Dale Weekend Report

[DRob3382]

was it the standard strata spoon or the bucktail strata spooon ??

[Bonefish]

It was the standard Strata spoon from BPS.

[Smally7]

Bonefish,
When you say channel, do you mean main river channel bends, or main creek channel banks?
Thanks,
Keith

[Bonefish]

We were up Sulphur Creek, not the main lake channel. From talking to the other guy that had a similar day on Saturday, the fish were in the same pattern most likely on other areas of the lake. It takes a few days to analyze what might have set up this situation Sunday. It was sunny, a little mist in the sky so the sunlight at times was filtered some. I think the water temperature at 30 feet and the shad activity had a lot to do with it. We graphed a lot of shad in that area so the bass were on a feeding frenzy for sure. Remember that on Saturday they were pushing the shad all the way into the banks in boils and on Sunday they returned to the creek channel, but were still feeding. We had just come off of a bitter cold spell and by Sunday we had a few stable days of warm weather which warmed the creeks up. We saw shad on top of the water at times during the day so the shad activity as good. Why the bass wanted the Strata spoon I think was it has small dimples that collects and reflects light. I thimk the Strata will reflect more light than the Silver Buddy. I have a feeling at that depth the spoon was picking up enough light to attract the bass because they were not hesitating once the spoon hit the bottom. Most likely the Strata spoon immitated the sad they were feeding more than anything else at that time. Both Saturday and Sunday we saw most bass fisherman using jigs on the banks which I don't think produced very well. I used a jig on Friday and Saturday with any hits.

My fishing friends have already accused me of taking the three fish sizes and taking lots of pictures over and over. I told them I wasn't that smart to think of that, so that sort of appeased them for now.