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Subject: Lake Lanier, Georgia
Submitted by EZ Spin
Date Fished: 10/15/2007
Water Temperature: 73
Water Clarity: 2-3 feet Spotted bass fishing is great right now if you can find the active schools. Launching your boat is a lesson in patience. 3 times in the last month I have waited from 15 minutes to half an hour for a single boat or jet ski to launch or pull out. After the jet ski guy took 20 minutes the other day I put my boat in (took about 1-2 mimutes at most by my self)and his wife/girlfriend said "Wow, you have that down to a science!". Aparenlty, so do most tournament bass anglers because we can launch 30 boats or more in under a half an hour. Well, enough of my rant. I must have prayed for tolerance and am now getting a chance to practice it.
Any way back to fishing. The spots seem to be grouped up in some pretty out of the way places and I have found the best method to find them is to review past years logs (especially when the water was down 18 feet) and to also just get on the trolling motor and run off the banks and humps instead of running the big motor and cast a search bait while watching your electronics. It seems to me that the worst looking banks are holding the best schools.
My baits of choice have been in order 1)Drop Shot Rigs 2)SPRO Dawgs or Sammys 3)1/2 ounce white and Silver Rooster Tails 4) Aruka Shad or Rattle Traps.
The drop shot has been just awsome this past week with top waters a close second. I rig my dropshot with a 1/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook with a Zoom Finesse Worm in chartruese pumpkin. I throw these with 6 or 8 pound Berkley Vanish with a 1/4 ounce Tru Tungsten Drop Shot weight on a medium action spinning outfit. The flourocarbon and tungsten wieght really let me feel what is on the bottom. I can tell if it's clay, sand, rocks or brush. Most of my fish are comming from less tha 20 feet this week around rock and clay that has brush or timber close by. I have basically been beating the banks and doing very well which is not the norm for me.
The SPRO Dawg or Sammy has been pulling suspended fish out of deeper water. For this action I have been getting way off the banks. A lot of these spots are suspended in 25 to 50 feet around standing timber. The will come up and crush these top water plugs.
We have been averaging 15 to 20 keepers in a half day with very few small fish. That's whats been working for me. Let's hear some other reports. Good luck and God bless!
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