It was a beautiful morning weather wise. When we arrived at the ramp, it was around 57 degrees with a breeze coming out of the southwest at 5-15. I was happy with the cool weather, but the wind was not what I needed for my topwater pattern.
We eased out of the state park around 6:00 am and started on a main lake point just down from LHSP. I caught a nice 14" smallie on the popper, and lawrence landed a 13 1/2 " brown fish on a 1- crankbait. We missed a couple more here, but I had other places to hit before the sun killed the bite. We eased down lake to hole in the wall island, and I caught one short fish, but that was it.
We moved over to the bluff end across the lake, and one other short fish came over the gunnel rail.next we moved down to the next pocket down lake, only to find Noah had already hit the stuff I wanted to fish. I did manage a couple of small club keepers here, but it was time to move. Next, we fished a cut in bear Island that as still holding some shade. I nailed a keeper spot and a 15" largemouth on the spook here.
I now had 5 club keepers in the boat. We bounced around a lot in the lower end. On our first stop by an island near the dam, I hadn't even put the trolling motor down yet, and a huge school of fish cam up schooling over 97 ft of water! I started throwing the fluke, and LW chunked a trap. We landed 3-4 fish here, and I was able to upgrade once.
It was now around 10 am, and we fished with no success for another hour, and then Noah called. He was dead in the water, so we ran down lake and towed him back to the ramp. That ate up most of the rest of our time, and we didn't land anything else.
I ended up with 5 fish for 6.5 lbs, which was good for first place, and I closed out the AOY title.
Tough fishing, but I was happy to have 5.
RBK
2 comments:
Congratulations on being Angler of the Year, well deserved.
Thanks Bill. Weird year. Very consistent but very few good uns. KY lake should be good.
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