Picked up Dan and headed to Barkley at 11:30. We put in at Linton. This is my first time back on the lake since the flooding a couple of weeks ago and subsequent lake closings. It was crazy to look up in the trees and see the mud line about 10 feet over my head. The lakes are still about a foot over summer pool. We are two days into a front and the forecast was for clouds in the morning clearing in the afternoon. Survey says......XXX. Cloudy all day and the high today was 65. The water was 67 degrees and stained with a lot of trash still floating. There was a lot of current all day. Fishing Linton means a lot of bushes, road beds, shallow water and pockets. All of the buck brush has been under water for almost three weeks so there are no leaves, which means no shade for bass to get under.
We fished for 4 hours straight without a fish. We spent our time flippin' and pitchin' bushes and trees. Didn't catch a single fish doing that today. The sun started breaking through a little bit and we came up on the south side of an island where current was breaking around a line of bushes coming out on point. I tied on a David Clark Little River Special Spinner Bait and started throwing it. Dan was throwing a jig and pig. I threw over a small bush, hopped it over and wham....fish on......fish off. After 4 hours with nothing I was fishing like I wasn't going to catch anything and didn't set the hook in time. Dan threw in right behind me and caught my 3 pounder.
We thought he was a monster at first. He hit like a freight train and fought hard. That combined with the current made it seem like he had an 8 pounder on. Fun, to say the least. We fished around to the other side of the bushes and I caught another 3 pounder on the spinner bait. We only found one other spot today that had fish biting. It was the same thing. South side of an island around bushes in current. The shad weren't really working and while we saw fishing hitting around us they just weren't chasing. We each had four fish today. I was glad because I thought we were looking at the big ol' skunk for the day. We were off the water at 6:30 and the boat was in the garage at 7:15.
Nothing picture worthy today.
Can't wait to hit it again.
