Surprise today

I haven’t been able to get to the lake in the last 4 weeks.  Today was the first time that wind and temp were decent.  It was 35° when I launched.  There were only 3 rigs in the lot.  The water had dropped to 46° and my mind said they may be deep so I started fishing a bluff end channel swing.  I spent about an hour with the boat on 30’+ and got no bites so I started moving in.

I went to several good smallmouth rocky areas and picked up one on a worm in about 12 fow.  Working around the area I found some shallower bites.  I spent the rest of the day fishing windy, rocky “smallmouth” water.  I wound up boating 11 bass with 9 of them being largemouth.  5 of the largemouth were nice keepers and one of my 2 smallmouth kept.

I had 2 surprises today….  The fish were still shallow and decent largemouth were in the smallmouth areas.