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I finally made it down to the big water. I had never in my life been on that lake before. Yeah, I know...WUSS!....
It was impressive to say the least. I could'nt believe just how big it was. I drove over the dam a couple of times, but to be in the lake itself and staring at the dam was unreal.
I'd like to thank BJE for taking me down there.

We put in at the State Dock, along side of John Davis. He has a few clients he was taking out. It was 38 degrees when we left the vehicle. Now for the 1st time seeing that lake it looked low. I can't imagine what it looked a couple of weeks ago. The water temp then was 44.?(7:30am). We made a short run to what would be the main lake in any other lake(other than Ky/Barkly) only to find out it was a creek...Dang...
We fished a little while in there the water had a little color. We were throwing a Duck Feather(BabyBlue Chart Craft Hair and a Duck Feather Gray/Pink Craft Hair.)Heard a flock of turkeys off on one of those islands squawkin' to be haitis...Had a pulldown..did'nt hook up.
Moved and made a run down to Beaver...(another small lake itself)pulled up in there looking for some shade. We found some. Not much but just enough in the right spot. Water has some color also. We fished there a little and I hooked up with a spot...about 1-1.5. Nice slow pull down, good hookset, in the boat. Trolled about 20yds and then hooked up with a 18.5, 3.4lb smallmouth. The bobber went down with a nice slow pull. Almost thought it was a limb or grass pull-down(we had some wind), but when I set the hook it was a fish. It felt like a wet sock un til BJE looked him in the eye and he dove. Got him in the boat, weighed, took a pic, and released.(Well, we had to do the big high-5 on that one..LOL!)

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We motored up further and ran into some real stained water. We turned to come back out and found a shaded cut and decided to try it. After losing a couple of jigs, I had a Charlie/Jack Special tied on and BJE had tied on a BROWN duck feather. We let the wind blow us sideways back into this small cut when BJE hooked up with a 17in smallie. We landed it, took a pic, and released. I hooked up there shortly after that with a 10in spot.
Not bad for a pocket of stained water.


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We fooled around there a little more and head back out. By the time we got a call from John Davis and he had caught a 5.3.


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So we wanted to look at it and get a picture. We ran down to Indian Creek because I wanted to see the dam. Drove up in there and found a places out of the sun. John found us and showed the big brown toad....it was awesome.

He left and we fished another spot. I threw up on a bank and worked the cast the way I usually do. No takers so as I went to real it in....HOOKUP> I got the 3.7 on the line...Landed, photoed, and turned loose...After a couple of more high 5's we headed back to PUmpkin and the takeout....


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We caught another 3.5 and had a couple more take downs.


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It was awesome and I'm ready to go back....

Thanks again Brent..

Billy




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