Rocky1965 Posted June 5, 2012 Posted June 5, 2012 Hey guys, I'm new to the forum and want to find some new spots to hit in the springfield/burke area. I live right next to mercer and huntsman, and love to fish there, but I want to try some new places. Let me know some places you all have hit recently and how ya did. I hit Lake Braddock tonight(between 6:30-7:30) landed acouple of nice ones... http://www.flickr.com/photos/rocco20037/7154561519/in/photostream/ there was another guy there catchin' some too. Quote
Bigbarge50 Posted June 5, 2012 Posted June 5, 2012 How was Braddock...... ? Royal Lake was literally soup with sticks floating everywhere on sunday. Quote
Rocky1965 Posted June 5, 2012 Posted June 5, 2012 How was Braddock...... ? Royal Lake was literally soup with sticks floating everywhere on sunday. Braddock was great till my wife called me home LOL, mostly pound and ahalf' and two pounders...we were both texas riggin(me and the other guy there)Zoom's red/black glitter Utales...wieghted...I hopin to stay late enough to switch over to use my new topwater ...LOL Quote
Hyrule Bass Posted June 5, 2012 Posted June 5, 2012 Fished this morning on base. Caught a 2 lb. bass. Had at least a 12+ catfish but it snapped my 6 lb test 3 feet in front of me. Once I set the hook on the cat. All you heard was the drag going out. That was an awesome fight. But I used a new small black buzzbait but for some reason, I couldn't keep it on the top. It acted more like a spinner bait. Caught the bass on a weightless 6 inch grub. Got a lot of short strikes. Maybe next time use a smaller bait? It was a pumkin colored with red flakes. ive caught a lot of bass fishing a buzz bait below the surface like a spinner bait, never actually caught a bass fishing a buzz bait on top though lol go figure... Quote
Super User Nitrofreak Posted June 6, 2012 Super User Posted June 6, 2012 ive caught a lot of bass fishing a buzz bait below the surface like a spinner bait, never actually caught a bass fishing a buzz bait on top though lol go figure... Don't fish the bait where the blades are completely on top of the water, what you want from a buzzbait is to have the blades just barely cracking the surface. I use a retrieve, pause for one second, retrieve when the bite is slow after/during a cold front, if they are pretty active I will slow roll it back. The dual bladded models are great for slow rolling. Hope that helps, have fun and be safe !!! Quote
jay-b Posted June 6, 2012 Posted June 6, 2012 hit up a back bay creek on muddy creek road yesterday and got a 1-2lb bass on senkos, another one got away after it went ariel, and saw a smaller fish bite my chartouse color swimbait. I gota question, towards the end of the day when it started to get dark, all the fish started jumping (alot of top water action) mostly small splashes so not sure what kind of fish, but a few good ones that look liked bass jumping maybe. I kept trying my wacky rig senko, and chartouse color swimbait (minnow) with no luck or bites. What kind of lure should i be using? top water? and if so whats a good top water. Last night was the most ive seen where fish were breaking the surface, and stil not bites. Quote
Super User Nitrofreak Posted June 6, 2012 Super User Posted June 6, 2012 Could have been small forage, and possibly carp or bass for the bigger ones, but yes I would have thrown some type of top water bait first, or a spinner and let it fall through the bait fish. Quote
Hyrule Bass Posted June 6, 2012 Posted June 6, 2012 Don't fish the bait where the blades are completely on top of the water, what you want from a buzzbait is to have the blades just barely cracking the surface. I use a retrieve, pause for one second, retrieve when the bite is slow after/during a cold front, if they are pretty active I will slow roll it back. The dual bladded models are great for slow rolling. Hope that helps, have fun and be safe !!! thanks i will have to try that... Quote
JSPOONE Posted June 7, 2012 Posted June 7, 2012 went to lake royal monday around 5 pm caught a couple on a black rubber worm. nothing more than a pound or so. going to burke lake this friday. any1 know how the bass are biting as of now? and on what? 1 Quote
quanjig Posted June 7, 2012 Posted June 7, 2012 Two weeks ago caught a couple of solid 3 lb fish on points with a shaky.With the receint rain and high water, I wouldn't rule out weed lines shallow. Lower lake was better than the top. Good luck and let us know how you do. Quote
JSPOONE Posted June 7, 2012 Posted June 7, 2012 Two weeks ago caught a couple of solid 3 lb fish on points with a shaky.With the receint rain and high water, I wouldn't rule out weed lines shallow. Lower lake was better than the top. Good luck and let us know how you do. ok thanks.. will do. im trying to figure out where to go as of fountain head or burke lake. got skunked at fountainhead and im really trying not to get skunked again lol Quote
quanjig Posted June 7, 2012 Posted June 7, 2012 I have fished both Fountainhead and Burke for 20+ years. Both have great fishing if you know where to fish and at the same time can be tough to find fish. Time on the water fishing small areas and learning them will get you more and better results! Quote
Bigbarge50 Posted June 7, 2012 Posted June 7, 2012 I have had much better results on the Occ. Res. then Burke, but that is over 2 years of living here experience. I went to Burke last night..... caught a handful but no size. I was happy to not get skunked. Many a good fishermen I have met in the area get skunked at Burke..... don't feel bad. Quote
MikeW Posted June 8, 2012 Posted June 8, 2012 forgot to update, but i went out of fountainhead sat and it was interesting. temps were good, in the 70s the whole morning/early afternoon. water levels were ridiculously high, probably a good foot or two. i noticed all the grass lines that i can usually see were completely submerged. water was pretty murky and there were huge piles of debris floating around. couldve easily picked up half a dozen sports balls floating. i did manage a good 2lber on a senko in the shallower water. i fished a handful of points/deeper water but couldnt manage to get anything. tried spinners, sinking jerk bait, texas rig, and we even had some live minnows lindy rigged. ill have to keep trying to figure out how to get the deeper bass! Quote
quanjig Posted June 8, 2012 Posted June 8, 2012 Fish should start to get out on the points on the res. I plan on flat out beast mode stomping them Sunday when I go!! Quote
Kyle Mahaffey Posted June 8, 2012 Posted June 8, 2012 Fish should start to get out on the points on the res. I plan on flat out beast mode stomping them Sunday when I go!! Fountainhead? Sorry, tad bit slow today. Quote
Zoff Posted June 9, 2012 Posted June 9, 2012 Spent the entire day on SML. Started out slow but we figured out the bite... in the morning it was brownies on a 5" green pumpkin shakeyhead on the points in about 4 to 10 feet. This afternoon and evening it was still the points but was the bigmouths with spinnerbaits slow rolled from shallow to deep. Most were on structure and groups of 5 or 6. Quote
Rocky1965 Posted June 10, 2012 Posted June 10, 2012 Hey guys, I'm new to the forum and want to find some new spots to hit in the springfield/burke area. I live right next to mercer and huntsman, and love to fish there, but I want to try some new places. Let me know some places you all have hit recently and how ya did. hey man I landed this tonight @ Lake Braddock Using a texas rigged zoom red/black/glitter worm and a 2/0 hook with 10# test! I gotta break down and buy a dang scale LOL My daughter was screamin give the phone Daddy quick i was yellin take the pic LOL http://www.flickr.com/photos/rocco20037/7170701335/in/photostream Quote
Kyle Mahaffey Posted June 10, 2012 Posted June 10, 2012 That think is a beast! I was looking to fish Braddock monday, no I'm in a good mood. Can you tell me where NOT to fish on Braddock. Quote
Super User Sam Posted June 10, 2012 Super User Posted June 10, 2012 Congrats, Rocky. Beautiful fish. The photo is excellent except for the lady with the big behind walking on the path. Taking fishing photos is lots of fun but I have learned to set up the background so not to take away from the things being photographed. Quote
Rocky1965 Posted June 11, 2012 Posted June 11, 2012 @ Kyle LOL thanks man... yeah ill let ya know there's a couple of points to aviod for sure... @ Sam thanks! and yeah It all happened so fast, that my poor daughter had to take the pic quick before the battery died on my phone... Quote
Bigbarge50 Posted June 11, 2012 Posted June 11, 2012 Nice work Rocky.... great fish. You ever see boats on there? Sam that is an good eye..... I only saw fish, You mentioned that, went back and looked, and am sorry you pointed it out hahaha Quote
soccplayer07 Posted June 11, 2012 Posted June 11, 2012 nice fish Rocky. I'm heading out to Fountain Head tomorrow. Report to follow Quote
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