The day didn’t start out very good, as there was a very heavy and thick fog which lasted till almost 9. I stayed in the marina lagoon and fished there but all I caught was a dink bass and a few small white bass. As soon as the fog started lifting, I headed upriver a few miles with the intention of slowly drifting back down with the current. That plan didn’t work out so well as the current was moving right along today, and once again, there were lots of logs floating in the water from the rains we got yesterday - but the water was very clear. The current was so strong that I started thinking about a plan B; running back down river and finding a back bay or creek I could duck into to get out of the current because I wasn’t getting any bites along the laydowns and rocks bluffs I was fishing. It looked like the current wasn’t as strong on the other side of the river so I went across and started throwing a senko against the shore.
As I passed a downed tree, I threw my senko and something immediately grabbed it and took off, fighting like mad. I thought I had about a 3-pound largemouth on and I was very surprised to see that it was a decent white bass instead. I’ve never caught a white bass on a plastic worm before, I thought they usually hit minnows, crankbaits and spinners. So I put on a blue/silver Little Cleo spoon and it was game on after that. On a stretch of shore of maybe 250 yards, I caught some of the biggest and fattest white bass I’ve ever seen. I caught close to 40 before they suddenly stopped biting. After that I caught a bonus skipjack herring. Around 3, boats started showing up as people got off work so I headed back to the marina and called it a day. Today was definitely one of the better days I’ve had fishing here. Those white bass are some hard fighters, and I was lucky enough to be at the right place at the right time, with the right lure
