My partner and I started out Friday afternoon fishing for crappie. The crappie were stagged thick on any laydown you could find, but you could not get them to look at a minnow. So we started to jig the rest of the afternoon without success. Went in and had some homemade chili and hoped the next day would be better. Water temperature 49 in the shade and 52 in the sun.
Saturday we started out F-N-F on Skull Bluff and by the end of the day we had 6 smallmouth...2 at 2+, 2 at 3+, and 2 at 4+, and 4 Kys from 2 to 3 lbs. And oh yes, not to be forgotten a 25 drum. Water temperature from 51 to 53.
Sunday we started out crappie fishing to see if they were in the mood, but no luck. We road up Sulfur Creek to see what was going on and as the water depth changed from 50 ft to 30 ft, a very interesting thing was observed. There were large schools of big fish stacked in the channel suspended from the bottom to around 10ft off the bottom. Water temperature was from 52 to 54. This is where it gets very interesting. This was around 10 a.m. in the morning when we discovered the fish. I put on a Strata spoon and soon as it hit the bottom...Bam! A 4 lb smallmouth hit it. Boated that one, took its picture and release it. And then my partner had another one on just like it on a Johnson spoon. To make a great day short, we boated at least 30 fish Sunday when stopped counting. A fourth of these fish went around 2+, a half went 3+ lbs and the other fourth went 4+ lbls, that included a 12 lb drum 4 Kys that went 2 to 3 libs and 1 largemouth at 4+ in the mix. Needless to say it was an unbelievable day of fishing. We had a number to come unbuttoned and had our 12 lb test lime broken four times.
Now, I know some you may think we are blowing steam, but that is what happened. As we came in to the dock we talked to a gentleman that asked us if we had done any good, and we said we had had one of those days you only dream about. And then he said that on Saturday those fish were pushing the shad all the way to the bank and they were catching them on crankbaits all afternoon with the same resutls that we had but it was up another creek. They said from Saturday to Sunday they had moved off the banks to the creek channels. These fish were hungry and mean. I have fished for over fifty years but have never caught the quality and numbers of fish as we did yesterday, except in private lakes. I hope you guys don't hold it against me, but that's the way it went down. All the smallmouths, the largemouth and drums were released after pictures were taken. The Kys went in the freezer last night. Merry Christmas to all! My Christmas came a little early.
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