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Fishing the Skinny Water at Santee
With the wind expected to howl on Friday, I decided to load up the jon boat and jig poles and try to find a few fish shallow. I started out fishing a few brush with limited success. Once the winds got cranked up. I headed into a shallow bay full of trees and pads/grass and started dabbling my jigs around the structure. First tree I stuck it by produced a chunky little bass. The next couple nothing, the jig got thumped on the fourth tree only to have me jerk and miss. I pitched back in and a solid big black buck crappie commenced to pitching a fit on the end of my pole. After a good tussle, I lost him at the boat. It's tough fishing when your using an 11 foot pole, with only two feet of line hanging at the end of it fishing under trees in 20 MPH winds, but it was fun! Not every tree held a fish, but enough did that my attention was focused the entire time I was on the water. Along with 3 bass and a couple of jack fish, many fish were lost, but a nice limit was kept, and the fish were a beautiful glossy black when caught. The cooler shot doesn't do them justice, but the ones I'm holding up get my point across. Water temps reached nearly 68 degrees in that shallow flat, nearly every fish was caught in two feet or less of water around standing, live trees. Pink and blue jigs in 1/32 ounce weights were best, vertical jigging was the method used.
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One of the first fish caught on the day.
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You can really see the beauty in this one.
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The cooler shot.
