EVENTFUL DAY ON LAKE OCONEE (VIDEO)

Yesterday Jim and I fished Lake Oconee for only the second time this month. There have not been many reports from the lake lately so we began looking for fish on the north end of the lake. We started fishing about 7:45 a.m.. The water temperature was 66 degrees. We combo trolled as usual and found some fish but the bite was very slow. We had 4 good fish in the live well after about 4 hours of fishing. Finally around noon we found some "hungry" fish and from noon until 2:30 we caught 16 fish. We ended the day with 20 good fish 11-13 inches in length. We caught most of the fish in a cove in 16-18 FOW. We were fishing 8-10 feet deep. The day wasn't without some crazy moments all caused by my "lack of sense". While both of us were re-rigging and not paying attention I was able to hook us up with a boat dock and the pontoon boat it housed. We had rods sticking under the boat dock and fishing line around propeller on the pontoon boat. Jim managed to get us pushed back away from the dock while I stood there looking stupid. With fishing rods scattered all over the boat I managed to step on one of my nice trolling rods and broke the tip. Oh but I wasn't finished yet! We both managed to get everything re-rigged after about 20 minutes and started back fishing. Amazingly, the fish were still biting and I hooked up with a good fish. In the process I had a rod in each hand with a fish on one of them. I placed the other rod in the rod holder and managed to knock it in the water while fighting the fish on the other rod. I lost both the fish and another nice trolling rod and reel. The good news is that we had a great day and made it home safe in spite of my ineptitude.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeFMndSw_W4

Good day and video! You should have put the boat dock and pondtoon boat on the video. That sounds like something that I would do.

Great report!!!

Look good Hotwater was the wind bad seeing the water it did not look to bad did it rain any

Always enjoy your posts!

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Look good Hotwater was the wind bad seeing the water it did not look to bad did it rain any

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Hobo we found fish in a cove that happened to be sheltered by the wind which is rare on Oconee. It rained long enough for us to put on our rain gear and then it quit.

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Good day and video! You should have put the boat dock and pondtoon boat on the video. That sounds like something that I would do.

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Thunder I couldn't put the boat dock incident in the video. Some of the language was salty.

Enjoyed the video, great as always. Thank you for posting

Great report...I have been wondering where you have been. And we have all had those type days and "salty language" doesn't really help but it makes one feel better. lol My last trip to Blackshear I broke a rod as well and found out I have to replace my trailer bunks.:banghead

Good to see y’all back in the saddle again. Great catch.

yes i have had those salty days .just have to hold my toung when the wife is in the boat .

Great report, Jay.

Been there, done that with docks and rods.:yikes:Doh:

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Thunder I couldn't put the boat dock incident in the video. Some of the language was salty.

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You could title it “Things not to say when you take the preacher fishing.”


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Good to see you back on the water and posting videos. I enjoy your videos. I tried some longlining here in Texas yesterday and had a pretty good day. We caught 39 and kept 11 nice ones for a meal. You can definitely get yourself in a mess if not careful, but I think I am going to like it once I get a little more practice with the method. I was only using 6 poles, just a beginner, lol.

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Good to see you back on the water and posting videos. I enjoy your videos. I tried some longlining here in Texas yesterday and had a pretty good day. We caught 39 and kept 11 nice ones for a meal. You can definitely get yourself in a mess if not careful, but I think I am going to like it once I get a little more practice with the method. I was only using 6 poles, just a beginner, lol.

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Good to hear from you. Thank you for the feedback as I have been wondering how your longlining experiment was going. I encourage you to stay with it. The two rods I lost/broke were recently added. Up until a couple of months ago I used 8 rods but added the two additional rods to give me 10. The benefit of the 2 extra rods seemed to out-weigh the negative aspects. I do what you are doing. Experiment! Use the number you are comfortable with and in time you will settle on a set-up that works for you. Now, after this last trip some might say that maybe I should go back to what I was doing. However, 10 rod vs. 8 rods was not the problem. The dock issue was caused by trying to steer the boat with a trolling motor that was turned off by accident. I didn't realize what was going on until it was too late. My bad. Last year in one day of fishing we caught lines in the TM three different times and ran aground once. Notwithstanding those mishaps, we caught a lot of fish that day. Keep me posted on your results. Good fishing.

I was worried about you two. Glad you're back in the boat again. We have all broke or lost rods/reels at one time or another. Just a casualty of our favorite past-time "Fishing". Keep the trolling videos coming.

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Good job guys glad you got out. I was getting worried about Georgias best Producer and Director.

Great report enjoyed the video. I fished Sugar Creek caught 2 throw backs. Water was muddy and the wind was high.