Saturday, February 20, 2010

Thomas Hill Outing


Thursday I had the day off classes and I was fortunate to get out on Thomas Hill with local angler Tony Lain. It was a great day to be on the water. We had air temps in the mid to upper 30's with not a whole lot of wind with plenty of sunshine.

When we put the boat in we found water temps in the hot water arm to be 51 to 52 degrees. We were able to put a couple of bass in the boat fairly early into the day. The fish were keying in on shallow wood on points and hitting our jigs flipped in the bushes in 1 to 2 feet of water.

We spent some of the day running down the lake to put some hours on a new Suzuki motor. The water on the mainlake was pretty cold when you got away from the hot water arm. It was as cold as 37 degrees.

At the end of the day we made the trip up the hot water ditch and Tony caught a better largemouth on a jig and I caught a couple of small hybrids on Smack Tackle's Flitterbait in the Gizzard Gray pattern. The water up the ditch was 57 degrees but it was a little muddier than usual. They were running a lot of water and the current was pretty quick.

I was surprised that in heading up the ditch we couldn't hook up with some bigger hybrids. The past couple of years that I've gotten out on Thomas Hill those 3 to 4lb hybrids would be up in the canal and you could just murder them. Seems like the hybrids were either not there or were really inactive. There were a couple of boats out on the lake and I don't think we saw anyone else catch a fish all day.

While the fishing wasn't on fire at least I got to throw a couple of new AiRRUS rods, test out a couple of new baits, and get some fishing in before I leave for the FLW National Guard College Fishing tournament on Bull Shoals which is now only two weeks away.

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