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Bass Fishing Winter Time
This past weekend February 8th and 9th Tennessee had a couple of warm days
together. It was just enough to get me away from the computer and out on
the lake to do what I enjoy most...FISH...
Saturday morning, I got up about 7am and saw the weather was going to warm
up so I called a buddy and told him that I had found some new lakes close to the house
and wanted to see if he would like to go wet a hook.
Picked him up at 10:30am and we were at the lake fishing by 11:00am. One thing
I noticed when we arrived; the wind was blowing 10 to 15 miles per hour and was coming in
from the west.
I know everyone has heard the old saying "wind from the west fishing is the
best; wind from the east fishing is least". Well, I am hear to tell you it is true.
We parted and took off in different directions. He went one way and I went
to where the wind was blowing into the bank. I Just knew that there had to be fish there.
I am a firm believer that the wind blows food up in the shallow for the Bass to
eat.
The water temp is still about 45 degrees and
I pulled out Bill Lewis Rat-L-Trap chrome and blue. I decided on this one due to the
sun and I knew it would give off some flash. The second cast produced a small buck
and then the next two or three provided some better fish. The fish started getting
bigger and all were coming out of one spot that I was throwing to in the lake. There
seemed to be some structure that I could not see other than one little stick that
was above the water, so I concentrated all my cast to that one spot.
About thirty minutes of me catching these fish, my buddy was seeing that I
was catching fish every other cast so he started making his way to me. About then, I had
this hog blow up on my Lipless crankbait and I missed him.
I yelled out he better hurry or I was going to catch this hog. My buddy was making his way toward me as fast as possible, but I just had to throw back in
there one more time. That was all it took; the hog hit it and the fight was on. I was not
sure at first if this was the same fish until it came to the surface and then I realized this was indeed a
hog.
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