Headed up to dreamstrike tomorrow morning, early. Bringing my new christmas rods and reels to break in. Along with some new tackle. Spinnerbaits, chatterbaits, and swimbaits.

Who knows how it will go. Decent reports this past week. No hawgs, but plenty of school size fish getting shallow. Not sure how this bad storm and cool front will relate to the fishing.

Should be high 30's in the early am up to the 60's by afternoon. I usually get up there around 6-6:30 and stay til maybe noon at the latest. Not bringing EVERYTHING, but a good assortment of some new cranks/lipless too. I'll have the phone/camera and the gopro. Hope we "keep busy".

Arrived about 6:30am, temp was 34. brrrr. Water temp was 55, got up to 57.

Beat the banks with spinnerbaits and chatterbaits for about an hour. Caught a handful, all were less than 2#.

Threw a frog when the sun came out, alot of weeds, overgorwn on the shore, water was highest I have seen it, and almost milky, vis. was less than a foot. Wind picked up, blew me around too much to keep at it with the frog...I forgot my bizzbaits frog...arg.had to use a spro. no bites.

I was not seeing any top water/shad chasing activity except one fish busted the surface towards the middle. Only once. Started throwing the 10-16' deep cranks in about 15-20' Got git first cast. Ok...Kept on, changed cranks and colors. nothing. Switched up to a lipless, kept it deep, nothing. Put on a 3.8 keitech fat with a keel wieght screwlock hook. 3rd cast, I have the bait maybe 5 feet from the boat, ready to pull it up and recast and BAM! It got hit so hard my line just snapped. So, I missed 2 so far, one other on a spinnerbait short strike earlier.

I had moved earlier to 25' water, now I put on a swim jig, slow roll off the bottom at first, nothing, so I switched up and kept it no more than 10' deep. That was the ticket. Mutliple hookups. That died off, so I went with a shad/gold red eye shad lipless. 3 straight casts, 3 fish. Keeping it up above 10" depth was money. Then I got hung up...tried for 15 minutes to get it. Long story.... I did save my dt crank with a knocker today!

I did throw the spro rat, but the big'uns are not shallow enough yet. Did not mark any fish on the bottom, they came in shallow or high up in deep water. Was a pretty good day. A couple more weeks and it's on.

 

this little guy above hit an Ike's demon DT16 on the first cast, had to laugh, the lure could almost eat him.

 

 

Looks like a good day.

Can't complain. Stayed a little longer than usual, none of my kids wanted to get up at 4:15 this morning to make the drive.

Sometimes it's good to fish, not to talk, and not to hear anyone talking. 

Enjoying the silence.....then my phone rings.

Great report atocha, great job on putting the puzzle together and coming up with a good day, congrats and thanks for sharing !!

nice!

Headed back up in the morning. Forecast says no rain and slight winds. Taking my youngest daughter(11), she loves to go, and has the patience of a saint...my son is another story. Going to try out some new squarebills/crankbaits. Looking forward to it!

Will post some pics sometime tomorrow.

Well, total waste. Got there at right at dawn. Beautiful morning. Beat the banks around the entire lake with different color spinnerbaits. Got a single dink. Threw the squarebills and the new crush 75. Caught a bunch of muck. Even my daughter was bored and ready to go after an hour, and she is usually not like that. Tried some wacky rigs...

Wind picked up about 7:30, stayed constant, picked up a little, making it hard, but I stayed for awhile, trying just about one of everything.

Water was 64, and visibility was >1'

Murky as can be, my little lowrance did not even mark any fish, it rarely does, it's more of a depth/temp tool really. Don't ever buy the elite 3x, they are garbage. Save your money, or just do without, I should have.

We only stayed 3 hours, and headed home. I'm headed for the couch to get some shuteye, then maybe watch the race, then to Mom's, she making fried chicken, what a treat.  Everyone loves "grandma'a fried chicken".