Last night I called up my fishing buddy, Ka’ni, to see if his mom was okay with us doing a cold-weather morning fishing trip today. She was, so, we did!! And did well!

Ka’ni kept right up with me today landing his fair share of our take of 47 fish, all of which came on slabs worked with a variety of techniques.

We both dressed for the weather and, despite a starting temperature of 41F with a windchill, we stayed pretty comfortable and were able to work our lures effectively.

This morning we fished 5 areas and found fish at 4 of them.

We started the morning in shallower water (15-17 feet) at Area 720 (BA:10T) and picked up only 2 fish here. We saw much more on sonar, but had to cover a lot of territory to do it. I think the fish are just beginning to move into this area as the large schools normally here by now are not yet here. It could be due to lack of current.

Next, we headed to Area 992 and found fish just off the lip of the break on the S. facing slope but still holding to the bottom (not suspended as they usually are). We found these fish in 22-25 feet of water, hovered over them for over an hour steadily pulling nice, healthy 11 and 12 inch white bass in using 3/4 oz. TNT 180 slabs. We landed a total of 28 fish here including 27 white bass and 1 largemouth bass.

We next headed to the Area 987/8/9 triangle and zero’ed, finding nothing on sonar.

We next headed to Area 990/916 and found a school of bottom-hugging whites out away from the hump on the flat “apron” that surrounds it in 36 feet of water. We jigged for these fish and boated a total of 8 white bass and 1 largemouth here before the school moved on.

We ended up our day at Area 873, on the N. end of the hump where it breaks from 35 feet into 40+ foot water. As we idled in on this area looking with sonar we found suspended fish in the lower 1/3 of the water column acting much as the fish I found at Area 990/991 on Thursday did. I set Ka’ni up with a rod rigged for smoking and I stuck with a slab for jigging bottom, and we both did equally well, boating 9 fish in about 20 minutes.

As we approached the noon hour, the temperature, under heavily clouded skies, had only risen to 49F. We had a chilly ride in to try to meet mom’s curfew, and, along the way passed some action at Area 74 (BA:5T).

TALLY = 47 FISH, all caught and released.

Start Time: 7:30a

End Time: 12:00noon

Air Temp: 41F at trip’s start.

Water Surface Temp: ~54.7F

Wind: Winds were NE11 tapering down to NE6 .

Skies: Skies were greyed over the entire morning.