Stick Marsh & Farm 13
Capt. George Welcome
December 10, 2004
Stick Marsh-Farm 13 - Freshwater Fishing Report
Here it is the second week of December and the bass are
supposed to be heading to the south end of the lake to take care of business.
However, it appears that someone forgot to tell them, or so it seems after
spending a good part of the morning down there Wednesday. Starting on the
south end of the west N/S and working southward and west into the grass and
stumps we were able to pick a couple here and there, but nothing to rave
about. We then headed east to the south end of the center N/S ditch and worked
our way north towards the intersection. Again, as in the west area we managed
to land a few, but no concentrations and not much in the way of size.
The intersection was being worked so we swung to the east
and met up with Don Ling and Bill Loges part way to the pump house. They had
found a group of bass and were working them with plastics and rattle traps. We
compared notes, fished a bit, and then headed north to the north end of the
center N/S ditch. A few casts and we assured ourselves that this was another
school. If
you are fishing shiners the spillway is still your best bet, and if you’re
using artificial baits then the ditches on the farm is were you need to be.
There are fish being caught in the spillway on artificial baits, but if you’re
willing to do some searching on the ditches you can really catch a bunch of
bass. When working the ditches try Carolina rigged Senkos, and crank baits.
The bass have been moving around quite a bit so keep working until you find
them.
The past two days I had David Slobodkin of Oak
Park, IL out for his 4th trip this year with me. Thursday we
started out in the spillway with 8-dozen shiners in the live well. I beached
the boat on the west shoreline and we began throwing free lined shiners up
towards the spillway and to the right of the fence. The bass started biting
almost immediately and did not quit until David ran out of shiners at 10:10am.
David caught a total of 61 bass on the shiners and was ready to try some
Carolina rigged Senkos. We spent until 11:30am working hard for only four more
bass so it was time to make a move. I headed to the East/West ditch and
anchored the boat. The wind was blowing 20+mph which makes it very difficult
to fish the ditches unless you anchor your boat. We began catching bass right
away and other than a few slow periods we caught fish until the time we left.
Over 40 bass up to 7lbs where brought into the boat on a combination of
Carolina rigged Senkos and lipless crank baits.
7-pounds caught with a 3/4 ounce rattle trap.
Today the weather man was calling for 25-30mph
winds, and with the cold front moving in we decided to take 8 dozen shiners
and head to the spill way. Today was a repeat of yesterday except David had a
much better hook up ratio and landed 75 bass by 10:30am. We switched over to
artificial baits and managed another 30 bass up to 6lbs by 2:30pm.
This was another outstanding trip and David’s
best trip to date. On his next trip he will get his 10+ pounder.
Scott
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