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Lower Crooked Lake After the Snow

Started by djkimmel, April 21, 2016, 03:46:00 PM

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My April 5th trip to the lake was a lot different than my previous trip. It decided to snow and get real cold again. And the bass apparently reacted more than I did by just putting on a few extra layers.

I decided to try different parts of the lake because I expected the shallow bite to be off a bit (it was). I started in a deeper pocket but was surprised to see thicker weeds than I expected. To make a long day shorter, I saw one bass swimming lazily along that seemed partially spooked to see me. I did see a crane on a nest which was nice, and a Caspian Tern flying over the lake, which was a surprise.



I moved to a deeper point and fished it from the top to the bottom tapering out into deeper weeds. Out in barely visible bottom in scattered weeds I saw a nice bass slowly swimming away from me along the bottom. That was my only sign of fish life.

I fished another point with a suspending jerkbait from way out past where I could see bottom in towards shore. A couple hundred feet off shore I caught this 1 little dink on the jerkbait around some stringy weeds. That the only bite I could buy. The cold breeze was blowing me along so being in a rowboat I'm not sure if I stayed on the same exact spot or not. I didn't have any marker buoys with me.



After this I made a cast with a KVD 2.5 towards a laydown tree along the shore on the point and had a moderately interested bass follow it out from the tree but not hit. I thought that meant things would pick up! Yeah!

Boy! Was I wrong about that...

I worked my way around more laydowns, some offshore wood and out into deeper weeds without any action at all, even after a mystery fish jumped out of the water - unexpected on a day like this one.

So I broke down and headed towards the shallow pocket that produced big bites a few days ago. I might as well have been casting in the wet spot in my back yard for all the good it did me. I tried that pocket and finally in the corner saw a couple nice bass around 2 pounds or so just swimming around lazily absolutely ignoring everything I was trying including dead-sticking a stickworm - something that strains my patience.

I went into a bay nearby and saw no bass at all out in the middle or along the shoreline. I finally broke down and got out my Whip'R rod and Carlisle slip bobber to catch something! That worked a little. I was casting in the middle of the bay around scattered weeds to catch a few gills like this one. The slightly bigger bluegills were out in the middle along with a few crappie, which I didn't attract to my Gulp! bait I carry around for these scenarios.



I kept searching shallow pockets and around points throughout the rest of the day hoping for some movement but it was just too cold a drop to move any bass without a lot of bright sun. It was good to be on the water but 1 dink bass and a few bluegills was all I could manage. I was the only person on the lake. No surprise there.

Help stop invasive spcies. Don't move fish between unconnected bodies of water. Clean, drain and dry your boat before launching on another water body.
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