Scout'nStripers
Senior Member
Might go out tomorrow but I was out Tuesday morning and never left the creek. We started out with some topwater and swimbaits catching a few on points and over brush on humps. We also had some luck with the whopper plopper and spybait over brush and out on long flat points. I can definitely tell an uptick in the size and the aggressiveness of the fish. I think they can tell that fall is on the way and are starting to get grouped up and school a little more.
It's not quite time to buy the cinnamon broom and the pumpkin spice latte's yet but change is only a week or two away. Water temps have crawled back up to the lower to mid 80's during the heat of the day but the days are getting shorter and soon they will be getting cooler. If you're going out this weekend hit the points early with a topwater popper, whopper plopper, buzzbait or a walking bait for the surface fish and also throw the blueback looking slow sinking swimbait such as a sebile in the same places. As it gets hotter try counting down a spybait to ten with a slow retrieve over structure. A few more baits that have been working are medium and deep diving crankbaits on the rocks and a weightless fluke in the shadows around blowdowns or deep rock ledges. The whopper plopper up shallow early can be productive also. Here's a couple pics with the 2 baits I had the best luck with this week.
It's not quite time to buy the cinnamon broom and the pumpkin spice latte's yet but change is only a week or two away. Water temps have crawled back up to the lower to mid 80's during the heat of the day but the days are getting shorter and soon they will be getting cooler. If you're going out this weekend hit the points early with a topwater popper, whopper plopper, buzzbait or a walking bait for the surface fish and also throw the blueback looking slow sinking swimbait such as a sebile in the same places. As it gets hotter try counting down a spybait to ten with a slow retrieve over structure. A few more baits that have been working are medium and deep diving crankbaits on the rocks and a weightless fluke in the shadows around blowdowns or deep rock ledges. The whopper plopper up shallow early can be productive also. Here's a couple pics with the 2 baits I had the best luck with this week.
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