Pool 13….
Well this weekend our club had one of its monthly tournaments. I have not been on this water in quite some time. I went into a couple sloughs I often frequent and found them entirely different. I was completely blown away with the state of Running Slough. What a difference a couple years makes. Anyway…
Saturday I started the “prefish” and in true fashion just went fishing to see how things turned out. We started up by the damn looking for a few bronzebacks and were pleasantly surprised with a few keepers and one around 3lbs. We left soon after we started figuring we had at least one good spot located. From there we worked a couple wingdams and must have boated over 50 stripers. We sat on them for a couple hours pulling one about every other cast. They were ranging from about 1.5 – 2lbs.. who would have thought that the old bullhead pool has that many quality stripers. –grin- Amongst the stripers we would pick up an occasional largemouth and smallie right out in the tips in the heaviest current we could find. Next we start targeting some main river feeding flats adjacent to any deeper water we could find.. Yep, we found some 3lb green fish in these areas. Sol now we have about 4 spots all holding heavy 2 and 3lb fish. The week prior my partner found a pile of slop fish in the Town Lake area but with the Bass World sports tourney on pool 13 Saturday we figured these poor fish would have been shell shocked. We stopped fishing around 4:00 soaked to the bone and freezing. If not for the fishing I am sure I would have bailed much earlier. We ended up Saturday with out best fish going between 13 and 15lbs. We honestly could have had much heavier weight if we would have pulled all the bass we found. The ones we did catch were “just checking size” fish. We checked the BWS results and it seems we wouldn’t have had much problem winning that tourney. That being said would be the kiss of death. Sunday the high skies set in and the wind blew out of the north making the wingdams all but impossible to find let alone fish. Can anyone tell me why pool 13 doesn’t mark them with buoys or better yet how you fish wingdams in 40mph winds out of the north? Blasts!!!!
Anyway, with the front having past, the current rushing into the sloughs as the pool is on the rise, and the cold temps hitting hard I knew I was in for a long day. Well that is what happened. I caught ONE keeper on Sunday along with a pile of shorts. My partner pulled a small limit with all squeeker sized fish. So… That is the word from down south. The fish we did catch were stuffed up in stumps while not one single hit in the slop was had.
Hope you all got out Saturday and watched football on Sunday!
Jc
I would love to get in to some stripers before it gets too cold. We didn’t have much luck on Saturday. We caught 3 largemouth bass and a snake northern in about 4 hours. The seemed to be only hitting flukes. We tried a variety of different lures and that seemed to be the only thing to work. 
With dying weeds, I