Fishing a flurry! (not a snow flurry)

[smljaw]

I know you have all had those fishing flurries that stay in your mind for life! You know what I'm talking about. You've fished all day and you pull up on that magic spot and just whack em! Here are a few of mine.

1) Fishing Cave Run Lake in June, probably 20-25 yrs ago. Jabbo and I fish all day. We managed about 5 dinks. At about 7PM we motor into Scott Creek and see a guy slinging a topwater bait. We chat with him for a few and he says, "Boys, don't leave this creek tonight without throwing a Rat L Trap." Ol Jabbo and I look at each other and tie one on. If memory serves correctly, we go on to catch 17 bass from 7PM til dark. Most were 1-3 pounds. I think we had a couple in the 3-4 pound range. Jabbo busted one off that probably went 7 or so. He would tell you it was 10.

2) Fishing Shenandoah River, Virginia back around 1995. Waded up river throwing a grub. Found a good looking spot in the river and locked in. Caught 17 smallies in 21 casts.

3) Fising a deep hump on Lake El Salto, July 2005. Caught 15-20 bass in about 45 minutes. 1 over 7 and 2 over 8.

Well, there are a few of mine. Great memories that I'll never forget. What about some of your flurry memories?

COME ON WARM WEATHER!!!

[DJD]

Well...I had taken a few family friend fellas from Japan fishing for Redfish in the Mosquito Lagoon in Titusville, Florida. These guys had never been fishing from a boat before and we got on em real good that day. 15# redfish were in hugs schools chasing baitfish and swimming under our boat making the water almost copper colored. These guys couldn't speak English but their smiles and eyes spoke volumes! We had boated three and even had a double on several times. It was a trip of a lifetime for them and they talk about it with fond memories still.

Hit Farm 13 in Florida when it really didn't have a ramp just a hillside muddy bank. We started tossing floating Rapalas and could watch 2-5# fish make a "V" toward the baits and then explode on them. The three of us boated over a hundred bass easy that day. This was a rountine for a year or so...sometimes it was Culprit worms or spinnerbaits that worked.
Of course this was a long time ago just after they opened it up to fishing and it was awesome!!

Cedar Creek was the same way when it first opened. Sure the fish were not as big but man we wore out the 11-14" bass for hours time and time again.

Thats a few and now I'm ready to hit the water er I mean ice.

[striperfishin]

Everytime i have fished Lake St. Clair, Michigan.

LSC, Once I caught 13 smallmouth in 13 casts - all 3 + LBS. My partner at the same time caught 12 in 12 casts. Fishing was great all day but these fish came off one particular ledge dropping from 3 to 5 feet.


Lake Cumberland. While fishing for stripers, didnt see a fish all day long. While I manned the planer boards, my partner goes up to steer the trolling motor. he ties on rapala countdown and pulls in about 15 smallmouth in 30 minutes. I sat and watched him catch them fish and my shad (drifting off the planar boards) started catching smallies, too. there must have been hundreds of smallmouth bass stacked on this one long bank in Otter Creek.

[Shimano4Life]

This is not nearly as good as above, but my partner and I were fishing a tournament two years ago. After the takeoff, we run up to a bank we had never fished before. Why? I have no idea, but the wind was pushing up to this bluff wall that had a huge flat out in front about 10-12ft deep. We proceeded to limit out in a matter of 10 min and draw a check that night.

For all the pond fishermen, on Dec. 31st of 2007 we had some unseasonably warm weather for about a week or so. I chose to hit up a farm pond that I have fished since I was a child. It is a wildlife sanctuary, but is not open to the public. The gentleman that owns and manages the pond is retired from KDFWR. I left my girlfriend at the time (now my wife) at my mother's house and walked across the road and down the gravel driveway to the huge pond. Lots of cover and humps -- even a pretty good size island in the middle. I was only there for about an hour, but caught fish on about every cast. All fish anywhere from 1-4lbs. Then the action died off. Right before I left, I told myself the infamous phrase "One more cast." The last cast resulted in a 6lber and I was able to weigh it, take some pics, and release it back into the pond to grow even bigger. Happy New Year's to me. Went fishing the next day, New Year's Day, at Cumberland and caught a personal record smallmouth.

I will always remember these days. Although they're not spectacular to some, they will always be to me. It's also what keeps me coming back.

[offdtop]

I've had a few flurries if you will, My first was on KY Lake in the summer of '98 and we were fishing in the evening and it began to rain but we didn't want to quit fishing so we headed closer to the dock and it let up and we decided to stay out. Well that night the clouds cleared rather quickly as they do with a summer storm, and the biggest full moon you ever seen appeared and we commenced to chunking buzzbaits on a point and all of a sudden we caught 7 or 8 bass that all weighed over 3lbs in consecutive cast!!!

The second time was in a tournament on Pickwick lake in October and we had struggled all morning and my son (then was 12 or 13 yrs old) caught a 3lbder and as we finished putting it in the box I noticed a single shad/minnow flicker and threw a hook some bass spinnerbait in blue glimmer and caught our limit in 4 of 5 casts and my son just sat in the bottom of the boat going "dad this is ridiculous can I fish?".

The last time was last summer, after taking a guide trip/ledge fishing class with Dave Stewart I set out on my own to find some ledges... well my son (now 19 at the time) was with me skeptical to say the least saw me set the hook into a 4-1/2 smallmouth and for the next 15 minutes I couldn't tell you the weight we had amassed - I know our best 5 was well over 23lbs, with a mixture of large and smallmouths - Awesome.

Guitar players get into a "zone" as where no matter what note they play is right and sounds awesome, every one will tell you that is why they play to hit that "zone" and when it happens in fishing it is just as awesome even if it only last for 15 minutes a year it is why I love bass fishing.

[mhall]

I have quite a few of these in my head. A few that stick out are one from Dale Hollow.
It was the first week of June fairly hot and the day bite was suppose to be totally over according to everybody. I'm going past Troopers Island at full plane and see a jump going on, so I go over to check it out, it was jsut after first light, you know that sweet time. I slow and troll over and for the next thirty to forty minutes I busted three limits of magnum Spots, that's 18, three largeheads from 14 to 17 inches and five smallmouth from 17 to 20 inches long. In fact three of the smallies were in that 20 inch range. Lost several more and missed a bunch all on Sammy's and my special Spook.

Another time at The Falls of The Ohio fishing the boils. I find the sweet spot right before dark and catch 23 Hybrids and about 10 to 15 whites in less than hour. All Hybrids were solid fish with the biggest being in the 5 to 7lb range. Whites were all 12 to 16 inches long and again everything on topwater, it was every cast almost.

Cumberland in early April 2004, I get on a jerkbait bite, best five smallmouth that evening was over 20#, had about 12 or so for the evening and they were hitting it so hard they would make you fumble the rod and almost drop it.

[Embrey]

hadnt caught many fish all day and had about 30 minutes till dark. we headed across lake and pulled up on a spot i liked. wasnt there 5 minutes.caught a 5lb...then pulled up and headed back across the lake to another spot. wasnt there 5 minutes and pounded a 5.5lb. good day

[smljaw]

Hey DJD, Jabbo and I fished Stick Marsh back in the day as well. Spring 1992 was our first trip down there. Back in '92 the ramp was dirt and access was tough but the fishing was out of this world! We whacked 'em on Slug-Os and Spinnerbaits for the most part. I bet we lost ten fish that trip between 8 and 11 pounds. We were young, inexperienced and not well prepared. We talk all the time about wanting to have that trip back with the knowlwedge we have now.

[DJD]

Oh yeah that place was unreal! It's not the same thats for sure. I guess I was there 7-8 years ago and I was surprised at how the ramp and facilities were. I'm glad I got to hit it when it had just opened up.

[Todd2]

About 15 years ago, I rode out to Bernheim forest with a buddy and we pulled up at the lake. Nobody was there and we started fishing, I was throwing a white spinnerbait. First cast, bam caught one, second cast, another, I made about a dozen casts and think I caught about 7 or 8 bass. About that time, here comes the park ranger in his truck, mad as heck. As it turns out, we went to the wrong lake. He said "don't you see that sign", I looked over and saw the back of a sign, he said if you walk around to the front it say's "No fishing". It was a small stock lake for the big lake that did allow fishing. I thought I was Bill Dance for about 5 mins.

[dc chopper]

Peabody about 7 years ago, we caught between 150 -200 bass in one day nothing huge but all 14-16" range. Since they pulled the fish out and took them to Cedar, nowhere near that and I mean nowhere.

[Col Forbin]

Most of mine come from the last few years on Ky lake.

Probably the most memorable was fishing a Tuesday Night tournament out of the moors. My partner and I had one keeper in the boat at 9:30 (you weigh in at 10:00). We pulled up to one bank/point. And caught six keepers in the last 20/30 minutes. The biggest being over seven, the rest in the 4 to 5 pound range.

A couple of years ago in a little club tournament. I had five keepers in the first 30 minutes and continued to catch them like that all day. Caught close to a hundred, and over 30 keepers. Most were all around the same size, not too big, but keepers.