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Subject: Mobile Delta, Alabama
Submitted by Bob Ward (ip 71.229.10.159)
Date Fished: 11/22/2007
Water Temperature: 68
Water Clarity: 2-3 feet With a cold front entering the area tonight, and the wind predicted to get up to 20 mph out of the north today, I decided to launch on the Causeway this morning early. My early, I mean before 8 AM. The wind was out of the west/northwest at 5 mph and the water level fairly low. A few fishermen were out today after the last of the specs and flounder but I didn't see many bass fishermen. I hit the creeks hoping to get a good buzzbait bite before the wind got up. No such luck. It was white-capping in Conway and almost as bad in Crab creek so I headed for the backwaters of Oak Bayou. I caught two bare keepers on the 1/8 ounce buzzbait where I could find slack water. I switched to a 1/4 ounce buzzbait and got no takers. Ditto with the worm. I switched to a 3/16 Bush Hog spinnerbait with chartreuse blades and got many strikes but only one hook-up. I switched to the small Okeechobee spinnerbait with a shrimp colored skirt and trailer and caught 6 or 7 good fish within the next hour, two almost 3 pounds. As usual the key was small patches of grass. With the water lever fairly low I found many small patches of milfoil and sometimes eel grass. The fish wouldn't take the buzzbait worked over the grass today but would take the small spinnerbait coming out of the grass. The water level dropped enough by 1030 AM (about 10 inches) that the grass was exposed and the bite was gone. I was back home by 1115 AM. Best five today a little over 10 pounds. I will try to get back out again Tuesday after this cold front has passed.
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