappie and blugills.
If anyone has any advise i would really apprectiate it.
thanks!!!
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There is a channel that pushes out the warm water to the main part of the lake and that is where i usually fish in the winter because of the waters warmest temperature. The water is stained and it cant be over 8 feet in some of the spots there and on the channel it is covered with a lot of rocks on the shoreline and then im pretty sure that is most of the bottom by the channel is mostly rocks.
There isn't much cover that i know of other then in the rocks and maybe some structures underwater.
Anyways i was just really looking for some help if anyone had any ideas i should be going out there tuesday again and i want to be ready this time.
I was out saturday morning and the Temp. outside reached about 40 degrees and i tried plastics(lizards, ribbontails, tubes) to jerkbaits and then i managed to pull out one pound and a half bass on a black and blue jig. At the time the current was so fast that it was drifting along hitting rocks on the way and while i started to reel it went towards the surface from the force of me reeling and it hit it then and i could see the whirl in the water. The bass seemed to come from the rocks over hanging in the channel.
So i ended up fishing the jig for most of the time and was out there for 4 hours and just ended up with one. and then one strike that i missed.
So that pretty much sums it up if you got through all that haha, but i live in North Dakota and all of our lakes freeze up except that one, so it's a little harder for me to read.
oh and by the way the lake consists of Largemouth Bass, Pike, Walleye, Crappie and blugills.
If anyone has any advise i would really apprectiate it.
thanks!!!
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