Pickwick Lake Elevation 410
Water Temp. 44
BASS
The cold and rainy weather has slowed down some of my fishing trips over the
past few weeks. I fished under windy conditions Monday because but the water
was so muddy I had to look for places to fish. I had to disregard the
dramatic weather changes and fish like I normally would for this time of
year. Using the same baits and methods I would in the past worked out fine
for me now even under these crazy weather changes. To catch bass I had to
stay shallow and although I did not catch anything big in shallow water I
did catch a good number of fish. I fished along river banks, cranking
Strike King Series 3 crank baits real slow to catch the majority of
bass.This is actually a good time of year to catch a really big fish on
these baits using these methods if you can stand the weather.
White bass
White bass continue to bite. I have caught them mostly on grubs and small
crank baits while bass fishing. Some banks will just have more white bass
than large mouths and small mouths, these banks tend to be gravel banks and
sandy banks. The areas I have caught a good number of white bass in have
been between the Dam and Savannah, I would not put much faith in catching
them in the lake right now.
Stripers
Stripers remain tough. I do not expect to catch a large number of stripers
right now but they will start biting real soon. I do not start really
striper fishing until mid to late March.
Sauger
Sauger have been really tough. With the muddy water I believe the more
productive areas are in deeper water, These deeper water areas are usually
good anytime sauger are biting anyway I just put more faith in the deeper
water bites when the river is as muddy as it is now. Dark colored sauger
jigs seemed to work better. I often check deeper depths and more shallow
depths to check to see if they are more productive.