Oconee 3-29

We got on the water about 8:00 expecting to get a wet backside, but the rain never came. Couldn't believe we had the whole area to ourselves until Countrytime showed up a little later. At first I thought maybe every body else knew something we didn't know, but the fish were ready to go. We caught 28 before the wind got too bad. The best bait was blue body, chartreuse tail with a pink 1/16 oz head. The 2 best fish were 1lb 13oz and 1lb 15oz, but most were in the 1 to 1 1/4 range. . Attachment 156724Attachment 156725

I planned on Oconee but I took the shorter drive to Sinclair and thankfully I did my motor messed up nice catch

Great report! what depth water were yall fishing? I am trying to decide between eufaula and oconee for tuesday

Well done!

Wtg, team Dmick, man I wish I had gotten there at the crack with you and your partner, started at 11:00AM and that's when the wind cranked up and the rain soon followed a few hours later until 6:00PM wave after wave of it. I did however crank out a hard fought 8 over 12 inches and I do mean a hard fought 8. Saw one other boat about 4:00PM and hollered at him and said, we must want to fish mighty bad you know it!

PS Those are very nice, like they say the early bird gets the worm! Congrats

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great report, nice fish

Quack the fish were in 5-8.5 fow.

We were generally catching fish in 7 feet of water and right on the bottom. We would catch fish when you could see the rod tip bouncing from the jig contacting the bottom. The first few fish I caught were on a double rig of 1/16 oz heads and on the bottom jig that was constantly bottoming out on the inside rod during a turn. I'm a little slow on the uptake, but eventually the light bulb came on. Most of the fish were concentrated in this one area where there was a change in depth of a couple of feet and the fish seemed to be right on the break. As we were leaving, we ran over a spot at about 3 MPH and marked a lot of fish in some deep water. Man that Lowrance Elite made some perfect arches! The down imaging was all lit up too. The fish were big and might have been bass or hybrids, but I dropped a minnow down and immediately caught a 4 finger fish. I thought we might have to fight the gale force winds for a while, but I never could get another bite. If they are still there this weekend I might have to give them another try.

Countrytime, we probably would have stayed on a little while and were actually talking about trying a few sheltered spots up Richland creek, but the wind had done a number on our 2 year old trolling battery. We decided that a fish filet at the MickyD's and an early arrival at the crib was the best bet. We now have a brand new trolling battery for this weekend and maybe we will make it Saturday and Sunday.

You left just in time before all the fun started, lol, thought I was going to end up on Gilligans island, wished I had left and went to Micky D's too, oh speaking of the Elite7 HDI, make sure if you don't have it, to install the new software update version 3.0 it will help the refresh rate when running the Navionics chip big time. It cuts it down from 20-25 seconds to about 3-4 seconds on the refresh when zooming in or out. Bass Pro can do for you in a few minutes. Thinking about trying it tomorrow.

My partner did get the update.