On Off Days

The days I'm not guiding I'm always searching for new patterns.  Tuesday I took my wife after a 3 day cold front.

I  knew the bass were running with the white bass in 18 ft. of water.  It was sunny, mild with no wind and we found the fish where the deepest water touched the ridge.  The fish were sitting in 24 to 27 foot of water.

We used a combination:  carolina rig with zoom green pumkin vibra craw with chartruese pinchers;  a Cotton Cordell 3/4 oz. silver spoon;  1/2 oz spot remover green pumpkin mop jig with a Yamamoto 4" green pumpkin crawdad with chartruese pinchers;  and also same trailer with orange pinchers.

We dropped these baits from 16 ft to 27 ft off  ledges to the middle of the creek channel.  Several 4,  5 & 6's came on the drop itself and the 10.2 came off the bottom in the middle of the creek channel.

The importance of the way we fished was because we had 3 days of severe winds, overcast days and very cold conditions.  The fish had been on flats, tops of ridges, etc. in depths of 5 to 9 foot.  This day was bright, sunny and no wind  so I was looking for concentrations of fish rather than single fish in deeper water off the treelines.  We had a great day!