Storm Swim Shad Great Bait For Hybrids Early On Bulkheads
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Hybrid Bass Caught Fishing Bulkheads At Daylight
Hybrid Bass fishing has taken on a little different twist this year. Most of us are familiar with trolling a deep diving crank bait with a Pet Spoon tied onto the crank bait trailing 21/2 to 3 feet behind the crank bait or using a JetDiver to get the Pet Spoon down. This has been a great way to catch hybrids in the past trolling off main lake points and over humps and pond dams in all parts of the Lake and is still producing some fish this year; but, the early bite with a Rat-L-Trap of a Storm Swim Shad has produced a lot more fish and gotten more limits recently. This may change as soon as the Lake settles down and there is no longer water being released from the Lake.
This year most of the Hybrid Bass are being caught on crank baits and soft plastics early in the morning at daylight feeding on shad along the bulkheads. Bulkheads on main lake points and bulkheads that have the wind blowing the shad toward them have been the best. There have been fish caught early on all parts of the Lake from the dam area all the way North to Hwy 1375 Bridge. The problem is the action only lasts about 30 to 45 minutes and if you aren’t there when the fish are, you miss the excitement.
Most of the guides are catching Hybrids on live shad after the fish move off the bulkheads in deep shaded areas off the main lake and secondary points. They usually catch the Hybrids along with nice Blue and Channel Catfish fishing with the live shad.
If you want some hybrid action, you many have to get up a little earlier that usual.
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We have been having good luck early in the morning at the mouth of Weirs Creek up near Stow-A-Way Marina using chrome/black back Rat-L-Traps in the shallow areas on the South side of the creek.
Now That Is Telling Like It Is!
Greatings, Not sure that this is true:), but thanks for a post.