Ended up at Cumberland on Friday 12/9. Morning was brutal cold, guide eyes kept freezing over and lost 2 crankbaits when the guide on my reel froze over and snapped my line. First 2 hours didn't get a bite. Started at the mouth of Greasy Creek and worked the bank down past where the water collector is by the island back there, have always had good luck on that stretch.
As soon as the sun peeked out I started getting bit, to my surprise, mainly on football jigs being thrown in 30 feet of water parallel to the bank and being worked back towards me. The bite was subtle, caught 3 nice 17-19 inchers doing that. Most of the time I felt pressure working the jig, there was no real aggressive bite.
Caught 2 more similarly sized on a orange belly craw 3xd being worked parallel to the chunk rock banks back there. Biggest fish was a 3.6lber that I caught cast past where she was chasing some shad towards the middle of the creek. She was breaking water and porpoising chasing a shad, I casted past reeled back towards the action and sure enough, BAM! Picture attached. This was on a chrome/blue Rat L trap.
Caught a few more smaller ones on a brown crawdad wiggle wart. By the way, I think their trebles aren't good out of the box. I'm going to start putting Owner ST-36s on these things because I've had more fish come off on these lures.
Caught 9 total. Lost 2. Fished 4 hours. It was COLD!!! All fish were brown fish.
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