I hadn’t been on the lake since last Friday and things had changed considerably for trolling. In the days that I missed, the weather had cooled along with surface temps. The surface temps dropped 5 degrees and the fish went deep with the rising barometer. They had me stumped for awhile but yesterday the 12th we finally figured out a pattern that worked. We hit em with the downriggers early and caught a couple, and then threw the leadcore at em. The key was to get the heavy stuff down to them.

I had the pleasure of fishing with a couple of fellow veterans and we had a blast. Jamie and Eric Both caught fish with Alex working the deck hand duties. Here’s a little video of our trip on the 12th.

I got out this morning to try a couple of new jigs and try and locate some new fish to work on. I started out up north around the six mile area and worked my way south. I caught 2 smaller fish up north and then worked the Bald Ridge area, then over to the dam. I found a few fish suspended over deep water and was able to pick off a few more before finding more fish at the mouth of Shoal Creek and getting a nice fish or two. Most of the fish came off of the blue shad heads and pearl blue shad body and my new Fire Shad troller in a 1 ounce size. I ran up to 9 colors back. Here’s a couple of videos from today.