Skunked - need advice

[Chaz Hickcox]

So today a friend and I were skunked.  Had a few hits but nothing that actually took what we were throwing.  The air temp was 60 with a windchill of about 55.  The water temp was somewhere in the low 70's, we just got our cold front so the water temp hasn't changed much yet.  We spent the day all over the water column, slow rolling spinners on or near the bottom, lipless cranks, buzzbaits, swimbaits, jointed rapalas, pitching jigs, rage tail shads, and anything else I could dig up from my tackle box.  We got on a bunch of shad, but didn't even get hit there.  the wind was about 10-15mph.  We were on North Landing River.  It is more like a long thin lake with a lot of creeks running into it than a major river.  There is a main channel that has been dredged out to 15-20ft (depending on where you are), and the creeks average about 5-9 ft.  There are a lot of sunken barges in some of the horseshoes, and there are a lot of submerged trees.  However, my normal spots were no good because the water is down almost 2 ft from when I was out there two weeks ago.  Any thoughts about where to find the fish would be great.  My guess is that they are suspended along the main channel, but unfortunately my graph is not working so I have to guess using my flasher where the ledges are.

[Big-O]

With the water cooling down, probably need to ck out the shallows similar to Spring patterns and using smalll cranks and/or small jigs would be my best guess for you. Stay close to cover or structure....

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[jesse D.]

if there not were big 0 stated definetly try the main channel, and i would try a drop shot