OCONEE WEDNESDAY 9/16/16

[Hotwater]

Jim and I fished Lake Oconee yesterday. Jim recently returned from a fishing trip to Lake Monroe in Florida where he fished with his brother-in-law. They caught their limit both days so I figured we needed to fish while Jim was on a "hot streak". We began fishing at 7:30 and the water temperature was 58-59 degrees. We changed our technique and instead of pushing/pulling we both spider-rigged. Jim pushed jigs out of the front of the boat and I straight lined jigs tipped with minnows out of the back. The bite was very good early and we had nearly 20 fish by 10:00. The afternoon bite was much slower but we caught bigger fish. The water warmed up to 62-63 by the time we finished at 4:30. We kept 40 fish. We caught two 14 inch fish and several fish 13 inches or bigger. Jim's hot streak continued. He caught 21 fish on jigs. I caught 19 with the minnows. I'll take a second place like that any day. The water is 3-4 feet low. The fish we caught were in the channel.

[hobo]

Good Job Men, Good yall are fishing again, the fish are getting thick. water temp is come down too, Mr. Jim will get spoiled if he goes to Monroe to much you can use one jig all day not to many hangs.

[Hotwater]

Good Job Men, Good yall are fishing again, the fish are getting thick. water temp is come down too, Mr. Jim will get spoiled if he goes to Monroe to much you can use one jig all day not to many hangs.

You are right about hang-ups. We used more than one yesterday.

[thespiderman]

As usual, yall get'em again. Great catch.

[Slabby15]

Nice fish and a great trip. Y'all are doing well this fall.

[rcfillingham]

Nice mess of fish! Great way to spend a day!