Brookville Lake - 9/2/06

[Fishhead]

Water temp: 77 to 81
Clarity: lightly stained to clear

A buddy and I fished Brookville from Sat PM to Sunday AM caught total of 17 bass with 10 keepers, 13 smallies and 4 greenies. Biggest bass was a 19-inch, 4.0 lb smallmouth with absolutely beautiful markings; big LM was 3.5 lb. Hooked at least another 5 fish that threw the bait. Not a bad night/day.

We fished the lower section of the lake from sunset to dawn then moved up to the No Wake zone for a few hours in the morning. We fished banks with a steeper slope into deeper water, flats with the main river or creek channel close by and main lake points. Most of the bites in the dark came in water 6-12 ft deep with a few fish right on the bank, but the bites that were close to the bank had some wood cover with deep water nearby. The morning bite was in 10-25 ft of water.

Period from sunset to midnight produced 4 or 5 bass with 2 keepers. From midnight to 4am was slow, only a couple of smallmouth. Then from 4am to 8am the feedbag was on, 9 fish with 6 SM and 3LM.

The 2 biggest fish came from about 4-8ft of water but right on a break that dropped off to 30+ ft. I think they had just moved up to feed in that twilight period just before dawn. We had fished this same area around 2-3 AM with a couple small fish, went back around 4am, popped the 2 bigger fish and a few more, all between 4:30 and 5:30am

We caught more SM than LM but in all fairness we were targeting smallies for most of the night on banks with rock/gravel bottom, some wood and grass cover. Once the sun came up we moved up lake to the more stained water and picked up a mix of 50/50 LM & SM. But again the bottom was rock/gravel with wood and grass cover.

Used Tx-rigged tubes, worms, jigs and crankbaits. Most of the fish were caught tubes and jigs but after the sun came up we started to pick some up on the crankbait and a worm.

[lov2fish]

Craig, nice report, thanks sir!!!

[Topwater2004]

Stream fishing for smallmouth is really picking up just this week.

A co-worker and I went out last Sunday on a wade trip, caught lots of numbers and a couple lunkers too.

Fish are very aggressive with the temperature drop off in the creeks.

topwater