Not sure what to do right now.

The past few trips I've made have seemed to be more miss than hit. I've always had a sort of a "rule of thumb" that when the water temp finally drops below 60* the fish will move out off brush and can usually be found under bait balls feeding up for colder weather. So it should be time to start trolling,Right? Nope.
Well I'm seeing plenty of fish on bridge pilings, rock piles and other isolated structure. Some of them I'm going to assume are perch. But as I have seen in many other posts here, the bite isn't so good. I've worked many of these places hard and slow, fishing many different baits, Jigging, pushing jigs, single poling, etc....with little more recently to show for it than a boatload of frustration. I've been fishing for my entire life....45+ yrs and have never had such a hard time putting fish in the boat. I'm through ranting now, thank you all who made it through this post for listening. I know it will get better.
I guess I'm gonna go chase em again tomorrow. Sooner or later I'll get lucky again.:biggrin:biggrin

Yep, you can't catch them sitting at home........ I'm one to talk, hadn't been in 2 weeks!

I tell you Rob that cold front over the weekend cooled the lake down to 60 and they got closed mouth. Fished Monday on Hartwell from 10 til 2 with only 3 crappie boated and one bass. A lot of empty water with nothing showing and when I did find some on the bottom they wouldn't bite. Must have snagged the ones I boated :dono LOL.

Fished the hill for 2 hours yesterday and caught 15. Only bites I got was under hugh balls of shad in 15' of water. I was longlining.

Don't let it get you down. This happens to all of us. This seems to be the time of year when stable weather results in good catches but unsettled weather (much like early spring) throws them back off the bite. Trolling has been hit or miss lately, but the brushpile bite has (so far) been much more consistent. I'm guessing (not being a brushpile fisherman typically) that fronts tend to push the fish tighter into cover and make them less likely to chase down a trolled jig. Keep at it!