My friend and I went to a power plant lake on Saturday with our kayaks. We fished dark 30 to dark 30...Landed 49 largemouth between the two of us, and 5 stripers (three of them over the 20" size limit). We may have set a record for most baits used to catch largemouth in one day. Bass were caught on: Keitech 4" swing impact, Keitech 4.8" swing impact, Zara Spook, Lucky Craft Pointer, Drop shot, wacky trick worm, ned rig, alabama rig, shakey head, and wacky senko. No matter what we did, we could see lots of nice fish, and only caught small fish. But it's January so I can't complain! All of the stripers were caught trolling with alabama rigs when we found a large area with sporadic schooling largemouth on top, we would just troll until fish started breaking and then cast to them.

 

My only "nice" one of the day. 19" on a 4" keitech swing impact on a 1/8th oz jighead. You can tell it's a shad/herring chaser from its body structure.

Not quite like a bluebasser hybrid, but it's a start!

 

Today I went to a neighborhood lake for an hour an caught 4 small ones on a shad rap, I haven't forgotten how to catch them in cold water!

Very nice day of fishing! I'm jealous! In the Chicago area, there is no bass fishing until March or April

A nice one is a great one especially 
if there are no other ones.

A good day! Nicely done!

Congrats on a great day.

33 minutes ago, Darren. said:

A nice one is a great one especially 
if there are no other ones.

A good day! Nicely done!

It's hard to be excited about one 3lb fish when you watch dozens that size and larger swim under your kayak all day. The power plant wasn't generating much, and now I know what it's like when the guys on the Tennessee river lakes say "they ain't pullin' enough water so the fish ain't bitin'".

On 1/11/2016 at 6:34 PM, everythingthatswims said:

You can tell it's a shad/herring chaser from its body structure.

Long and lean?

6 hours ago, Paul Roberts said:

Long and lean?

And a big 'ol head. It's weird because when you catch them while they are feeding on baitfish, they will have huge guts but no bulk to the rest of their body (the opposite of the fish that @brgbassmaster is catching right now). Always swimmin'

Nice catch on the long day.I always wanted to fish that water, maybe some day still yet. 

Its winter,be happy with any pullage you can get.

On 1/15/2016 at 5:35 AM, Catch 22 said:

Nice catch on the long day.I always wanted to fish that water, maybe some day still yet. 

Its winter,be happy with any pullage you can get.

It's a pretty magical place. 

nice!