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Played hooky again...
Skipped out of work today. Went fishing at Geist Reservoir in Central
Indiana. Front was approaching and I thought it would be a great opportunity to hit some active fish. Water temp was 66 when I finally got there at 9:00am. Had a few trailer wiring problems. Fishing started out pretty good...had a 14 incher on a deep diving crankbait within the first half hour. Another one got off a few minutes later. Felt like a decent one. Had an hour and a half dry spell, so I switched to jig and pig and started fishing in the weeds. The weeds are an emergant type, with thin willow like leaves and about 10-12 inches sticking out of the water, over about two feet of water. Within the first three casts I pulled out a chubby 17.5" LM that weighed in at 3lb3oz. Snapped a picture and continued, thinking I had the pattern nailed. As overcast as it was (and spitting rain occasionally) I was a little surprised to find that bass in the weeds. I would have thought they would have been active and pretty spread out away from the cover. At least on the outside of the weeds. This guy was way in there. Pitched and pitched and pitched... Decided after about an hour and several hundred feet of weeds that this jig wasn't cutting it. Switched to the spinnerbait and continued pitching it into the weeds. Caught another 14" within the next couple casts. Now I think, this is the ticket. Pitch and pitch and pitch that spinnerbait. Started switching up, trying a few different places. Finally head towards the bridge near the ramp, thinking I'm going to be giving up shortly. At this point, I have three fish, all keepers, and have been fishing for nearly 4 hours without a bite. Had worn out the spinnerbait and jig. Pull out my old trusty Bill Norman Deep Baby N crankbait and begin casting to the bridge. On the third cast, I catch my fourth keeper, another 14.5" fish. Three or so casts later, I pull a 15.5" off the bridge piling. I cast for another 10 minutes, catching a 16.5", 2lb 7oz off another piling. Decide after a couple dozen more casts that it's time to head out. Left the lake around 4:30pm. Final total for the day 6 fish - 6 keepers. Saw several balls of shad in coves, heading towards the backs of them. Looks like Fall is here. All-in-all, I'm glad I went! :-) It was worth the days vacation. Will post a couple pics over at APBF a little later... -- Andrew Kidd http://www.amiasoft.com/ - Software for the rest of us! http://www.rofb.net/ - ROFB Newsgroup Home |
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Played hooky again...
Thanks for the report Andrew. That's a good day for Geist, at least it is IMO!
I may put it in for this falls Classic. I hate those weeds. It takes forever to fish'em as there are miles and miles of them in that lake and the fish could be anywhere in them as there seems to be no real feature near any of them but 2' of water. Brad Brad Coovert, 2003 Tournament Director, Greenfield Bassmasters Please visit our sponsors: http://www.geocities.com/greenfieldb...ponsorPage.htm |
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Played hooky again...
No problem Brad. It was a real wierd day. I will let you know this: I
didn't go beyond the marina bridge. All the fish were caught between the Olio rd bridge and the marina bridge. I'll email you the details of locations if you'd like. -- Andrew Kidd http://www.amiasoft.com/ - Software for the rest of us! http://www.rofb.net/ - ROFB Newsgroup Home "Brad Coovert" wrote in message ... Thanks for the report Andrew. That's a good day for Geist, at least it is IMO! I may put it in for this falls Classic. I hate those weeds. It takes forever to fish'em as there are miles and miles of them in that lake and the fish could be anywhere in them as there seems to be no real feature near any of them but 2' of water. Brad Brad Coovert, 2003 Tournament Director, Greenfield Bassmasters Please visit our sponsors: http://www.geocities.com/greenfieldb...ponsorPage.htm |
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Played hooky again...
All the fish were caught between the
Olio rd bridge and the marina bridge. I'll email you the details of locations if you'd like. If we draw out Geist, I'll let you know. I usually go as far as up as I can go in the two large arms at Devil's Elbow and throw cranks all day. Gave me two wins in two weeks on Geist when the lake was hit with the big drawdown during the drought year. Have you fished Summit Lake any this year? They have some team tourneys that are taking 25-30lbs. to win on big cranks like DD22's and Fat Free Shads. 10 fish limit I assume. A few guys may put that in the draw for our classic and one guy is planning on putting St. Joe in. I'd put Glenn Flint back in again, but there is a club with about 25 boats having a two day tourney there that weekend. That's about all the boats that lake can handle. I'll be prefishing the river at Broad Ripple on 10/4. I'll let you know if I have an open seat. I'd be fishing today, but last nights monsoon probably has the river up and muddy and I have bronchitis :-(. Also, if the river does get too nasty to fish, Geist is our dump lake. Brad Coovert, 2003 Tournament Director, Greenfield Bassmasters Please visit our sponsors: http://www.geocities.com/greenfieldb...ponsorPage.htm |
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Played hooky again...
"Brad Coovert" wrote in message ... All the fish were caught between the Olio rd bridge and the marina bridge. I'll email you the details of locations if you'd like. If we draw out Geist, I'll let you know. I usually go as far as up as I can go in the two large arms at Devil's Elbow and throw cranks all day. Gave me two wins in two weeks on Geist when the lake was hit with the big drawdown during the drought year. Have you fished Summit Lake any this year? They have some team tourneys that are taking 25-30lbs. to win on big cranks like DD22's and Fat Free Shads. 10 fish limit I assume. A few guys may put that in the draw for our classic and one guy is planning on putting St. Joe in. I'd put Glenn Flint back in again, but there is a club with about 25 boats having a two day tourney there that weekend. That's about all the boats that lake can handle. I'll be prefishing the river at Broad Ripple on 10/4. I'll let you know if I have an open seat. I'd be fishing today, but last nights monsoon probably has the river up and muddy and I have bronchitis :-(. Also, if the river does get too nasty to fish, Geist is our dump lake. Just let me know about the river fishing. I think I have Saturday open. Should be pretty quiet there by now. I think the skiers might have hung it up for the year on the river. But then again I saw a skier out yesterday on Geist, and it was all of 55 degrees air temp with the water at 66-64 degrees. The fish at Summit were hitting buzzbaits early morning up close to the weeds a couple weeks ago. Caught a few fishing cranks over the weeds later, but it's really strenuous fishing with the rod tip that high to get over the weeds. Fished earlier in the year and had quite a bit of success with the cranks over the weeds. I usually use a white with lt purple back... I suppose a spinnerbait in white with a white or silver willow leaf blade would probably do the trick as well. I've had excellent days at Summit fishing the spinnerbait to the edge of the weeds, then killing it to let it drop down the edge of the weeds. -- Andrew Kidd http://www.amiasoft.com/ - Software for the rest of us! http://www.rofb.net/ - ROFB Newsgroup Home |
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Played hooky again...
Thanks for the info on your Summit trips. I've never fished it in a boat, only
from the shore and that was when I was a kid and the lake was not open yet to the public. Is there a map of Summit? Brad Coovert, 2003 Tournament Director, Greenfield Bassmasters Please visit our sponsors: http://www.geocities.com/greenfieldb...ponsorPage.htm |
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