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[jdw174]

Got up this AM with intentions of hitting the water early.  One look at the frost on the ground made me hold up for an hour before leaving.  Launched on Ky. Lake and headed to an area known as the "smallmouth hole".  Rocks, points, dropoffs with rockpiles and stumps...all the good stuff.

Worked one cut on either side of the hole with no luck.  Came out of the second cut and set down to have coffee when I looked at the 334 on the console.   "Holy Fishscales, Batman!!!"....I'm setting over top of 15' of water with fish stacked up like wood from 10-15'.  Things only went down hill from there.  I tossed suspending jerkbaits, Silver buddies, crankbaits, Spyder jigs, plain old grubs, tubes et al for two hours in that area without so much as a tap!  (the fish never left, by the way)

Moved over to a rocky point that dropped from 3' to 20' with fish all the way from top to bottom.   Again, spyder jigs, finesse jigs, even tried a Carolina Rig, all with not so much as a sniff.  Decided to head home with my tail between my legs this time.  It never ceases to amaze me that something with a brain the size of a pea can just about drive me to drink.  

I'll get 'em next time....................... :

[Grey Wolf]

Sometimes you get them and sometimes they get you.

[fishbear]

As my daddy would say....

Somedays the bear eats,,,, some days you do..

Took me till I was about 17 to figure out what he meant.

[Catt]

That is why it's called fishing & not catching  

[Keithscatch]

In years past the only type of lure that has worked for me in these situations is a Silver Slab. Not a spoon but a slab. I am not sure what your Silver Buddie lure is but if it is not a Slab I would suggest trying that. In NOvember they used to be the best for me. Cast it and jig it and pop it like you would a worm. Don't let it hit the bottom if the fish are suspended up off of the bottom just jig it up and down and hang on.

Try that if you see it again.

One other thing, they might have been Crappie all stacked up like that. Just a thought  

[jdw174]

In years past the only type of lure that has worked for me in these situations is a Silver Slab. Not a spoon but a slab. I am not sure what your Silver Buddie lure is but if it is not a Slab I would suggest trying that. In NOvember they used to be the best for me. Cast it and jig it and pop it like you would a worm. Don't let it hit the bottom if the fish are suspended up off of the bottom just jig it up and down and hang on.

Try that if you see it again.

One other thing, they might have been Crappie all stacked up like that. Just a thought

That's one of the problems of carrying the whole tackle store in the boat.  I have a box containing jigging spoons/little georges, etc, but frankly those never occured to me :-?    I'll try to keep that in mind for next time.

Those hooks on the screen were a bit on the large side for crappie.  One thing to look for in a school is the shape of it on screen.  Crappie will most often school in a rough outline of a pine tree (read that in In-Fisherman  , and I've found it to be correct much of the time).