Post by Mike Bucca on Nov 19, 2008 3:53:34 GMT -1
I've been alternating back and forth between Carters and Allatoona. Carters is now a few feet low and the reregulation pool that was empty last week is almost full LOL. They have been yanking alot of water there and it kinda went from that clear look to fairly stained. I got to Carters and fished for about an hour and a half and knew it would be tough calling swimbait fish up out of 50ft of stained water so I headed back south to Toona and fished Toona yesterday afternoon and today.
Allatoona isn't doing bad. The topwater is pretty much dead. Lots of very small white bass busting shad on top but nothing spot wise atleast on the South end. I was lucky to have the lake pre frontal so the fish were more active than they were late last week with a 15 count yesterday starting at 11am and 23 count today starting at crack of dawn. I fished the swimbait the first few hours but got the majority of my 23 in about 3 hrs . I got a 2.5lber on the 8 inch Hampton Shad and 3 on the lil hampty. They are definitely keying in on smaller shad which is 3 inch tops now. The senko did most of the damage, but I got fish on a variety of baits wacky jig, dropshot, Flashminnow 95MR and 2 suicide spoon fish as I saw schools go under the boat. If I didn't have prefrontal conditions I would stick with fishing the dropshot for most of the fish which I tested today for just a short time and got 5 fish in 45 minutes. All of my areas are main lake related which is setting up for summer. Once the temps get 80 degrees that power bite will go POOF then we will be stuck with finesse for the most part till fall booooo boooooo ;D. I would really like to see the lake get a good flush of water out the dam to liven thing up a bit. Lots of scum and debris in the lake now. The first 10ft of water is nothing but trash on my graph.
Good luck
Mike
Allatoona isn't doing bad. The topwater is pretty much dead. Lots of very small white bass busting shad on top but nothing spot wise atleast on the South end. I was lucky to have the lake pre frontal so the fish were more active than they were late last week with a 15 count yesterday starting at 11am and 23 count today starting at crack of dawn. I fished the swimbait the first few hours but got the majority of my 23 in about 3 hrs . I got a 2.5lber on the 8 inch Hampton Shad and 3 on the lil hampty. They are definitely keying in on smaller shad which is 3 inch tops now. The senko did most of the damage, but I got fish on a variety of baits wacky jig, dropshot, Flashminnow 95MR and 2 suicide spoon fish as I saw schools go under the boat. If I didn't have prefrontal conditions I would stick with fishing the dropshot for most of the fish which I tested today for just a short time and got 5 fish in 45 minutes. All of my areas are main lake related which is setting up for summer. Once the temps get 80 degrees that power bite will go POOF then we will be stuck with finesse for the most part till fall booooo boooooo ;D. I would really like to see the lake get a good flush of water out the dam to liven thing up a bit. Lots of scum and debris in the lake now. The first 10ft of water is nothing but trash on my graph.
Good luck
Mike