What a great week ... Of nice weather, wish I could say the same for the fishing. Everyday was an adventure. Monday morning I fished solo, pounded the banks and trolled the trees landed 3 slabs all day, Craig and Chris showed up at 4ish and we tried trolling for a while. Gorgeous day and good company still = the 3 fish caught earlier. Tuesday we trolled shallow & deep with little to show for it, 1 nice slab & 1 bass. Wednesday shifted tactics and started working just deep water (1st bouy line/trees) with drop shot rigs or jig set ups, landed 14 missed about 5. Thurs fished from 7-10, picked up 4 more. It was a great week for being on the water, no real complaints but it was allot slower than past years. Numerous boats out there as usual, store ran out of minnows on monday, glad we brought our own. A lime green panfish assassin was deadly as well as a Chartuse pepper flake straight tail jig with green roadrunners, tipped or untipped with minnows worked well.
Wow, I am really surprised at this! I would have thought that Alamo would be cooking by now. Well, I have reservations for 4 nights starting on Monday so might as well go and enjoy. Thanks for the post.
Maybe my allergies will be better there than they are here in the valley. Something good is bound to come out of 4 days on the lake!
We talked to numerous people and all told the same story... decent one day, zip the next... Same area, same techniques... Also, females are loaded with eggs, but not at all bloody... Don't know, just a strange year... Most oldtimers are saying worst in 10 yrs...
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You, Brian and WIllie must have caught them all last year :)
that's the reason it was slow monday you were there :violent-smiley-007: >:( >:( and screwed it up :bootyshake:
Brian that lake is acting weird to say the least two weeks ago fish were staged to get after it and Monday it was like they left town, we had the cool snap with wind two days but the water temp was only down a couple degrees I have no idea where the fish went that we were tearing up the week before, if the females are still full of eggs they obviously have moved back their spawn date :dontknow: when ever the hell that will be :banghead:
had to go to Roosevelt yesterday to redeem myself
glad you had a good time and the weather has been fantastic