Went fishing yesterday afternoon at Offutt Lake again around 3:30pm, only was out there for an hour. Wanted to stay longer, but my grandmother needed a favor. In anycase, i pulled in 35 bluegills on two worms tipped on a jig within that hour. Quality wasn't great as the largest one was a little under 6". Dumped them all back into the water and told myself i would go out to Walnut Creek this morning and see what size bluegill i could catch out there.
Didn't go as planned. Woke up at 5:30 and stopped at McDonald's for breakfast and about 3/4 of the way there, i realized i was driving back out to Offutt Lake again. Oh well, i thought, I'll go to Walnut Creek later today. Started to make that right handed turn to head towards the peninsula when my gut told me to turn around and head towards the north side of the lake near the archery range. Since the sun wasn't hitting the water in the area yet, i thought maybe i could try to see if some crappie were in the area. Used a hand tied jig at first and then later used a plastic with no such luck. So i tipped the hand tied jig with a little piece of worm to see what bluegill i could get and still couldn't get a bite.
As i saw the sun hit the water on the west side of the lake, i noticed some action on top of the water from larger fish, most likely bass. The water all across the lake was like glass. Very calm and no wind. As the sun was nearing my spot, i noticed the same thing, although they weren't breaking the surface of the water, you could see the water churn without the splash. By this time, i was using one of my blue fox deep series spinners. Now the area im fishing has a lot of rocks so im pretty careful not to reel so slow that it gets caught. Well, after a few casts, im gradually slowing things down and thats when i get nabbed. The line stops dead and i think, oh great caught on the rocks, as i pull it starts to giving making me think so im caught in someone's line (Since a lot of folks fish for catfish in this spot). As im pulling it up (not reeling) i see the white of a bass coming out of the murky water and start reeling, but this guy isn't putting up much of a fight. It's not until his body breaks the surface of the water that he started thrashing around and threw the spinner from his mouth. Damn! That was a 3 - 4lb bass i lost. But at least i know what they are biting on. As more sun shines in the area, the frequency of bites from the bass increase. The problem is, the retrieve has to be slow, because they didn't seem to want to chase the spinner down, and they weren't hitting it hard enough for me to tell the difference between getting snagged on the rocks to set the hook in their mouths. I had 4 Blue Fox Deep Series spinners and 8 shallow series spinners. They didn't touch the shallow series as it ran above the murky sheen in the water, only the deep series ran under it and that's where they struck. I lost the 4 deep series spinners on the rocks 2, setting the hook thinking i had a bite and the other two from retrieving it so slow it snagged. I actually got snagged about a dozen times, but eventually i lost all four. I had 7 good hits from bass, its just that the treble hook on the spinner wasn't able to stay in long enough for me to bring them in.
I tried switching to a white roadrunner with a plastic minnow body since the hook a bit bigger than the 3/16oz spinners, but they wouldn't touch that, the wanted the blue fox spinners. So i gotta go to Cabelas and get a gift card and reorder the same spinners again (They don't carry them in the store). This would be the 3rd time this year that i have had to replace the set. Might as well swing out to Bass Pro Shop and pick up some of the those plastic twin paddle tails to try and imitate the frog tadpoles.
