Went old school and got on them today

[DaubsNU1]

The home lake has lots and LOTS of standing timber, nice creek channel, rip-rap, and good brush piles.

 

I have not done well this season. Yesterday I finally caught a bass while fishing one of the off-shore brush piles in 12' of water. Nice 16" 2+lb LMB. 

 

Today I planned to fish the brush piles again...but the standing timber was calling my name. I decided to go old-school and throw on a blue-fleck 7" power worm, t-rigged. This was my "GO-TO" set up back in the 90's when living in northeast Missouri. I've been tossing the 10" power worm, but it has not produced. 

 

Fish in this lake just love green-pumpkin...anything. So I changed it up. And boy did the blue-fleck produce!

 

Twelve bass total in about three hours...seven were 16" or larger, with the biggest 19-1/2," 3-lbs, 5-oz. 

 

Four of the first five fish...

 

 

All were caught in just two spots...I set up spot-lock and kept tossing the worm in there. It seemed like every other cast a fish was nibbling on my worm. 

 

I broke off close to 10 times...most were fish on, then wrapping around trees and such. Had two "drive-by-shootings" (that's what we call it when a Northern grabs your lure, you feel the weight...then the PLINK of the fluoro snapping). 

 

It was really a great day of fishing! I have less than 10 blue-fleck worms left...order time!

 

[Swamp Girl]

Good job, Buddy! I'm surprised your 19.5-incher didn't weigh more. 

[Pat Brown]

I love a good worm bite.  Sounds like the best kinda day!!!  🎣🎣🎣🎣

[The Baron]

13 hours ago, DaubsNU1 said:

All were caught in just two spots...I set up spot-lock and kept tossing the worm in there. It seemed like every other cast a fish was nibbling on my worm. 

Sounds like a great day!  We had a similar experience yesterday, Spot-locked on a cast that produced about 10 fish in a matter of maybe 20-30 minutes. 😎

 

The wind was a struggle for us yesterday.  We’d fished probably 2+ hours with not a bite, then were locked over a saddle between two humps that rise to 8-10ft. from 22ft. of water.  I’ve been meaning to try a Carolina

Rig so decided if we’re catching nothing perhaps now’s the time to try.  It was a great way to stay on bottom in the wind and I also learned how much it tells about the bottom as I could feel gravel, small rocks and weeds.  Then I caught a fish and that little 1.5# was like a 5lb-er for my satisfaction level and my son as well that we finally shot the skunk.🙂  My son then caught a 3.5# and a smaller one, I caught one more so we were pretty happy to have found some.  We moved on and I was telling Wes a spot that prior was the only time I’d even been able to catch multiple fish back to back.  Well, we “lucked” into it again and I caught a few quickly on a drop shot worm with the same cast, into about 12ft. of water.  Then we switched rods because Wes’ reel was all messed up, so he caught a couple 1.5-2lbers on that spot while I fixed his rod.  He was happy to stay with the dropshot so I thought if they’re on bottom, that’s where I need to fish.  He was using a paddletail on an owner flashy swimmer, so I made a similar cast and let it sink to bottom before retrieving.  Wouldn’t you know it, I got three bites almost back to back.  Usually good hooksets on the swimmer, but the first was about 2lb. and lost him at the boat, the second was a really good one.  He was pulling hard and when I saw the line coming up I plunged the rod but he wallowed, and was gone. 😢  We floated over “the spot” and the graph shows maybe a rock pile with weeds around it - I’m not really sure what it is, but you can rest assured it’s on my list for that lake!  An interesting note, the water in this lake is like green tea which is very unusual for here - black/blue/purple and white are the colours to use, it seems. 

[DaubsNU1]

Excellent work @The Baron!   You HAMMERED them!!

[Swamp Girl]

@The Baron: Way to go, Baron and son! Those are beauties.

[scaleface]

On 6/30/2024 at 6:16 PM, DaubsNU1 said:

northeast Missouri.

Im a NEMO resident. What part were you in ?

[Pat Brown]

@The Baron - Out of likes at the moment, but that looks like one for the memory banks and a beautiful day to boot!  Congrats! 

 

 

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[The Baron]

2 hours ago, Pat Brown said:

@The Baron - Out of likes at the moment, but that looks like one for the memory banks and a beautiful day to boot!  Congrats! 

 

 

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Hahaha - I had the same thing when I was away too long.  Not enough “likes” to catch up in one day. 🙂

[bowhunter63]

Heck of day Congrats Sometimes old school is the best school