jason daniel outdoors

Update from this past weekend. Fished Bass Champs and due to the fog only got about 5 hours on the water to fish. Start out in our first spot in Lowes creek with the boat positioned in about 20 feet of water. Caught a few small keepers on carolina rigs. Not getting quality bites so decide to move to the next spot in the indian mounds. Start off in 20 feet and not getting bit. Decide to move shallow (5-7 ft) and start catching keepers that were just about to bust. Move to the 3rd spot in Housen and go even more shallow (3-5 ft) and again start catching females completely swollen up. Knew it was going to take at least 16 and change to weigh in (we had 15.25 on my scales and notes in the boat) so we released our fish to swim another day instead of weigh them in. Not fishing for points or angler of the year. We fish Bass Champs for money and if we don't have enough, let those fish go and not stress them. Best Lures Rattletraps (Brown Eye) Spinnerbait (Coleslaw) Carolina Rig (Anything) Senko

Little fish, I have experimented with that rig from time to time over the years. I can honestly tell you that the bites for the most part have been around 65 / 35 on the plastics versus the jig. However, I can say the jig fish have always been larger than the plastic fish. As far as the rigging, exactly, I tie a palomar knot and then tie on whatever plastic I decide at the time. Most of the time I like to use a flipping tube or fluke.

Great forum gentlemen. I grew up fishing Toledo in the Tenaha / Huxley / Shelby Beach area of the lake. After moving to Europe for almost 6 years, wow has the lake changed. First trip back on the bend was last Sunday and all in all fairly pleased with the outcome. I figured with how cold its been the fish would have been in 25-30 feet of water. I spent most of the morning til around noon fishing that depth without a bite. Around noon decided i had enough and thought, well, lets go more shallow. Positioned the boat in 17 feet of water casting to 6-10 and caught fish for the next hour on almost every cast using a modified carolina rig (1/2 oz jig with a 2 foot tag and trick worm ) dragged across the bottom. My only question, the 3 areas of the lake I fished (Indian Mounds, Lanana and San Miguel) i never found any grass. Where did all the grass go? Like I said, I've been off the lake for years but those areas always had good grass.