Piney Z 7/19/13
Posted: July 21st, 2013, 12:38 am
We arrived at 1pm, to a hot, sunny day. Surface temps were in the low 80s and there was a small breeze from the north east for much of the day. You could feel the dog days of summer upon us, as we fished near the edge of the underwater finger on the south west side of the lake. We caught several decent ones in this area and kept 4 8" BG from this location. With the sun blazing we headed to wide open water, and conducted several drifts over the deeper water without a bite. As the sun moved towards the west we headed for the shade of the cypress trees. I saw fish on the sonar beneath us, but we didnt catch but a couple small BG amongst the trees. At 5:15 we headed to finger 3 to pick up a friend, and we headed to our better holes. When we got to our first hole, it was loaded with small 6" BG so we moved to our other good spots and caught a couple nice ones before moving back into the cypress trees. At 8, we moved back to our offshore spot and the bigger BG had finally moved in. We boated about 5 8"+ BG from there before we spooked them a little as the sun was setting. Altogether it was a very very slow day, we worked very hard to get 19 quality 8-10" BG and about 40BG and 1 LMB landed total, we covered a lot of water and found them in a variety of places, mostly offshore near the bottom, and they seemed to come in and feed very late due to the hot weather. 4ft and in was an almost lifeless area beyond small feeding bass for most of the day. Another dog day at the Z.
