We went to Motts Run Reservoir today from 8:00am until 2:00pm. Some people caught fish and some didn't. The biggest caught was by a member of our club, Warren Gallahan who caught a 4.5 pounder. I teamed up with Randy Beasley in his "Sea Nymph" (16' jon boat with compartments, etc.). Randy and I had little luck, Randy missed one small fish on a log, and I missed 6 fish! one was at least two pounds! I was using my Culprit Finesse worm Texas style, we were fishing snags (trees, grass, etc.) and the thumps of the branches felt like snags (I know I lost at least 4 worm hooks and bullet weights and god knows how many culprit worms!!!). So every fish I missed felt like snags so I was kind of afraid to set the hook thinking it was a snag, but instead to get it off the "snag" I gave it a harder twitch which apparently in some cases they were fish. And with that hard twitch it barely set the hook in. I brought 1 to the boat today and unfortunately Randy didn't bring any...

When I lost that 2 pounder you could hear me cussing from space! Randy knows lol! And when Randy lost his fish, he drew the attention of some locals on the Lake with his swearing lol!

NOTE TO RANDY: Just like I say, "When in doubt set the hook!" (don't worry I need to adhere to that quote from me as well!) I just need to buy more worm hooks, bullet weights and culprit finesse worms lol!!!!

Other than that it was a great day, good to spend time on the water with a friend and enjoy the outdoors. I am proud to say I didn't touch my spinnerbait!! (usually that's all I fish with), instead I was kind of stubborn with that finesse worm lol! I did throw a chatter-bait once or twice but otherwise that was it. All day long me and Randy threw finesse worms (Randy did also throw a chatterbait a few times). Mainly our hits were coming from our worms.

That cold front last night really changed the fish up...it got below freezing last night!!!!   Hopefully the next week or so will be warm.

God bless  8-)

That's one of the reasons it's called fishing not catching!  Keeps you coming back for more!

Did anybody boat a limit?  How many boats entered?  I fished Motts a lot last year but didn't have too much luck, I know they're in there though, I've seen a ton of big bass when they were shallow for the spawn.  Catching them is a whole other story

For us it was just a jon boat tournament. We had like 7 or 8 jon boats, and like 2 or 3 big bass boats (used trolling motor only), but nobody caught their limit, I would have had my limit if I would have set a better hookset on all the fish I missed. A few nice fish were weighed in (like I noted above) and like 5 people didn't catch anything. It was pretty tough, the cold front that blew in the night before sent the bass deeper. A few were shallow, I seen a 10" bass sitting on a stump in like 2 feet of water and tons of little bass (4"-6") sitting under submerged logs. Most of my hits come from deep areas, with the exception of the one I caught which come from maybe 3-4' off of the beaver dam.

I think in my spare time I am going to head back and fish it again. It would certainly be a blast! I think yesterday I had more hits than anybody and I would have had either 1st or 2nd if I would have bagged all the ones I lost lol!

I agree with you 100% niksfishinmom!

God bless  8-)