Texas_Rig's Fishing Journal
Well this will be my official journal. I went to Center Hill today and just like the last couple trips there it was easy to get bit but hard to catch keepers. I caught a total of 16 bass today and not a single keeper. I measured all the ones that were close. All of the small fish I'm just estimating on length. I had a couple patterns going at the start but ultimately decided to just run the bank with a Topwater the second half of the day because I felt like that was the way to catch a couple good fish. I was wrong! I started off throwing a Strike King Sexy Dog Jr and towards the end of the day I had 4 or 5 fish in a row blow up on the bait and not eat it so I switched over to a popper and the fish started committing to the bait again. My cadence was very fast with both of the Topwater baits I was throwing. I was even walking the little popper like a walking bait.
Fishing Time: 11am-5pm Weather forecast at takeoff: 55 and cloudy. NE wind at 5-10mph Barometric Pressure: 30.24in. Water Temp: 65-66 Fish 1: 11:57am Smallmouth(14") 1oz SK bottom dweller spinnerbait Slowrolled on a mainlake bluff Fish 2: 12:03pm Smallmouth(14") same spinnerbait Slowrolled on a mainlake bluff Fish 3: 12:39pm Largemouth(12") SK Sexy Dog Jr Back of main lake pocket Fish 4: 12:41pm Largemouth (14") Sexy Dog Jr Same main lake pocket Fish 5: 1:01pm Smallmouth(16.5") 1/2oz Texas Rig SK rage tail menace Main lake point where pea gravel transitions to bluff wall Fish 6: 1:17pm Smallmouth(12") 1oz spinnerbait Slowrolled on bluff walk Fish 7: 1:20pm Smallmouth(14") 1 oz spinnerbait Slowrolled on bluff wall Fish 8: 1:45pm Smallmouth(12") Sexy Dog Jr First 3rd of Main lake pocket Fish 9: 2:09pm Largemouth(10") Sexy Dog Jr Back of same main lake pocket as fish 8 Fish 10: 2:24pm Largemouth(14.5") Sexy Dog Jr Back of same pocket as fish 9 Fish 11: 3:47pm Smallmouth(16.5") Evergreen OB Popper Hurricane Creek Pocket Fish 12: 3:49pm Smallmouth(14") Evergreen OB Popper Same pocket as fish 11 Fish 13: 4:03pm Smallmouth(17.75") Evergreen OB Popper Same pocket as fish 11 Fish 14: 4:08pm Spotted Bass(11.75") Evergreen OB Popper Same pocket as fish 11 Fish 15: 4:17pm Spotted Bass(6") Evergreen OB Popper Same pocket as fish 11 Fish 16: 4:34pm Largemouth(14.5") 1/2oz Dirty Jigs Finesse Football jig Hurricane Creek point leading into pocket |
Looks good to me.
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Great detail, love it
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Nice information.
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Great. And thanks. Nice to see you catching with what I like to throw.
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Thanks for doing this journal. That is a very good detail job.
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Great report. Thanks. I still haven’t fished Center Hill for some reason, Only the Caney.
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no dudley buzzbait with frog trailer and spinner blades scewed in? lol..
good report! curious what depth you were rolling the spinnerbait and what was the water temperature. thanks |
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Thank you Tex for deciding to do this...with detail like this you should consider starting a youtube page like Alpha. What y'all have chosen to do is an immeasurable benefit to the community. Was bait present on the points or transitions that caused you to pick those areas?
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And it sounds like you have CH down |
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If I didn't know you made this statement I would bet the house it was Kevin VanDam. |
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I actually love deep water fishing grew up fishing deeper water for walleye and yellow perch. Actually a little backwards I had to learn to bass fish shallow when I moved south 20 years ago. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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On Monday a friend and I went Center Hill. I just couldn't figure it out and didn't catch much. I caught a total of 5 fish with just one keeper smallmouth. I think my friend caught just 2. I was excited about the day because I thought the conditions were perfect to catch fish shallow and on the bank. I could not make that work. 4 of the 5 fish I caught were in 25-30 feet of water. I found a huge school of bass but they just wouldn't eat. We caught a few out of there but the spot was loaded. The school was on the deep side of a main lake point where one side of the point was a gradual slope and the other dropped steeply off into the river channel. I fished the bank a lot with mostly a Topwater with only 2 blowups and caught one small bass flipping a piece of cover. I was very surprised with the cold nights that the water was still in the 60's.
11/19/2018 Center Hill Lake 11:45am-5pm Weather: 55 degree high temp. Cloudy with a southerly wind at 10-15mph Water temp: 60-62 Fish 1: 12:12pm Largemouth(14.5") 1/2ounce Texas Rigged SK menace grub Mainlake point in about 25 fow Fish 2: 12:19pm Smallmouth (13") same bait same spot Fish 3: 12:31pm Smallmouth(18.5") same bait as Fish 1 Caught on end of bluff near where Fish1&2 were caught Fish 4: 2:44pm Largemouth(12") 1/2oz texas rigged SK menace grub Flipping a beaver hut/dam in the back of a creek pocket Fish 5: 4:50pm Smallmouth(14") 1/2 oz dirty jigs finesse football jig Caught on the end of a boat ramp in a creek. 30 fow |
I fished the Steam Plant yesterday morning with no success. It was a cold overcast morning with snow flurries. The main lake water temp was 51 and tge water temp at the barrier was 61. It seemed like a perfect morning. I arrived right at daylight. There was lots of bait at the mouth of the canal leading in but not much back in the canal. I did have a fish hammer a crankbait but no hookup. I didn't stay too long because of the lack of bait and a couple people were fishing at the entrance by the time I made it back out. I didn't see any surface activity beyond the barrier. It's just barely to early I think.
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