Then comes day three of my little Georgia fishing adventure... With the
very kind help of our own Ronnie Garrison, I not only got to fish West Point
Lake from a boat, but got to spend the day with a very knowledgable
fisherman and a great guy. Got to catch a few bass as a bonus.
The day started slowly, with the wind whipping around us pretty good and
the temps somewhere in the low 30's. Now being from the frozen north, I am
pretty accustomed to this as a normal spring morning, temp wise, but Ronnie
and I were both expecting the worst when we launched the boat around 8:00am.
This cold snap had been on us for a good day to day and a half, so I wasn't
exactly sure that we would see action on the lake, much less the end of the
line. We fished a good part of the morning until around 11:00 - 11:30 (I
wasn't wearing a watch) I was finally able to hook up with a nice 2lb 9oz
spotted bass near a main lake point. Seemed to be relating to a submerged
stump. This at least got the blood pumping in the boat. Ronnie had a
little guy on down the same stretch of bank leading into a cut, but nothing
to really speak of. Just another clue that not all the fish had lockjaw.
We caught a few more as the day rolled on, including a 2lb largemouth boated
by Ronnie, and a couple of shorter fish mixed in. The wind seemed to
constantly be changing direction and softening throughout the day. It was
kinda unusual.
Comparing the results to our expectations, I think you could safely say
we had a pretty decent day. Didn't have a real solid pattern emerge, but
those Georgia fish sure do like brightly colored crankbaits...

....and thanks again to Ronnie. I was in need of a tug on the end of the
line in a bad way, and I appreciate you helping out a fellow ROFB'er!
Please feel free to correct any details the 10 hour drive home might have
blurred. :-)

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Andrew Kidd
Thanks for the nice comments - we did have a good time and caught more that I
expected under those conditions. You had it just like I remember it, and
thanks for not mentioning you had the biggest bass of the day and also the
most!

I finally got time to post the pictures to my site and will email them to you
tonight.

Ronnie

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