Harris 12/20

Found the fish suspended 20-25 feet in 36-40 fow about mid south lake. They are feeding on the baitfish that are 30 feet deep. If you find the baitfish put out your baits at that depth early. After 9:30 they will suspend just above the bait balls.

They don’t want a moving bait. You could get them spider rigging at .1 or use livescope and a long pole. They are scattered. Tip on finding the baitfish is look for the loons. They were diving down 30 feet feeding on the shad. Good luck if you go this weekend should be good. I used a 1/16 hitman hairjig that had a lot of sparkle in it. They smashed that bait the best. Second best was a slab slayer black and chart on 1/16 head. Smaller baits were better. It took me about an hour to figure out this pattern so hopefully this helps someone.


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Great advice

Great report. Thanks for sharing.

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Good report. Thanks for sharing

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nice fish

Great report. Thanks for sharing with us

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Great report and fish! Thanks for sharing

Nice report. Welcome to the site by the way. I live about 15 minutes from Harris Lake and have been looking forward to the fish getting deeper.
While I've managed to catch 50 - 60 each trip, they have not yet been the quality of fish that I expect this time of year.
I'm planning to hit it one day or two next week. Thanks for sharing.

We fished Harris two days this week and found fishing good. All tournament fish above 1.5 we through back and kept the "smaller ones". I think most, if not all, of the so-called smaller fish were over a pound.

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Nice report. Welcome to the site by the way. I live about 15 minutes from Harris Lake and have been looking forward to the fish getting deeper.
While I've managed to catch 50 - 60 each trip, they have not yet been the quality of fish that I expect this time of year.
I'm planning to hit it one day or two next week. Thanks for sharing.

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The better quality fish I caught were setting up as singles or doubles. Thats great you live so close I enjoyed fishing that lake. I'm about an hour west of HR and usually fish there in the winter but it hasn't been setting up as good as years past.

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We fished Harris two days this week and found fishing good. All tournament fish above 1.5 we through back and kept the "smaller ones". I think most, if not all, of the so-called smaller fish were over a pound.

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Nice fish. I let all mine go as I have some in the freezer but I don't think I caught one smaller than 11". Id like to fish harris and jordan more, enjoyed fishing there.

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Nice fish. I let all mine go as I have some in the freezer but I don't think I caught one smaller than 11".

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Glad to see you let them go since you didn’t need them. There’s too many individuals fishing Harris/Jordan that are keeping every fish they catch including the 2+lbers.


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Originally Posted by Jet Jockey

The better quality fish I caught were setting up as singles or doubles. Thats great you live so close I enjoyed fishing that lake. I'm about an hour west of HR and usually fish there in the winter but it hasn't been setting up as good as years past.

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Yeah, that's typically the case with the bigger ones for me too. I do not livescope (and just prefer not to). Normally I'll mark several groups of fish in an area, and tightline the course from one group to the next... usually finding that I pick up the bigger fish here and there between the groups.