Report for Sunday Feb 3rd

[reellittlephish]

While everyone else was eating chicken and watching Superbowl, I went back out for a re-match.

Launched around noon. Flat conditions. More sun than the weather predicted. Water temp 56.5 at the ramp. Motored out to where I saw bass Saturday afternoon and could not get bit. Moved to 3 different locations but stayed in that general area and tried dropshotting also for nothing. Surface in the sun warmed to 57

Finished the day the front end of another cove were I pulled a largemouth off a shallow pocket( maybe 5 ft...go figure.) on a dropshot. As I went to swing him the fluorocarbon line broke at the Palomar knot. Pretty fresh tie also. Was not retreaded either. That was a first. Water in the cove around 57.

Right after that the Lowrance began acting up and I couldn't tell where I was on top of a deep reef. Threw over instead of on the side and lost another tungsten drop shot set up which kind of set the mood. You don't lose those that often.

Then one second to last try off know corner inside the cove and got tapped but didn't hook up. Finished fishing a hump mid cove...also nothing.

Still on jigs, dropshot, weightless plastic as terrain suggest. With some ripple I would have tried jerking a crankbait but it was glassy out there. A lot floating algae and trash in the water.
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[wolfs4evr]

I know many claim that the Palomar is the bomb for most everything but I have yet to figure that out. I have watched a few videos on it on how important it is to not let the lines twist, etc during the knot tying process. A double Palomar is the bomb on Braid and that is the only time I use a Palomar (the only knot I use with Braid). I use the Berkley Braid Knot for Fluorocarbon and Mono (4-5 twists with 8/15lb Seaguar InvisX and 5 twists with 8lb Trilene XL mono). WAY stronger knot than the Palomar for me for both lines (On the funny side that knot doesn't work well with Braid for me... Go figure the name). I spent a boat load of time in the garage tying knots on the end of 5 foot lengths of Braid/Fluorocarbon/Mono and connecting one end to something in the vice and the other end on a digital fish scale and pulling till sometime broke. Watching the numbers, where it broke, etc to come up with what best works for me.

Again the Palomar is suppose to be the Fluorocarbon bomb but I guess I just don't tie it correctly... I lost faith/confidence in it and rarely go back to it any more.

Side note... You can't use that Berkley Braid Knot on something wide/fat. It needs to be a eye of a hook, etc. I tried it once on a "different" style spinnerbait that had a really fat piece of brass collar on it that you had to tie to and the knot slipped. That is the only lure in my boat I have to so something different with.

We caught 2 LMB Saturday in less than 5 feet of water on Spinnerbaits (extreme SW end of the Overton Arm). I haven't seen a smallie in monthsssss anywhere. I have no idea where those critters hide or how to find them. lol Anytime I find anything on the sonar in deep water it ends up being carp. Deep water/cold water bass fishing eludes my tail big time. No idea'r.
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