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Winning Pattern?
Is there any way everyone can detail how they caught them without giving
away the farm? Just curious how you guys worked through the weather situations? Congratulations everyone, and I am glad to hear everybody had a great time. chris |
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OK.... more details:
Wednesday, prefishing: weather was moderate (in the mid-60's), cloudy, with scattered drizzle, turning to rain after awhile. Dan and I fished together, and the only two fish we caught were before 11:00. bass #1: 4 pound smallmouth, caught about 20 feet off a rocky secondary point near the head of Indian Creek, with the boat in about 30 feet of water. I'd estimate the water was about 18 feet deep where the fish hit my 1/2-ounce Secret Weapon White Shiner with single, gold willowleaf blade. - bass #2: 1 pound Kentucky (spotted) bass. Same spinnerbait, but I cast it across a 6-inch diameter laydown trunk in about 1 to 1-1/2 foot of water. The bass trapped the lure against the far side of the log. I just cinched it up tight against the log, trolled over, and lipped it. In the afternoon, Steve and I ran back out for a couple hours to try to locate bass just inside main lake points. We did find several nice spots (KY bass) that hit pearl flukes and a white Senko. The pig of a bass I caught hit my pearl Driftwood Lures drift stick within a foot of the rocky shoreline. It must have been there trapping fry and other prey in the shallow water. I brought it out to the boat, but then it threw the hook. I stopped reeling. The bass darted off about three feet, turned back, and then started moving its head back and forth like a dog trying to pick up a scent. It spotted my lure, and then attacked it again. A hit and miss. On its next attempt, I finally got a good hookset and brought it into the boat. Next, we ran to a shallow cove where the Indian Creek Church Camp covered boat dock sits. There Steve connected with a 4-pound largemouth while flipping his white Senko willows, brush, and timber in no more than one foot of water. We suspected the largemouth had already spawned, judging by the condition of its tail. Might have been a big male; if on a bed, we never saw it. In fact, although I looked, I never saw the first bass bed all weekend. Smallmouth had already spawned out, we were advised, but we should have seen some sign of largemouth and spot spawning beds. Thursday: threatening, gray skies turned to rain and then thunderstorms for several hours. The spinnerbait was non-productive before the storms set in. Afterwards, Dan and I picked up a couple of bass using white, plastic stick baits, rigged Texas-style, without weights. I cast them alongside laydowns and around brush and willows. Then Randy, the Outdoor Frontiers cameraman, joined us for an hour of fishing and another in the private dock. With camera rolling, we picked up another bass off a laydown... same bait and pattern as befo just cast it out, let it drift down, and kept an eye on my line. Any tick or unusual movement indicated a pickup; I never felt the hits... just pressure. Friday: Partnered with Joe P. Same weather.... less rain, more wind, cooler. Nice, gray overcast all day long. I thought the fish should be a little more active, although we were in a post-frontal condition. I think we were seeing multiple fronts passing through. It may not have confused the fish, but it sure threw me off. My first bass of the day, another spot, came on the same spinnerbait. I took it while moving up the dock under high trolling-motor speed, near a small outcrop of rocks on an otherwise nondescript bank, between two widely-separated laydowns. I believe the bass came out from the shore to hit it. After that, we switched to white or baby bass and started catching two more bass from rock shelves along the side of a deep cove off Indian Creek. Working out way to the back, where water was shallow (about 15 feet under the boat at the tree tops), we flipped and cast around a half dozen laydowns, some blocking access to the shallowest section of the cove. That's where Joe and I caught another seven keeper-size bass, all on Drift Sticks and Senkos (or some other variant). In the last hour, we ran back out toward the main lake, stopping at the mouth of Jones Branch -- a side cove just inside Indian Creek. We tried a few more laydowns on the right side of the mouth with no luck. With time running out, we went across to a broken-rock rounded point between two nice little pockets. We started at the left pocket, where we immediately started getting hits on fast-moving Drift sticks, retrieved about two feet down in a walk-the-dog fashion. I got two strong hits, and Joe P. had another. I got the first one up near the boat, close enough to see it was a big smallmouth. I suspect the others were as well. This is the place and the retrieve that had been recommended to me, but foolishly I had not tried it until the very end of the tournament. We ran out of time before it paid off for us. Saturday evening, two boats (Randy and Charles in one, Chris, Dave, and I in the other) went out with black lights and fluorescent lines for some nigh-fishing. Chris caught a nice 1-1/2 pound bass on a black Senko, rigged weightless. Dave and I, too, tried it, and while I got a few pecks and one solid "thump," in the hour we fished, we came up blank. I think Randy and Charles caught another two. Had they not been laughing so hard that tears obscured the trees lining the bank, they might have done even better. As it was, they spent a lot of time retrieving their baits from overhanging limbs. One other note.... Every bass I caught in three days was keeper size. All were spots, with the exception of that big smallmouth. -- Joe Haubenreich www.secretweaponlures.com First real spinnerbait change in 50 years! _______________________ "Chris Rennert" wrote in message ... Is there any way everyone can detail how they caught them without giving away the farm? Just curious how you guys worked through the weather situations? Congratulations everyone, and I am glad to hear everybody had a great time. chris |
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That was a night I won't soon forget, we could not even cast we were
laughing so hard, what a night "Joe Haubenreich" rofbmail (at) secretweaponlures (dot) com wrote in message ... OK.... more details: Wednesday, prefishing: weather was moderate (in the mid-60's), cloudy, with scattered drizzle, turning to rain after awhile. Dan and I fished together, and the only two fish we caught were before 11:00. bass #1: 4 pound smallmouth, caught about 20 feet off a rocky secondary point near the head of Indian Creek, with the boat in about 30 feet of water. I'd estimate the water was about 18 feet deep where the fish hit my 1/2-ounce Secret Weapon White Shiner with single, gold willowleaf blade. - bass #2: 1 pound Kentucky (spotted) bass. Same spinnerbait, but I cast it across a 6-inch diameter laydown trunk in about 1 to 1-1/2 foot of water. The bass trapped the lure against the far side of the log. I just cinched it up tight against the log, trolled over, and lipped it. In the afternoon, Steve and I ran back out for a couple hours to try to locate bass just inside main lake points. We did find several nice spots (KY bass) that hit pearl flukes and a white Senko. The pig of a bass I caught hit my pearl Driftwood Lures drift stick within a foot of the rocky shoreline. It must have been there trapping fry and other prey in the shallow water. I brought it out to the boat, but then it threw the hook. I stopped reeling. The bass darted off about three feet, turned back, and then started moving its head back and forth like a dog trying to pick up a scent. It spotted my lure, and then attacked it again. A hit and miss. On its next attempt, I finally got a good hookset and brought it into the boat. Next, we ran to a shallow cove where the Indian Creek Church Camp covered boat dock sits. There Steve connected with a 4-pound largemouth while flipping his white Senko willows, brush, and timber in no more than one foot of water. We suspected the largemouth had already spawned, judging by the condition of its tail. Might have been a big male; if on a bed, we never saw it. In fact, although I looked, I never saw the first bass bed all weekend. Smallmouth had already spawned out, we were advised, but we should have seen some sign of largemouth and spot spawning beds. Thursday: threatening, gray skies turned to rain and then thunderstorms for several hours. The spinnerbait was non-productive before the storms set in. Afterwards, Dan and I picked up a couple of bass using white, plastic stick baits, rigged Texas-style, without weights. I cast them alongside laydowns and around brush and willows. Then Randy, the Outdoor Frontiers cameraman, joined us for an hour of fishing and another in the private dock. With camera rolling, we picked up another bass off a laydown... same bait and pattern as befo just cast it out, let it drift down, and kept an eye on my line. Any tick or unusual movement indicated a pickup; I never felt the hits... just pressure. Friday: Partnered with Joe P. Same weather.... less rain, more wind, cooler. Nice, gray overcast all day long. I thought the fish should be a little more active, although we were in a post-frontal condition. I think we were seeing multiple fronts passing through. It may not have confused the fish, but it sure threw me off. My first bass of the day, another spot, came on the same spinnerbait. I took it while moving up the dock under high trolling-motor speed, near a small outcrop of rocks on an otherwise nondescript bank, between two widely-separated laydowns. I believe the bass came out from the shore to hit it. After that, we switched to white or baby bass and started catching two more bass from rock shelves along the side of a deep cove off Indian Creek. Working out way to the back, where water was shallow (about 15 feet under the boat at the tree tops), we flipped and cast around a half dozen laydowns, some blocking access to the shallowest section of the cove. That's where Joe and I caught another seven keeper-size bass, all on Drift Sticks and Senkos (or some other variant). In the last hour, we ran back out toward the main lake, stopping at the mouth of Jones Branch -- a side cove just inside Indian Creek. We tried a few more laydowns on the right side of the mouth with no luck. With time running out, we went across to a broken-rock rounded point between two nice little pockets. We started at the left pocket, where we immediately started getting hits on fast-moving Drift sticks, retrieved about two feet down in a walk-the-dog fashion. I got two strong hits, and Joe P. had another. I got the first one up near the boat, close enough to see it was a big smallmouth. I suspect the others were as well. This is the place and the retrieve that had been recommended to me, but foolishly I had not tried it until the very end of the tournament. We ran out of time before it paid off for us. Saturday evening, two boats (Randy and Charles in one, Chris, Dave, and I in the other) went out with black lights and fluorescent lines for some nigh-fishing. Chris caught a nice 1-1/2 pound bass on a black Senko, rigged weightless. Dave and I, too, tried it, and while I got a few pecks and one solid "thump," in the hour we fished, we came up blank. I think Randy and Charles caught another two. Had they not been laughing so hard that tears obscured the trees lining the bank, they might have done even better. As it was, they spent a lot of time retrieving their baits from overhanging limbs. One other note.... Every bass I caught in three days was keeper size. All were spots, with the exception of that big smallmouth. -- Joe Haubenreich www.secretweaponlures.com First real spinnerbait change in 50 years! _______________________ "Chris Rennert" wrote in message ... Is there any way everyone can detail how they caught them without giving away the farm? Just curious how you guys worked through the weather situations? Congratulations everyone, and I am glad to hear everybody had a great time. chris |
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I swear... I can't even try to tell that story again without laughing. Man,
you had me doubled over on the boat about to **** in my pants. "alwaysfishking" wrote in message ... That was a night I won't soon forget, we could not even cast we were laughing so hard, what a night "Joe Haubenreich" rofbmail (at) secretweaponlures (dot) com wrote in message ... OK.... more details: Wednesday, prefishing: weather was moderate (in the mid-60's), cloudy, with scattered drizzle, turning to rain after awhile. Dan and I fished together, and the only two fish we caught were before 11:00. bass #1: 4 pound smallmouth, caught about 20 feet off a rocky secondary point near the head of Indian Creek, with the boat in about 30 feet of water. I'd estimate the water was about 18 feet deep where the fish hit my 1/2-ounce Secret Weapon White Shiner with single, gold willowleaf blade. - bass #2: 1 pound Kentucky (spotted) bass. Same spinnerbait, but I cast it across a 6-inch diameter laydown trunk in about 1 to 1-1/2 foot of water. The bass trapped the lure against the far side of the log. I just cinched it up tight against the log, trolled over, and lipped it. In the afternoon, Steve and I ran back out for a couple hours to try to locate bass just inside main lake points. We did find several nice spots (KY bass) that hit pearl flukes and a white Senko. The pig of a bass I caught hit my pearl Driftwood Lures drift stick within a foot of the rocky shoreline. It must have been there trapping fry and other prey in the shallow water. I brought it out to the boat, but then it threw the hook. I stopped reeling. The bass darted off about three feet, turned back, and then started moving its head back and forth like a dog trying to pick up a scent. It spotted my lure, and then attacked it again. A hit and miss. On its next attempt, I finally got a good hookset and brought it into the boat. Next, we ran to a shallow cove where the Indian Creek Church Camp covered boat dock sits. There Steve connected with a 4-pound largemouth while flipping his white Senko willows, brush, and timber in no more than one foot of water. We suspected the largemouth had already spawned, judging by the condition of its tail. Might have been a big male; if on a bed, we never saw it. In fact, although I looked, I never saw the first bass bed all weekend. Smallmouth had already spawned out, we were advised, but we should have seen some sign of largemouth and spot spawning beds. Thursday: threatening, gray skies turned to rain and then thunderstorms for several hours. The spinnerbait was non-productive before the storms set in. Afterwards, Dan and I picked up a couple of bass using white, plastic stick baits, rigged Texas-style, without weights. I cast them alongside laydowns and around brush and willows. Then Randy, the Outdoor Frontiers cameraman, joined us for an hour of fishing and another in the private dock. With camera rolling, we picked up another bass off a laydown... same bait and pattern as befo just cast it out, let it drift down, and kept an eye on my line. Any tick or unusual movement indicated a pickup; I never felt the hits... just pressure. Friday: Partnered with Joe P. Same weather.... less rain, more wind, cooler. Nice, gray overcast all day long. I thought the fish should be a little more active, although we were in a post-frontal condition. I think we were seeing multiple fronts passing through. It may not have confused the fish, but it sure threw me off. My first bass of the day, another spot, came on the same spinnerbait. I took it while moving up the dock under high trolling-motor speed, near a small outcrop of rocks on an otherwise nondescript bank, between two widely-separated laydowns. I believe the bass came out from the shore to hit it. After that, we switched to white or baby bass and started catching two more bass from rock shelves along the side of a deep cove off Indian Creek. Working out way to the back, where water was shallow (about 15 feet under the boat at the tree tops), we flipped and cast around a half dozen laydowns, some blocking access to the shallowest section of the cove. That's where Joe and I caught another seven keeper-size bass, all on Drift Sticks and Senkos (or some other variant). In the last hour, we ran back out toward the main lake, stopping at the mouth of Jones Branch -- a side cove just inside Indian Creek. We tried a few more laydowns on the right side of the mouth with no luck. With time running out, we went across to a broken-rock rounded point between two nice little pockets. We started at the left pocket, where we immediately started getting hits on fast-moving Drift sticks, retrieved about two feet down in a walk-the-dog fashion. I got two strong hits, and Joe P. had another. I got the first one up near the boat, close enough to see it was a big smallmouth. I suspect the others were as well. This is the place and the retrieve that had been recommended to me, but foolishly I had not tried it until the very end of the tournament. We ran out of time before it paid off for us. Saturday evening, two boats (Randy and Charles in one, Chris, Dave, and I in the other) went out with black lights and fluorescent lines for some nigh-fishing. Chris caught a nice 1-1/2 pound bass on a black Senko, rigged weightless. Dave and I, too, tried it, and while I got a few pecks and one solid "thump," in the hour we fished, we came up blank. I think Randy and Charles caught another two. Had they not been laughing so hard that tears obscured the trees lining the bank, they might have done even better. As it was, they spent a lot of time retrieving their baits from overhanging limbs. One other note.... Every bass I caught in three days was keeper size. All were spots, with the exception of that big smallmouth. -- Joe Haubenreich www.secretweaponlures.com First real spinnerbait change in 50 years! _______________________ "Chris Rennert" wrote in message ... Is there any way everyone can detail how they caught them without giving away the farm? Just curious how you guys worked through the weather situations? Congratulations everyone, and I am glad to hear everybody had a great time. chris |
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What story was that? Randy and Ken both tried to kill me on the way back from dinner on Sat. night! I seriously thought I was going to die, could catch my breath from laughing so hard! There was something in there about a pack of hot dogs as well??? Sleep deprivation had to have played a part in that as well??? Heavy Charles B. Summers wrote: I swear... I can't even try to tell that story again without laughing. Man, you had me doubled over on the boat about to **** in my pants. "alwaysfishking" wrote in message ... That was a night I won't soon forget, we could not even cast we were laughing so hard, what a night "Joe Haubenreich" rofbmail (at) secretweaponlures (dot) com wrote in message ... OK.... more details: Wednesday, prefishing: weather was moderate (in the mid-60's), cloudy, with scattered drizzle, turning to rain after awhile. Dan and I fished together, and the only two fish we caught were before 11:00. bass #1: 4 pound smallmouth, caught about 20 feet off a rocky secondary point near the head of Indian Creek, with the boat in about 30 feet of water. I'd estimate the water was about 18 feet deep where the fish hit my 1/2-ounce Secret Weapon White Shiner with single, gold willowleaf blade. - bass #2: 1 pound Kentucky (spotted) bass. Same spinnerbait, but I cast it across a 6-inch diameter laydown trunk in about 1 to 1-1/2 foot of water. The bass trapped the lure against the far side of the log. I just cinched it up tight against the log, trolled over, and lipped it. In the afternoon, Steve and I ran back out for a couple hours to try to locate bass just inside main lake points. We did find several nice spots (KY bass) that hit pearl flukes and a white Senko. The pig of a bass I caught hit my pearl Driftwood Lures drift stick within a foot of the rocky shoreline. It must have been there trapping fry and other prey in the shallow water. I brought it out to the boat, but then it threw the hook. I stopped reeling. The bass darted off about three feet, turned back, and then started moving its head back and forth like a dog trying to pick up a scent. It spotted my lure, and then attacked it again. A hit and miss. On its next attempt, I finally got a good hookset and brought it into the boat. Next, we ran to a shallow cove where the Indian Creek Church Camp covered boat dock sits. There Steve connected with a 4-pound largemouth while flipping his white Senko willows, brush, and timber in no more than one foot of water. We suspected the largemouth had already spawned, judging by the condition of its tail. Might have been a big male; if on a bed, we never saw it. In fact, although I looked, I never saw the first bass bed all weekend. Smallmouth had already spawned out, we were advised, but we should have seen some sign of largemouth and spot spawning beds. Thursday: threatening, gray skies turned to rain and then thunderstorms for several hours. The spinnerbait was non-productive before the storms set in. Afterwards, Dan and I picked up a couple of bass using white, plastic stick baits, rigged Texas-style, without weights. I cast them alongside laydowns and around brush and willows. Then Randy, the Outdoor Frontiers cameraman, joined us for an hour of fishing and another in the private dock. With camera rolling, we picked up another bass off a laydown... same bait and pattern as befo just cast it out, let it drift down, and kept an eye on my line. Any tick or unusual movement indicated a pickup; I never felt the hits... just pressure. Friday: Partnered with Joe P. Same weather.... less rain, more wind, cooler. Nice, gray overcast all day long. I thought the fish should be a little more active, although we were in a post-frontal condition. I think we were seeing multiple fronts passing through. It may not have confused the fish, but it sure threw me off. My first bass of the day, another spot, came on the same spinnerbait. I took it while moving up the dock under high trolling-motor speed, near a small outcrop of rocks on an otherwise nondescript bank, between two widely-separated laydowns. I believe the bass came out from the shore to hit it. After that, we switched to white or baby bass and started catching two more bass from rock shelves along the side of a deep cove off Indian Creek. Working out way to the back, where water was shallow (about 15 feet under the boat at the tree tops), we flipped and cast around a half dozen laydowns, some blocking access to the shallowest section of the cove. That's where Joe and I caught another seven keeper-size bass, all on Drift Sticks and Senkos (or some other variant). In the last hour, we ran back out toward the main lake, stopping at the mouth of Jones Branch -- a side cove just inside Indian Creek. We tried a few more laydowns on the right side of the mouth with no luck. With time running out, we went across to a broken-rock rounded point between two nice little pockets. We started at the left pocket, where we immediately started getting hits on fast-moving Drift sticks, retrieved about two feet down in a walk-the-dog fashion. I got two strong hits, and Joe P. had another. I got the first one up near the boat, close enough to see it was a big smallmouth. I suspect the others were as well. This is the place and the retrieve that had been recommended to me, but foolishly I had not tried it until the very end of the tournament. We ran out of time before it paid off for us. Saturday evening, two boats (Randy and Charles in one, Chris, Dave, and I in the other) went out with black lights and fluorescent lines for some nigh-fishing. Chris caught a nice 1-1/2 pound bass on a black Senko, rigged weightless. Dave and I, too, tried it, and while I got a few pecks and one solid "thump," in the hour we fished, we came up blank. I think Randy and Charles caught another two. Had they not been laughing so hard that tears obscured the trees lining the bank, they might have done even better. As it was, they spent a lot of time retrieving their baits from overhanging limbs. One other note.... Every bass I caught in three days was keeper size. All were spots, with the exception of that big smallmouth. -- Joe Haubenreich www.secretweaponlures.com First real spinnerbait change in 50 years! _______________________ "Chris Rennert" wrote in message ... Is there any way everyone can detail how they caught them without giving away the farm? Just curious how you guys worked through the weather situations? Congratulations everyone, and I am glad to hear everybody had a great time. chris |
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It concerned a bat and a zara spook and some night fishing involved, we
added a possible scenario of what might have happened if the situation did not turn out the way it did, and that's when the gut busting laughter started, My ribs hurt after that one "Heavy" wrote in message oups.com... What story was that? Randy and Ken both tried to kill me on the way back from dinner on Sat. night! I seriously thought I was going to die, could catch my breath from laughing so hard! There was something in there about a pack of hot dogs as well??? Sleep deprivation had to have played a part in that as well??? Heavy Charles B. Summers wrote: I swear... I can't even try to tell that story again without laughing. Man, you had me doubled over on the boat about to **** in my pants. "alwaysfishking" wrote in message ... That was a night I won't soon forget, we could not even cast we were laughing so hard, what a night "Joe Haubenreich" rofbmail (at) secretweaponlures (dot) com wrote in message ... OK.... more details: Wednesday, prefishing: weather was moderate (in the mid-60's), cloudy, with scattered drizzle, turning to rain after awhile. Dan and I fished together, and the only two fish we caught were before 11:00. bass #1: 4 pound smallmouth, caught about 20 feet off a rocky secondary point near the head of Indian Creek, with the boat in about 30 feet of water. I'd estimate the water was about 18 feet deep where the fish hit my 1/2-ounce Secret Weapon White Shiner with single, gold willowleaf blade. - bass #2: 1 pound Kentucky (spotted) bass. Same spinnerbait, but I cast it across a 6-inch diameter laydown trunk in about 1 to 1-1/2 foot of water. The bass trapped the lure against the far side of the log. I just cinched it up tight against the log, trolled over, and lipped it. In the afternoon, Steve and I ran back out for a couple hours to try to locate bass just inside main lake points. We did find several nice spots (KY bass) that hit pearl flukes and a white Senko. The pig of a bass I caught hit my pearl Driftwood Lures drift stick within a foot of the rocky shoreline. It must have been there trapping fry and other prey in the shallow water. I brought it out to the boat, but then it threw the hook. I stopped reeling. The bass darted off about three feet, turned back, and then started moving its head back and forth like a dog trying to pick up a scent. It spotted my lure, and then attacked it again. A hit and miss. On its next attempt, I finally got a good hookset and brought it into the boat. Next, we ran to a shallow cove where the Indian Creek Church Camp covered boat dock sits. There Steve connected with a 4-pound largemouth while flipping his white Senko willows, brush, and timber in no more than one foot of water. We suspected the largemouth had already spawned, judging by the condition of its tail. Might have been a big male; if on a bed, we never saw it. In fact, although I looked, I never saw the first bass bed all weekend. Smallmouth had already spawned out, we were advised, but we should have seen some sign of largemouth and spot spawning beds. Thursday: threatening, gray skies turned to rain and then thunderstorms for several hours. The spinnerbait was non-productive before the storms set in. Afterwards, Dan and I picked up a couple of bass using white, plastic stick baits, rigged Texas-style, without weights. I cast them alongside laydowns and around brush and willows. Then Randy, the Outdoor Frontiers cameraman, joined us for an hour of fishing and another in the private dock. With camera rolling, we picked up another bass off a laydown... same bait and pattern as befo just cast it out, let it drift down, and kept an eye on my line. Any tick or unusual movement indicated a pickup; I never felt the hits... just pressure. Friday: Partnered with Joe P. Same weather.... less rain, more wind, cooler. Nice, gray overcast all day long. I thought the fish should be a little more active, although we were in a post-frontal condition. I think we were seeing multiple fronts passing through. It may not have confused the fish, but it sure threw me off. My first bass of the day, another spot, came on the same spinnerbait. I took it while moving up the dock under high trolling-motor speed, near a small outcrop of rocks on an otherwise nondescript bank, between two widely-separated laydowns. I believe the bass came out from the shore to hit it. After that, we switched to white or baby bass and started catching two more bass from rock shelves along the side of a deep cove off Indian Creek. Working out way to the back, where water was shallow (about 15 feet under the boat at the tree tops), we flipped and cast around a half dozen laydowns, some blocking access to the shallowest section of the cove. That's where Joe and I caught another seven keeper-size bass, all on Drift Sticks and Senkos (or some other variant). In the last hour, we ran back out toward the main lake, stopping at the mouth of Jones Branch -- a side cove just inside Indian Creek. We tried a few more laydowns on the right side of the mouth with no luck. With time running out, we went across to a broken-rock rounded point between two nice little pockets. We started at the left pocket, where we immediately started getting hits on fast-moving Drift sticks, retrieved about two feet down in a walk-the-dog fashion. I got two strong hits, and Joe P. had another. I got the first one up near the boat, close enough to see it was a big smallmouth. I suspect the others were as well. This is the place and the retrieve that had been recommended to me, but foolishly I had not tried it until the very end of the tournament. We ran out of time before it paid off for us. Saturday evening, two boats (Randy and Charles in one, Chris, Dave, and I in the other) went out with black lights and fluorescent lines for some nigh-fishing. Chris caught a nice 1-1/2 pound bass on a black Senko, rigged weightless. Dave and I, too, tried it, and while I got a few pecks and one solid "thump," in the hour we fished, we came up blank. I think Randy and Charles caught another two. Had they not been laughing so hard that tears obscured the trees lining the bank, they might have done even better. As it was, they spent a lot of time retrieving their baits from overhanging limbs. One other note.... Every bass I caught in three days was keeper size. All were spots, with the exception of that big smallmouth. -- Joe Haubenreich www.secretweaponlures.com First real spinnerbait change in 50 years! _______________________ "Chris Rennert" wrote in message ... Is there any way everyone can detail how they caught them without giving away the farm? Just curious how you guys worked through the weather situations? Congratulations everyone, and I am glad to hear everybody had a great time. chris |
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Never heard that one, maybe in Wisconsin??? The Fat Bus Strippers was
enough to do me in! (some very sick individuals!) Heavy |
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I was trying to forget that story. Thanks buddy
"Heavy" wrote in message ups.com... Never heard that one, maybe in Wisconsin??? The Fat Bus Strippers was enough to do me in! (some very sick individuals!) Heavy |
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Here's how the fishing went for me...
Wednesday I arrived somewhere around 10:30am, checked into the cabin, unloaded and left for the ramp to fish this first day alone. I wanted to try out Warren's pattern by myself so the secret wouldn't be given up too early in the game. I dropped the boat in the water, set the GPS, and headed about 15 miles up river to Hurricane Marina. There were a few laydowns in the water, but all of the trees were out of the water since work on the dam had the lake level lowered by at least 8 feet. I fished texas-rigged small plastic around whatever wood I could find, with just a few bites. After about an hour of fishing there, I went further up river to another spot that Warren had shown me on the map. Once again, the water level ruled out this area. With the weather suppose to be changing every day of the tournament, I decided that I'd better concentrate on finding areas closer to the launch. High winds and rain is not my idea of fun when it comes to running the boat. I concentrated on points, and sheltered areas from the wind. (It worked before...) Finally, I decided that I'd had enough and headed to the cabin for a shower and food. Thursday I hooked up with Kevin. It was raining and cold. Fishing was horrible. We tried some more points with no luck, tried bluffs with no luck, tried the backs of creeks with no luck. Kevin did manage to pick up three bass on a craw, but I was still skunked. When I had about as much rain as I could stand... I pulled into a marina for a drink and bag of chips, just to get warm. I talked to a guy in the store that had been out fishing, trying to get a little advice. He'd been catching them on main lake points, 1~10 foot of water, on grubs. Gave that a try, and started getting a few hits but no takers. Finally, we decided to try the pizza pattern and loaded the boat on the trailer. Friday, Randy and I partnered up. As the others boats went speeding out of the marina at 7am, we shut off the motor and fished buzzbaits around the gazebo where I picked up my first keeper bass on the third cast. We worked to the end of the point without anything else. We took a ride up to Indian Creek and fished the points there without anything happening. The weather changes everything... so they say. Finally, we went further into the creek where Randy picked up his first keeper. The next few hours were grueling, and the thunder, lightning and rain was getting even worse. We beached the boat for about fifteen minutes to let one thunderhead pass, then took refuge inside a main point where Randy picked up another bass on a Senko. Once again, the lightning was directly overhead, so we made a quick run to the launch site to get away from it. We stayed there with Jerry for about another 15 minutes, then went back to the cove where Randy caught his last fish. I tied on a Senko and it was all over with. With the next two hours, we had seven bass in the boat, all but one on Senkos. If someone would have told me two weeks ago that we'd have taken 2nd place on the first day, I'd probably have believed them. Randy and I are known for our second place finishes, so what the hell? But, if you'd have told me that I'd be catching the fish using Senko's... I would have had a great little laugh. I have never caught a fish on a Senko in my life... and here we were plucking them out of the water in a hurry. At 2:45, we headed in for the weigh-in. Randy and I both figured that everyone else had had good days too. The rain was sure to have put a damper on some people, and it had done it's fair share on us. I was pleased to see people coming to the weigh-in station carrying only two to three fish. Some quick calculations told us that we stood a good chance. Only one limit was weighed in, and that was Sean Barton. His partner had two more fish giving them a total of seven... the same as Randy and I. When it was all said and done, we placed second behind Sean and Drew. Randy and I were still in good standings too for the overall positions, with him just a fraction behind me. Morning two I was paired with Chris Schroeder, and knew that if I started off at the dock this morning, Randy and Dave would wear us out in our honey hole before we could get over there. We launched at just about the same time and the race was on to get the best position at our cove. Dave, in his 200hp Ranger went wide... real wide, out of the no-wake zone. I took advantage of this and cut across his wake and went short. I figured that I had screwed up when I stopped to turn around and retrieve my hat that had blown off, but fortunately... the same thing had happened to Randy. Chris and I took the best position and dropped the trolling motor. The bass still had a taste for Senkos, and I put two fish in the boat rather quickly. Chris followed along and added a third fish to our weight. By 8am, I had lost a much nicer bass and added one more fish to the livewell. All of these fish were caught behind another boat that was fishing the same cove. Randy and Dave met us about halfway around the bank since they had started on the other end, but had zero fish. It wasn't long before Randy picked out a few that I had missed. For the rest of the day, our fish shut down. Chris and I tried several other areas that resembled our cove, but nothing was happening for us. We met a few others that were having a good day, so we held on to hope. Unfortunately, our day was over by 8:30. The results are posted on the Mid-Tenn Classic web-site (www.midtennclassic.org) and I'm awaiting pictures. I personally had a great time and was pleased to see a few new faces there. Hopefully we didn't run anyone off and they'll come join us again. "Chris Rennert" wrote in message ... Is there any way everyone can detail how they caught them without giving away the farm? Just curious how you guys worked through the weather situations? Congratulations everyone, and I am glad to hear everybody had a great time. chris |
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Skunked on day one,but on day 2 Ken & boated 4 fish each, with my 4 all
comming on the Chompers pumpkinseed worm with the chartreuse tip. Ken caught his on the small Brush Hog also in pumpkinseed. All the fish I caught over the 4 days were on this bait except for the bluegill I snagged while trying a Silver Buddy. |
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