Fished Randleman on Friday, most of the day.
Conditions:
Phony threat of rain in the morning, then sunny
Water temps 77-80
Water clarity, maybe a little less clear than last week
Winds - calm with short periods out of the NE or E
The pattern was schools of dinks in 6 ft of water, outside of wood, and near deeper water. Like they were cruising woody areas but not staying tight to wood. Or maybe we were just meeting them at the times they were coming out from the creek channels to feed. Everything on T-rig plastics. All on the lizard at first, but then kept missing hooksets - bluegills or bass just biting the tail? Switched to a craw for the smaller profile and the catching resumed. Jig was unproductive, maybe 4-5 hits all day and none of them connected.
No size (1-2 lb) but the continuous action was fun. I bet C-rigging would have been effective as well since a lot of the action was near the outside edge of the wood. But why switch to C-rig when the T-rig is working? Lol My friend had an off-pattern beast on (in the sticks very shallow) on a fluke. It was a big one, but it wrapped his line in the sticks and broke off. No pictures to show as it was all dinks. It was a really fun day all and all.
Jay
Conditions:
Phony threat of rain in the morning, then sunny
Water temps 77-80
Water clarity, maybe a little less clear than last week
Winds - calm with short periods out of the NE or E
The pattern was schools of dinks in 6 ft of water, outside of wood, and near deeper water. Like they were cruising woody areas but not staying tight to wood. Or maybe we were just meeting them at the times they were coming out from the creek channels to feed. Everything on T-rig plastics. All on the lizard at first, but then kept missing hooksets - bluegills or bass just biting the tail? Switched to a craw for the smaller profile and the catching resumed. Jig was unproductive, maybe 4-5 hits all day and none of them connected.
No size (1-2 lb) but the continuous action was fun. I bet C-rigging would have been effective as well since a lot of the action was near the outside edge of the wood. But why switch to C-rig when the T-rig is working? Lol My friend had an off-pattern beast on (in the sticks very shallow) on a fluke. It was a big one, but it wrapped his line in the sticks and broke off. No pictures to show as it was all dinks. It was a really fun day all and all.
Jay