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dougiemac
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Location: Lake Allatoona
Weather: Early AM temps low 70°'s and extreme fog. By 9AM the fog was all but gone and temps were already near 80°.
I got up at 4:30a and was at the I-75 overpass dock and in the water by 5:15a. Ready to catch some bait.
Bait:
Shad weren't as big or as plentiful as they were the last outing we tried to net them, but a half dozen or so net tosses got us a couple dozen keepers.
After we caught bait, we loaded up and left for the Red Top Mountain dock and was in the water again by 6:30AM.
It being a weekend, the lake was BUSY! Our normal go-to spot had a small bass boat already in place before sunrise. Soon after we arrived, two more small boats and two kayakers were nearly bumping us as we trolled on circles.
The Catch:
We immediately hit a decent sized catfish and one Striper. But after the first two hits, everything got quiet, except on the top water which was alive! So we tosses a few out and fished the top that landed us a couple average to small sized Large Mouth Bass.
We moved to another spot further down the lake and hit a couple more Large Mouth Bass on top and a couple average sized Stripers.
We packed it up by 9:30AM and headed for some B&G (biscuits & gravy) at Doug's Place.
All in all, a bad day fishing is a good day from doing anything else. Especially when you can fish with a buddy, where the conversation is worth more than the fish.
Besides, the wife and her friend are at the 2-Day Oprah thing downtown, and I couldn't stand listening anymore to Opraism's.
QOTD: What is the biggest, craziest, or most interesting thing you've pulled out of Allatoona?
Weather: Early AM temps low 70°'s and extreme fog. By 9AM the fog was all but gone and temps were already near 80°.
I got up at 4:30a and was at the I-75 overpass dock and in the water by 5:15a. Ready to catch some bait.
Bait:
Shad weren't as big or as plentiful as they were the last outing we tried to net them, but a half dozen or so net tosses got us a couple dozen keepers.
After we caught bait, we loaded up and left for the Red Top Mountain dock and was in the water again by 6:30AM.
It being a weekend, the lake was BUSY! Our normal go-to spot had a small bass boat already in place before sunrise. Soon after we arrived, two more small boats and two kayakers were nearly bumping us as we trolled on circles.
The Catch:
We immediately hit a decent sized catfish and one Striper. But after the first two hits, everything got quiet, except on the top water which was alive! So we tosses a few out and fished the top that landed us a couple average to small sized Large Mouth Bass.
We moved to another spot further down the lake and hit a couple more Large Mouth Bass on top and a couple average sized Stripers.
We packed it up by 9:30AM and headed for some B&G (biscuits & gravy) at Doug's Place.
All in all, a bad day fishing is a good day from doing anything else. Especially when you can fish with a buddy, where the conversation is worth more than the fish.
Besides, the wife and her friend are at the 2-Day Oprah thing downtown, and I couldn't stand listening anymore to Opraism's.
QOTD: What is the biggest, craziest, or most interesting thing you've pulled out of Allatoona?