Flooded timber

[JB]

After 3 days of rain, the lake today was up about 2 feet, with all kinds of newly flooded timber...I was going to throw the rattletrap and rogue today, but after launching the boat, I realized the water clarity was less than one foot! Just like the ol days..seems this year most of the waters I fish are super clear..
Anyway, after seeing the green tint to the water, I knew that the spinnerbait would be my first choice, and after working a bank for about half hour I started getting bass...but not really on the timbers, they were all out on the flats about 20 feet from the tree tops in the water. Got a few in the 13-15 inch range, each one was fatter than the other..worked my way into some shallow water and found no bites, so I went back over deep water and stumbled upon a giant clump of hydrilla, lowered a 3 inch Kalin grub and started just jigging where ever the grub would fall through, and got 3 more, plus two giant crappie, one I put in the live well, and two more came unhooked as I was swinging them in the boat.. went back to the flat and got another bass, it hit like a ton of bricks and had black lips, just like someone painted them on with lipstick.
I was using a white Hart spinnerbait that kevin gave me, with the red long trailer strands , and the fish were sure fiesty!

[skeeter944]

sounds like a good trip! WTG!

[crankybait]

nice... Sounds like fun. And now I'm mad because i never thought of throwing the SB in the greenish water

[texasbasser]

sounds good! i like the way those spinnerbaits look

[pig n jig]

I didn't have the day you had.I also got one of those Hart spinnerbaits from Kevin.You knew that it had fish written all over it before you tied it on didn't you ? P N J

[JB]

pnj,
yup, i havent seen water that murky all year...air temp was 43 and the weather channel said west wind, but it was actually northwest, blowing pretty hard too, plus bluebird skies...I'm going back today, wanna bet everything has changed? rofl..its worth a try...