Fishing has been just as slow as getting the lake report out at times so far into 2011. January has been on and off or up and down so far with the New Year. By that I mean one day the bite is real good and next day it is real slow. Then the fish will be up shallow one day then down deep the next. Water temp was 58-59 before front last week and was 55.9 yesterday where I fished

When I say shallow, I am talking 10ft or less and deep 10ft out to 40 plus. I have caught fish from 10ft up on
jerk baits (pausing for long count  of 20-30 seconds), senkos with very little movement and light weight. Make sure you are over grass ( if you don’t see the grass and or trees on your graph you are wasting time) and that whatever bait  you are using is bumping the grass.  Cast the senko and let sit for long period before crawling it along the bite has been very light most of the time so make sure you  use flourocarbon line since it is a lot more sensitive than regular mono.

Deep diving crank baits in shad colors have been my best bite over humps and points with grass and/or trees
from 11ft out to 17ft. Crank it down pretty fast till you start to bump the structure then slow it down and reel just fast enough to stay in contact with the structure. Deep ledges from 15ft out to 40 plus are good spots to pitch the heavy jig and the POWER TACKLE LATERAL PERCH. There has been some big ‘uns on the perch with others following the hooked fish up.

For the days I have found the bite to be 10ft or less, I have been using smaller crank baits that dive to about 9ft. (white or crawfish color) 10-11 inch pumpkin or plum worms with 3/16-1/4oz weight fished slow in the brush at this depth. The smaller jerk bait in table rock shad has been working here with a long pause and making sure you don’t get it down to deep to stay hung up.

Some of the teams in the Bass Champs Tournament this past Saturday found some heavy weights ( a 12 and two10lbers ) in shallower  water, since the front came thru just days before the tournament so you might try up a little shallower than 10ft.

Keep after them, we need to get a few share lunkers on the board.  They’re out there.

Good Fishing…
Travis Darley
www.borderbass.com
830-703-0414