A good early winter weather pattern is setting in and I’m almost all set to hit Wheeler reservoir and the Elk River. Here is what the out week looks like:
I’ve invested in a good set of insulated weather gear and once Amazon sees fit to deliver my watertight boots I’ll be all set. I changed the engine oil and gear oil in the bottom end and took the boat out two weeks ago. Surprisingly, I landed a 3 or 4 pound very aggressive large mouth on the large chartreuse (yeller) spinner-bait shown below.
The redish colored spinner above the yellow one I tied on earlier today after watching a couple of videos by Alex Rudd and saw the mass of bass he was pulling in from like type waters (he’s in eastern Tennessee) with a lure that color. I had one like type (kinda/sorta like) lure in my tackle box but it resembled a fish and I wanted to get a closer match to the crawdad so I picked up the one on the right above from Wally-world yesterday.
Here are a couple of video’s that demonstrate how well this type of lure is working right now.
Here is lure that I already had: colors are a good match, but (again) mine is fish like and I needed one that resembles a crawdad.
I’ve got several spots marked out where all the smart folk say the bass are hanging around this time of year. On the map below it’s about 6 miles from the star to the right most triangle. The ‘star’ on the map is where I launch, triangles are where I intend on filling the live well.
