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Post by Mike K on Sept 11, 2012 12:11:49 GMT -1
Hey guys- First year on Allatoona, and go figure I got my first exposure this year in the dead of Summer... I was wondering if anyone had some experienced largemouth or spot insight...
We have been trying a lot of different patterns over the hot days (drop shots deep, deep cranks, top water at last light, etc.). We have had some spotty success mostly hitting as many decent looking places as possible, but the only pattern we were ever really able to establish was catching a good amount of fish one Sunday afternoon on shallow crank baits over secondary points just after it had rained.. which was a lot of fun..
The past few trips I have seen some more fish throwing a texas rig into lay downs and other shallow cover (love the down trees on Kellogg Creek..). But I guess as it should be, the weather is playing a huge roll in how the fish are behaving..
I was wondering if anyone had some good advice on some patterns they have noticed over the years, locations, or tips to help me put a few more ripped lips in the boat! Looking forward to the water temp dropping...
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Post by Bob Smith (Porko) on Sept 11, 2012 21:09:20 GMT -1
Right now, the shad are on the move. When the wind isn't blowing you can see huge balls of baitfish all over the top of the water. This is an annual event. When it happens (and it does on every lake that has a good population of shad), the bass will generally be with them, as will the white fish too! This is a trial and error time of year too because of the lake turnover and this last weekend we found evidence of it starting already (back of Illinois had the bottom muck coming to the top already). If you are fortunate enough to get in the middle of a good school the action can be fast and furious, once you find the right bait! Last Saturday I threw topwater, lipless cranks, jigging spoons, but my little buddy Wally came out with the pointer with feathered treble on the back and proceeded to catch the uncatchables! The rest of the time we looked for the baitfish and green fish to be near vertical drops and prominant structure. When we found them we caught them on a variety of soft plastics. Two key ingredients, shad and oxygen (where the muck was coming up the fish were very shallow, they were deep everywhere else).
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