Submitted by MikeB/SpotCountry

Date Fished: 8/29/2008

Water Temperature: 77
Water Clarity: Not reported

Water Temp: 76-78 Water Level: 2.44 ft low

Fishing is Good: Water has risen 1.87 feet since last week due to Hurrican Faye. However, the cool weather continues to drop the water temps down to the 76-78 degree range which is roughly 2-4 degrees cooler. Water clarity is spotty all over. Most of the main lake is still fairly clear from Clarks Creek to Gaults. There are some semi stained areas but I think some of them were due to them being windblown. Most of the backs of the feeder creeks are stained pretty stained due to the rains.

Two of my trips this week got cancelled due to the rain forecasted. I tried to get out Tuesday but the rain had other plans. Wednesday I fished by myself from sunup to sundown in search of a big fish. Due to the overcast skies, cooler water temps and low pressure I started off with the swimbait and after seeing a few decent fish following I ended up with the swimbait other than a few brief spurts playing with the sonar fish when I saw them. Surprisingly the big fish we chasing pretty good but alot of them were just following. Some of the fish I saw would make you think that your on the wrong lake LOL. No lie I saw 1 fish follow me in that was in excess of 7lbs (Largemouth). I saw 2 fish that looked in the 6lb range, and a few in the 4-5lb range (spots and heads) and quite a few 2-3lb fish. It's one thing to see them but it's another to actually get them to bite. To be honest I wasn't prepared to fish the swimbait all day so had I known I would have done things a little different. Lets just say that I got my 50lb swimbait bag out of the garage and it's now in my boat LOL. Again there really is no pattern to follow other than just to arrive early/leave late and cast like heck in between. Some fish I saw came on points, some on red clay, some were on the flats and others were just where they were and for no rhyme and reason. Just put your time in and hold on.

There are alot of crappie, Sandies and Spots schooling fairly deep. By fairly deep I mean 45-50ft range. The crappie and sandies like to hit the smaller 1/4 oz size spoons but they will hit the bigger 1oz occasionally. So if you see fish on the graph and they won't hit your spoon try downsizing a size or two and this will help you decipher what it is that is following your spoon nad not hitting it.

I have a few days left available in September which if this cool weather keeps up it should be awesome for the fall big bait and big fish bite!!

Also, Randall Kirkpatrick of Fish Atlanta and myself are going to do a FREE swimbait Seminar at Natures Tackle Box in Hiram, GA. If you are interested go to this link at AllatoonaBass.com for the flyer and more details.

Swimbait Seminar Information

Here is a little sonar shot for ya.

Allatoona Bass Fishing (Atlanta, Georgia)
Email: mbucca@comcast.net
Website: www.TritonMike.com

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