10-22-2010, 09:00 AM
Fishing has been improving this week. I was off the water from Thur-Sun for honey-do reasons (3yr old birthday party), I heard the bite was extremely tough over the weekend. Surface temps this week have been ranging from 68-73 and visibility is fantastic on the main lake but some of the creeks, Woodring and Johnson &quot;Beach&quot; Creek are turning pretty bad.<br /><br />Patterns this week have been rather diverse. I&#39;ve caught spots from the surface to 45ft deep, fish are all over the water column right now. Swimbaits, Fish Head Spins, Jerkbaits, Sb&#39;s, Cranks, Jig Heads/Grubs, and Drop Shots have all caught fish, nothing is working great so just throw everything you got. The best numbers bait for me has been the drop shot. In a good school you can load the boat but fishing is slow until you find em. Typical Fall Spotted Bass on Carters.<br /><br />I was out today with Zack Manning of Chatsworth from 7am-1230pm. Zack and I had a great day boating some healthy spotted bass including a kicker 4.5lbr. Zack also caught his first striper on a High Powered Herring. The salty put on a show engulfing the swimbait on top :^) Zack also wanted to learn about sight fishing today so we ran a couple of schools and caught some nice spots out deep as well. We had a good half day and no spots under 2lbs either which is always a plus. Enjoyed it Zack and thanks again.<br /><br />If anyone is interested in getting out to work on your sight fishing skillz or try your hand at the meanest bass in freshwater drop me a line.<br /><br /><br />LB