Day trip Tuesday, May 5th 2009

Took the boat out for a short day trip to see what was going on up the lake. I got to the dock around 7:30 and was fishing by 8:30 up around Gainesville Marina. I spent most of the day looking and didn’t see much. I’m not sure if I missed all the surface activity but I did hear of a few people catching fish earlier in the morning. I wasn’t so lucky. Late morning I did get over some fish and was able to boat one small Striper along with a spotted bass. These fish were all hugging a 15-25 ft bottom and didn’t seem to want to turn “on”. I caught my fish jigging swim baits and did have quite a few window shoppers so they were “coming up” but just not taking it. The water temp up in this area was over 70 and sometimes as high as 72. There was a slight wind and the prime for the day was around 11:00 but the BP stayed high and I would say that was the main reason they never really turned on for me. Later in the day I heard of some fish being caught between 3-5 and noted the BP was dropping for a few hours right at the same time.

On the SS below BB, the water was still high at 70 so the lake is definitely warming up. I’m guessing there are fish SS already but that no one is fishing for them so there isn’t much of anything being reported on them. I’ll be heading out 1-2 a week now trying to keep on top of the fish to be prepared for when the real downline trolling action starts. Won’t be long now…