07-18-2007, 08:24 PM
Well, I made my way over to Deer Creek this morning to see what I could stir up. I finally bought myself a topo map of Deer Creek so I could try and find a few more hotspots. Last night I marked a few spots on the map to run around to today and explore. Got on the water around 6AM and headed to the first spot to check out. Started off throwing a Lucky Craft Sammy topwater bait and on the third cast got smashed by a big bass. She didn't get a good hold of the bait though and didn't eat it. Fished the sammy for another 10 minutes only to catch a bunch of dinks. Began throwing a TubeDude special buzzbait in the same area, and continued to catch small smallmouths. Then what looked to be a 13-14" smallie chased the buzzbait and swiped at it 3 times missing it every time as it came to the boat. A few casts later, a 3lb smallie viciously swiped at the buzzbait right as I was pulling it out of the water at the boat. Got fed up with these good fish not actually eating my topwaters, so I turned around and threw a bass stalker finesse jig. On back to back casts I boated a pair of 2lb smallies. Moved to the next spot to check out around 9AM. Spot number two proved to be a good largemouth area. Began throwing the buzzbait and boated a pair of largemouths 13 & 14". Then caught a bunch more small bass on the buzz. Next pass, I started throwing a lipless crankbait...caught a bunch of dinks along with four largemouths in the 12-15" range. Then I hooked into the big fish of the day around 10:45AM...an 18.5" largemouth just shy of 4lbs. That's my best largemouth yet for Deer Creek. Made another pass on this spot throwing a finesse worm on one of TubeDude's jigheads and boated 3 more largemouths 12-14". After that I made a few quick passes on a few other spots that I had marked on the map with no success but dinks. Off the water at 11:30 when my trolling motor batteried quit on me...not a bad day...
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