This week I’ve gotten out every day in some capacity and the bite has been somewhat transitory for me. The way I view the fishing pattern from fall to winter and spring to summer is pretty simple, when we go into winter the fish start looking down for their meals, vice looking up. During the transition from spring to summer, the fish start looking up for their meals, vice looking down. This transition occurs around the time of the turnover, both fall and again in late spring. For me, this week was the transition.

On Monday we had very fair weather, but I could sense that the changes were coming, mainly because of my weather apps on my phone, but changes were in the air. When Lisa and I were returning from our tournament on Saturday afternoon we ran into a fisherman in the back of the creek that said he had caught 15 fish around the area we saw him so that prompted me to check the back areas of the creek even though the water is still pretty clouded back here. I spent most of my morning in the back tossing the worm around and (as my grandson puts it) catching Jakes. I made a quick swing through the creek but I wasn’t very impressed with what I found so I called it a day with nothing but smaller fish to show for it. The best thing about Monday was the shrimp boil we had for dinner.

On Tuesday the front was still coming through and the fish responded well. I got on a little pattern where the fish were coming out of the brush and slamming the Lanier Baits Hard Swimmer in the pearl white color and if they missed, I could follow it up with the shaky head and usually get them to hit that. It was a 1-2 punch that worked around the brush for some pretty fun fish. Here’s my best five from Tuesday. The three biggest came from the Hard Swimmer.

Wednesday was the first day of post front and it was bone chilling cold, and the wind was getting it, kinda like the perfect day for the SpotSticker Mini Me spinnerbait on points. I didn’t last long out in the cold, and I took it back to the house but not before catching a couple nice fish a white bladed Mini Me. Here’s my two biggest from the spinnerbait outing.

Yesterday I was back at it and I brought my video camera to see if I could get a little shaky head footage. It turned out to be a good 4 hour trip, from mid-morning till mid-afternoon. Nothing but shaky head in the wind using Minn Kota Spot Lock upwind of the brush and just making cast tight around and through the brush. My worm of choice this week was the Big Scented TRD from Zman with a Boss Outdoors 1/4-ounce jig head. Boss Outdoors is an “American Made” company, and they have the best keeper I’ve found for Elaztech plastics.

Here’s a video I made yesterday using the TRD and the Boss. If you watch closely on the video, you can see that most of the time the fish hit the bait right in the structure.

Probably the Big TRD was the best bait this week with the Hard Swimmer and the Mini Me doing well for me too.

I’m still without sonar so I don’t really know what the water temps are, but I’d guess it to be in the low 60’s to upper 50’s right now and the lake continues to drop. Right now, it’s over 7 feet below full pool and I’m just about ready to give up on moving the dock out to chase water. Unless we get substantial rain soon our dock will be on dry ground.

On another note, be sure and check out our new Friday Fish Fry podcast a week from today. We’ll be launching our first episode at 8pm next Friday, the 10th of November. We’ve been in the Cast Away man cave recording for the past few weeks, and we should have a good show for ya’ll. We’re looking forward to it!

Also, we will be doing another seminar for young fishermen over in Dallas in 2 weeks so be sure and check out the flyer for more info.