11/21/15 Early Winter Bassin'
With almost a week of steady weather decided to rent a boat solo. Haven't been on the lake in over a month, but I had already been aware of the lake being in the midst of winter transition. Right away wanted to look for baitfish so I went straight to an area that had been holding all fall and sure enough big schools of silversides were huddled up tight to the shore on the highside of a scattered rockpile. Periodically bass would swoop in on them in the shallows or chase them out on the surface into deeper water for some early morning breakfast. Worked that area for a couple hours and had a steady pick using a lucky craft pointer 78, basstrix glass minnows, clone frys, and senkos.
Weather forecast said there would be 9-13mph wind all day, which is a big reason why I chose to go. But that never really happened it was more like 5-8mph sporadically from both east and west. Once the sun was high mid morning and it was dead calm with no current things kinda died down so off I went to fish some deeper rocky points found a couple on the c-rig in about 30-40ft of water. Kinda got bored with that and decided to just crank the rest of my time there since most of the grass has died off. Got some more to play down deep in the rocks 25+ft had to kneel and reel to get it down there. Also was visited by the almighty elusive flathead catfish he absolutely crushed the crank, thought it was a nice bass until I felt head shakes. Was pretty interesting trying to get him into the boat by myself, he wasn't too happy with a mouth full of trebles haha.
Other than some of the flurries first thing in the morning the bass were pretty lethargic. Every single reaction bait fish was hooked on the outside of the mouth or with just one treble in. Crankbait fish were caught by slooowly ticking the rocks. A lot of areas were void of life but the areas with either wind, current, and/or bait were certainly most productive.
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Originally Posted by GdHkSet1
