In advance of another cold front due in tonight, today’s winds started off calm, then began to push from the SW, then W, then NW. The start of fish activity coincided with the start of the winds and the intensity of the bite increased with the wind’s velocity. I put exactly 127 white bass and 1 largemouth bass in the boat today, all on TNT180’s, most via a smoking tactic, and the rest via a jigging approach.

This 5.75 pound largemouth was ghosting along in a school of white bass, and by the looks of it had consumed at least one unlucky neighbor. This fish took a white and chartreuse 3/4 oz. slab (a TNT 180).

This is what all four of the productive areas I fished looked like before I dropped a slab down.

Fishing was flat (as in — I didn’t boat a single fish — kind of flat) until 9:15. It was at this time that the calm murk and sprinkles cleared out and the first wind of the day began out of the SW.

I boated fish at 4 different areas; each stop was the same … I found ample fish holding off bottom so as to be easily recognizable on sonar. I then dropped a slab and jigged enough to stir up interest, and then used a smoking tactic to catch fish until they lost interest, after which time I would jig again until the school turned off entirely.

Fish were found at:

Area 546: 40 fish

Area 078: 26

Area 089: 4 fish (didn’t stay here long; only small suspended fish were found)

Area 697: 32 fish

Area 698: 26 fish

TALLY = 128 FISH, all caught and released

TODAY’S CONDITIONS:

Start Time: 7:15am

End Time: 1:45p

Air Temp: 62.6F at trip’s start.

Water Surface Temp: ~64.1F

Wind: Winds began at 9:15 and transitioned from SW5 to NNW13.

Skies: Skies were murky grey to the point of light precip until 9:15 when a fairly rapid transition to clear and fair began.