Beautiful February Day – 4 Bites, 2 Keepers

Toll bridge to 9mm, fishing creek channel banks, secondary points and backs of coves with warm water. Grub presentation was dragging on the bottom, stick bait about count down to 10 between light twitches.

Today I got on the water about 11:30 and headed to the toll bridge. It was an absolutely beautiful day. The first bank I fished seemed to have a lot of bait fish however, no immediate bites as I soaked the stick bait over brush and near the bait fish. As I moved down the bank toward the back of the creek area, the water just kept warming up to 44 degrees. I caught the first bass, a short on with my boat in 6′ of water on a stick bait. As I moved out of the back area of the creek, I noticed several dying shad, so I dragged the Chompers Twin Tail Grub, rigged on Waynes Keeper Head (white available from Fitz Fishing and other colors from Crock-o-Gator Bait Company), I felt a slight tick on my line and bit of weight, when I set the hook I knew it was a quality fish, it kept making runs under my boat and finally I netted it. I did not put it on the scale, but I would guess it at about 3.5 – 4 pounds. The rest of the day, I caught two more, one keeper about 16″ and a short fish, they came from two secondary points that were very close to each other, I probably should have came back and hit those again, as I also caught two drum on the same banks. Overall I was satisfied with 2 keepers in 5 hours, as the bite has been very tough lately.