Scout'nStripers
Senior Member
Last Sunday my wife and I got out for a little morning run. My motor was acting up so we just focused on fishing the shallow stuff in the back of the creek around the house. We started out with squarebills and shakeyhead but wound up catching our fish on the weightless fluke and a little custom whopper plopper I made. We caught some nice fish in less that 10 feet of water in the backs of pockets and around deep rock. I included a picture of a double we caught to end the day.
Yesterday I had to Trailer the boat to do some maintenance so I made a little circle around the creek about noon before trailering. I wanted to throw the whopper plopper on some points and take a good look at the new natural blueback swimbait. Both baits did well and I noticed a lot more larger aggressive fish and schooling fish for being midday. I was only on the water for a couple hours but still found a few. It was blistering hot but the fish were still coming up here and there. They were chasing smaller baits mostly but a couple of the bass I caught yakked up bigger herring about the size of the swimbait I was throwing. Here's my biggest 2 from the run. The bass in the third pic was caught on a little custom blueback whopper plopper ko and the largemouth in the 4th pic ate the natural blueback swimbait. I put a little video of both fish and the baits I was using in the comments section. Basically the water is slowly cooling but the fish including some nice bass are over deeper water and staying down in the thermocline for the time being. The last picture I included was taken a little over a week ago as I crossed the creek channel in Bald Ridge creek. You can clearly see the top of the thermocline by where the bait pods are suspended. This time of year the bait usually positions at the top of the thermocline. As the days get shorter and the water gets cooler that bait you see in the picture will slowly rise to the surface. Usually around mid Oct.
Also, we still have a few openings for the upcoming "Masterminds" bass seminar with your choice of tomorrow evening and Saturday morning. This is a three hour sit down with myself, Jimbo on Lanier and Lanier Jim for a small limited seating round table discussion on how the three of us approach early fall through winter. We each have our own tactics and we'll be sharing these tactics to help with your fall fishing on Lanier. You can message me for more info on the seminar. There will be a lot of good info being covered to prep you for winter on Lanier. Here's a few pics and a little video I made yesterday.
Yesterday I had to Trailer the boat to do some maintenance so I made a little circle around the creek about noon before trailering. I wanted to throw the whopper plopper on some points and take a good look at the new natural blueback swimbait. Both baits did well and I noticed a lot more larger aggressive fish and schooling fish for being midday. I was only on the water for a couple hours but still found a few. It was blistering hot but the fish were still coming up here and there. They were chasing smaller baits mostly but a couple of the bass I caught yakked up bigger herring about the size of the swimbait I was throwing. Here's my biggest 2 from the run. The bass in the third pic was caught on a little custom blueback whopper plopper ko and the largemouth in the 4th pic ate the natural blueback swimbait. I put a little video of both fish and the baits I was using in the comments section. Basically the water is slowly cooling but the fish including some nice bass are over deeper water and staying down in the thermocline for the time being. The last picture I included was taken a little over a week ago as I crossed the creek channel in Bald Ridge creek. You can clearly see the top of the thermocline by where the bait pods are suspended. This time of year the bait usually positions at the top of the thermocline. As the days get shorter and the water gets cooler that bait you see in the picture will slowly rise to the surface. Usually around mid Oct.
Also, we still have a few openings for the upcoming "Masterminds" bass seminar with your choice of tomorrow evening and Saturday morning. This is a three hour sit down with myself, Jimbo on Lanier and Lanier Jim for a small limited seating round table discussion on how the three of us approach early fall through winter. We each have our own tactics and we'll be sharing these tactics to help with your fall fishing on Lanier. You can message me for more info on the seminar. There will be a lot of good info being covered to prep you for winter on Lanier. Here's a few pics and a little video I made yesterday.
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