Pacemaker Fishing Forum

I was deciding between going today or tomorrow and I went for today because 1) both days were forecasted to be fairly cloudy 2) lower pressure was forecasted for today.  I got on the water a little before 5:30am.  I tried whopper ploppers along the tail end of an island.  No bites.  The sunrise was nice.

I tried another area for topwater, but nada.

I headed upriver.  I made one stop to check for a topwater bite, but got nothing.  I decided to run up further.  I tried a rocky area that looked great, but got nothing there.  I ran all the way up (as far as I can usually go).  I saw the water was low and mostly clear.  Level at POR was a little over 2 feet.  I worked the area good on both sides.  No bites (except a couple sunfish pecks on a tube).   The wind was picking up and the sun was out.  I decided to float on the MD side because it was shady.  It was almost 12:00 noon before I got my first fish.  It hit a white chatterbait behind a log.  I forgot to measure it, but it was around 14 inches.

I was glad to get the skunk out, but disappointed with the action.  I let the wind push me downstream and I ate my lunch.  I threw a couple lures in a mid-river rocky area, but no bites.  After lunch I ran down to my normal section and dragged a keitech on a slider head, then threw a spinner with a grub and a crankbait.  No bites.  I ran over to float an island and toward the end of the island I hooked a decent 16.5" smallie on the keitech swim bait.  It was in a pocket on the shore with wood.  I guess I hit it on the head.


The wind was pretty steady out of the Northwest.  It made the float fast.  I ran down to the next island and tried a couple lures (missed a small one on the little buzzbait), but no takers and I was done.  I was off the water about 1:45pm.  Fish were somewhere, but I did not find them.  Tough day.