Pacemaker Fishing Forum

I got out on the water at 9:00am.  It was chilly and sunny (40 degrees or so).  Water level was 4.2 at POR and the water is mostly clear.  After a quick stop to check a nearby eddy, I ran up river.  I fished a partially flooded island and got my first smallie on a small chartreuse and black crank.  It was 14.25".


I threw the crank again and worked it upstream and quickly got a bite.  It was a 17"er.


I tried for a while, but got no more bites there.  The water was a little more stained in that area.  I decided to float inside an island to see if the fish were biting there.  It also protected me from the wind.  It was getting cloudy and felt chilly.  I finally caught a 14.25"er on a finesse jig near a creek inflow.  It was pretty messed up with a lesion on it's gill plate.

A while later I caught a 15"er on a chatterbait near an eddy.

That was it for the inside of the island.  I headed back to the main river and worked structure on the MD shore.  I figured something out with quite a bit of wood structure on the shoreline.  I ended up catching 2 and losing one that would have been a bigger fish on a ned head with a 3" Ika.  The next spot I hooked one on a tube.  After that I caught 3 more fish on a ned head with a hula stick.  It was getting late and chilly, so I left with 9 smallies landed.  Most of the later fish were 12-13" so no pictures.  I was off the water by 5pm.  Better numbers day.

Last edited by drxfish (Apr-02-19 3:34PM)