New Venue
Thursday, June 29th, 2017 | Author: admin
This morning for a change of pace I went to Lake Enterprise, arriving for fishing to start at 6:30. Not wanting to make the same mistake as last time, I motored directly to the 72 tree. As you would expect, there was nobody home. Thinking the school had moved, I fished in the area for about 45 minutes even running the side scan to try and find the school. Nothing worked. Then I went to a place where the duckweed was entirely across the lake. I was alternating with a Ribbit in the duckweed and a DT-6 in the open water. The DT-6 would work in the duckweed where it was not too thick but I caught no fish. Giving up on the open water duckweed, I started down the treeline fishing a Ribbit in the duckweed. Before too long I got a halfhearted bite and IÂ thought the fish missed the bait. I finally tightened up on the line and saw the line was coming to the boat so I set the hook scared the fish would be hooked deep. It was hooked in the side of the jaw, just in the right spot. That was so good I continued down the treeline looking for more, but no more showed up. By now desperation had set in so out came a Rattletrap which had some of the sharpest hooks I have seen on one of those baits and I trolled with it. Pretty soon a real tight eye showed up, caught right out in the middle of the lake. The side scan showed no school but I went back through three times. Continuing on for a good distance another small bass showed up and again it was alone. Now I spied the end of the lake that was covered with duckweed and the wind was blowing directly into it. Â The Ribbit came out and quickly started getting bites but from small bass. I caught a few but tried to find something that would work better. A few liked a shaky head with a small worm pulled across the top to the duckweed. Jackson and John Bishop came up in Jackson’s boat and caught a few but left because the bite seemed to be winding down. After they left, I pulled out in the open water just outside the duckweed and used a DT-6 and it started working. The fish outside the duckweed seemed to be larger than the ones under it but they were moving just like schooling bass do. The FOD of 3-2 came from there. There were a lot of tighteyes but some others in the 1 1/2 to 2 pound range. No real biggies but caught 27.