Man I can't wait for the bite to start. Does anyone else fish for them in the winter? Seems all I ever see on the net is about spring and summer jumps. But I grew up fishing for them in the river here during the winter. The colder and more miserable you are the better they bite. They usually end up biting best rite at the bank where the current breaks against a little cut in the bank or in the creek mouths. It's the one time when bank fishing is better then boat.

We usually use the green and orangish yellow ( when we can find them, better then yellow )curly tail grubs. But last year I was wearing them out on a kick tail minnow. Black and silver. Feller I was talking to fishing beside me was using a white one. I'll catch every skip jack for mile around if I put on white.

It's the one time when getting hung doesn't cost you much. Anything else cheap that works I may not have heard of.

Gonna get my chain saw out and cut me a couple more places while the water is down. All the banks have fell in, in our best spots I fished as a child.

I've got a neat way of walking on mud if anyone's interested? Involves cutting out two pieces of plywood and making loops out of nylon straps that you can put your feet threw and then you can walk on top of the deepest mud with no trouble. Like a duck.

The white bass have saved many a winter day of fishing for me. They get packed in tight chasing shad in the power plant lakes during the winter. I'd much rather catch the bigger hybrids but a bunch of 1-2 pound whites are a whole lot more fun than a blank! 

 

Sounds to me like the place you're fishing would be a great place for a 3 or 4 inch Storm Wildeye shad. I've also done well in moving water for them with spoons like a 1/4oz Little Cleo or a #3 Mepps inline spinner. 

Hit the local power plant yesterday and today for couple hrs each day. Lots of stuffed small ones yesterday. Nothing but small striper/ hybrids today. And lots of rain.

Need some rain and I hate to say cold weather.

Wild eyes. would work great there only hung twice in two days. And with the water low to.

Fella next to me was killing them with a Cast Master ( spoon typ bait with white feather treble hook) haven't used them in years but all the nearby bait and tackle stores had them in stock. Cool average $3.09 each not to bad.

Hit the local power plant yesterday and today for couple hrs each day. Lots of stuffed small ones yesterday. Nothing but small striper/ hybrids today. And lots of rain.

Need some rain and I hate to say cold weather.

Wild eyes. would work great there only hung twice in two days. And with the water low to.

Fella next to me was killing them with a Cast Master ( spoon typ bait with white feather treble hook) haven't used them in years but all the nearby bait and tackle stores had them in stock. Cool average $3.09 each not to bad.

You can buy a casting spoon blank very similar to the Castmaster in 5 packs for next to nothing. Add your own treble hook and you can probably get them fro $1.50-$2 a bait I'd bet. 

 

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