Jwc
Well-Known Member
Spent the last 4 days fishing only halls bay. Stripers and bass brought the shad up Wednesday morning for about a 5 to 10 minute boil. Spent the rest of the day casting topwaters and flutter spoons in the same general area as the boils and caught fish steadily throughout the day. I believe they would have brought them up again Thursday and today if it weren’t for so much boat traffic. Again blind casting big topwaters in the backs of canyons and on shallow points produced sporadic savage strikes from all bass species. Another tactic that produced a decent number of fish was casting flutter spoons (5 inch Nichols lake fork flutter spoon) up onto points and casting them into marked bait balls , and either ripping them back to you or reeling them slowly back with slight pops. Flutter spoons work better casted then vertical jigged so I just back of marked fish and cast at them. Or use the wind and drift across points while ripping them. Try it where you mark fish if jigging spoons aren’t doing the trick, the flutter spoons can trigger nuetral inactive fish! Hope this helps ! Also awesome to meet Up The Creek (Bob and fam ), at halls crossing! One last word that I remember from my tournament fishing days and I falled back upon this trip “don’t leave fish to find fish” if there is fish and bait around, maybe they just want a different lure or a different look from the same lure !!