Cold Front Hot Spot

I have always avoided fishing immediately after a cold front if I had a choice of other days to fish. Several days ago I had set plans to fish with my brother, and a cold front passed our way the night before here on pool 14. We went out before sunrise and fished several hours with very little success. Fishing slack current areas, deep holes, sand bars, etc. My trolling motor started giving me flack, so we decided to anchor and fish a wing dam that had been productive the week before with stable weather conditions. There was a stiff easterly breeze, rising barometer, and bright high sky. We anchored above a small hole or depression in the wing dam, where some tree limbs have lodged in the rocks. Tossed crawler rigs with a small spinner in line, and moved them VERY slowly to the boat. In 3 hours on that spot we boated over 35 eyes, with more than enough 15″ plus fish to fill 2 limits. The fish were very light biters, causing us to lose many fish before adding a second hook on our crawler rigs, but we had a very good day on what should have been a tough day all around. When things slowed there, we moved to a similar spot on a nearby wing, and caught 3 very nice 20″+ fish, before calling it a day. Just goes to show the more you think you know, the more you have to learn!
Pool 14 is litterally packed with 12-15″ fish now. It is a very nice sign for the short term future of this pool. Great population of young fish, and a very good spawn in 2001 should keep us in the eyes for the next several years!
Rooster

Rooster , you better save me some fish for this weekend!!!!!
Its not fair you live there. John

Hey John,

We CPR’d all the big ones and most of the smaller ones. Only actually kept some for the pan. Gotta keep momma happy by bringin’ home some tasty treats from time to time!

Yea ,my wife wants me to bring some home this weekend also. I wonder if she can tell the difference between walleyes and sheepheads!!! LOL

Hey there Rooster !!

It sure is good to hear you put some fish in the boat. Some of the past postings in the spring sounded dismal. Well done on a not at all perfect day !!

ec

Thanks ec, it was a fun day. Several lately. Just had to get out of some old patterns I was stuck in I think.
John, if not sheepies, fiddler cats have been a real pain in the bait bucket also. When they get full, then the eyes have time to eat the worms!!!LOL

Talk about old patterns….

if your ever up in the area and I have off we should go out hand lining. This sure put a lot of fish in my boat this year.

ec

That sounds like fun. I am hoping to come up there this fall, not sure yet. I’ve been reading about handlining, and your reports have me really interested! I’ll sure keep it in mind, and if I’m coming up I’ll let you know in advance!!