A day on the Chick, 12/15/07

[BackOnTheWater]

I got out Saturday morning, hoping to get in a few hours of fishing before the rain hit. My buddy Steve and I were going to fish a dogfight 8-3, but the forecast on FRI night had the rain rolling in mid-morning, so we decided against the Tx. The SAT AM forecast looked better, like the rain might hold off until noon, so I went ahead and put the boat in at 8 AM...it was cloudy with air temps in the low 40's and water temps in the mid 50's. Air temps rose to the mid 50's as the day wore on.

I fished around the bay in which I launched, waiting for Steve. He finally called about 11 and arrived at noon, so I spent 4 hours working the edges of the bay between the shore and 15 FOW. There are quite a few points and coves, all just covered up with rocks and stumps. This was just my 3rd outing learning the shakey-head technique on my new 7' M spinning outfit, so I got in a lot of practice waiting on Steve. I caught 5 LM in the 4 hours, the biggest (2-8) pictured below came on the finesse worm in 10 FOW. 2 others came on the worm, and 2 more on a CB.

Steve arrived, and we went a few miles down-river to a slough where he had caught a 19-lb bag (5 biggest- one 6, two 4's, and couple of 2.5-3's) and several other nice fish the day before. They were not there on SAT, but we did manage 8 slicks working points and banks near drops in 2-15 FOW. I got 2 on the worm and 2 more on the CB. Steve's 4 came on a finesse worm rig similar to the one that I was throwing.

The schooling bass have been hard to catch, for some reason, with all the normal lures, so we've been throwing the shakey-head under the schools and pulling them out.

The rain held off until about 2:30, and we finally left about 3:30. Not a bad day considering the barometer was high and stable until the rain hit...about the time the bass stopped hitting. I ended up with 9 and Steve had 4 on a tough-bite kind of day.

[BackOnTheWater]

I snapped a pic of this little guy (13") just 'cause he was so darn pretty.

[RobbyZ5001]

Nice fish, sounds like you had a good day on the water!

[paul.]

sounds like a good day to me.  especially for this time of year.  sounds like y'all had to improvise a little bit too.  way to make the most out of a less than ideal day!  

[Sam]

Did you get into Lake Chick and do any fishing?

What area of the river did you fish?

Was the water calm or choppy, like it can get when the wind starts to blow?

Glad you had a good time and thanks for the pics.  That 13 incher is beautiful.  Great color.  Can't wait to catch him next year after he puts on two inches!!!!

[BackOnTheWater]

Did you get into Lake Chick and do any fishing?

What area of the river did you fish?

Before my partner arrived, I worked the marina slough (at the Harrison Bay State Park boat ramp). Then he and I went over to a slough between Waconda Bay and the old Loret Marina. I spend most of my time in the Harrison Bay area, between the dam and the Nuke plant/ Skull Isl. area. So much water, so little time!

Was the water calm or choppy, like it can get when the wind starts to blow?

There was almost no wind most of the day. It started kicking up around 1, but we were fairly well sheltered most of the time.

Do you know the Chick, Sam? Ever get down here to fish?

[Guest avid]

Wow, after reading the subject box, I thought this was porn for sure.

[paul.]

^^^ ^^^