Ok, so I am a new fisherman. I am 34 and began fishing this year, even bought a boat about a month ago (Tracker Avalanche).
I am trying to learn, want to learn, and want to catch fish. I have some friends of mine that fish tourneys, and know of others in my area. Basically they are no real help. Oh I suppose they are of help, but I get really tired of hearing, “just go fish, and you will figure it out.”……..hell, they have it figured out and won’t come off any info. I have found 2 guys willing to help, 1 guy is actually drawing me a map of HIS spots where he fishes on a local lake, a lake where he has won tournaments.
I am going to post my “trip reports” here and hope any new angler reads this and it helps in anyway, cause that is the way to grow the sport, by helping new guys and I am one of those!
Sept 24. East Lake, AR
Water temp 68 degrees
Caught 9 bass biggest was 3.37, most ¾ to a pound with top5 going just over 7 pounds. Also caught 2 grinnel, biggest one was 11 pounds and 1 gar! Lol
The water was “clearer” than I am used to fishing as you could see 2-3 foot. bass were caught on a char/white double willow spinnerbait around cypress trees. I also caught bass with pitching a weightless wacky rigged green watermelon/lam 6 inch worm to the cypress trees. The big bass was caught in 5-7 foot of water on the spinnerbait about 50 feet from a small bridge that connects this lake to another backwater area. The spinnerbait pattern is what another angler on the water told me, I felt better cause it was what I was already throwing, but he would “kill it” in front of the trees and let it flutter. He caught about 15 or so all 1.5# size.
Most of numbers were caught yesterday after the wind layed down and it got cloudy between 11 am- 1:30 pm. But did catch 3 bass early between 7-8 am.
