Fishing the hot side

[3dkicker]

Heading down to the nuclear cesspool tomorrow to fish with the guys and try to claim the first of many for 2009 . Weather sucks and the fish are pre and post spawn. Should be a good time. And while I'm fishing 60-65 degree water BassAddict will be trying his luck on the other half of the lake in the 45 degree water in the same miserable weather. I'm going to try and meet up with him after and compare notes.

[bamabassman]

good luck guys! and please post some pics ok? raining like crazy here today and tomorrow. cold front here too.......sheesh. soulfly is supposed to come and fish guntersville this weekend, said he would call me when he hit town. i hope he catches some in the rain.

[Jim80]

good luck guys let us know if ya get a glowing fish or one with three eyes .


jim

[sharpe012010]

definately let us know! too cold and rainy here this weekend.. or atleast thats what everyone will tell me when im puttin my boots on in the morning!!!

[MrPhotographer06]

please let me know how this goes.. as soon as the boat gets all rigged up and running decent were going down to my local nuclear lake..

we went by it today and it was SMOKIN.. haha

or steamin.. haha got brittish weather goin on.. 45* and drizzling

[aikenyounggun]

do fish spawn all year in nuclear lakes??? i have never fished one and never really figured it out

[MrPhotographer06]

this question came up today when i was showing anthony our lake.. he was like.. well if bass like to spawn in a sustaned 60* water.. do they just spawn all year in nuclear lakes?

i said.. idk..good question

[3dkicker]

Didn't see any spawning fish even though the first of the three ponds (actually large feeder creeks that are dammed up and then connected by a channel/canal) was 70 degrees. The second pond was in the low 60's to low 50's. Never went to the 3rd pond. Didn't have a good day. Only caught one fish, 1 lb 10 oz, on one of my 4" GP/Chart Core Flipping tubes. My partner caught two on a Baby Brush Hog and lost one kicker. I didn't take any photos because it was just too cold. We had sleet falling for a short period of time and when you're running I found out in hurts getting hit by the ice particles. Who would have thought??? It rained for most of the day too. Just plain nasty weather.
Others in the club did well. One member caught a dozen fish throwing a RICO in 60 degree water. Most found fish on points and used plastics too. I think the best bag was around 10lbs with a few more with 7 and 8 lbs.

On the cold side I checked to see how BA did but didn't see him when they were passing out the checks. Winning weight there was 16 lbs +. BassAddict can expand on how his day went.

[MrPhotographer06]

sweet.. well i think were goin out on the lake tuesday.. idk if we'll do any fishing.. but i'll try and get a water temp

[aikenyounggun]

yeah the weather was pretty nasty here too.... it just kind of misted all day...... it was kind of weird.... it was almost like fog that was comin down

[Bassboss]

Cool! Good luck with your trip!

[MrPhotographer06]

we've got like.. europe weather .. misty,cold,miserable,..

[3dkicker]

We were sposed to have high 40's or low 50's but I doubt it got out of the 30's today. The wind and rain didn't help. Just nasty weather and I'm still cold from being out in it all day. And guess what we're getting more tomorrow

[MrPhotographer06]

we've got rain from today through monday afternoon..

YUCK

tuesday its supposed to warm up and dry up

[bamabassman]

yea 3d we had a tough day here weather wise as well. might be better tomorrow, gonna try it and see. i just want the wind to die down some, 30 mph is just too windy.

[MrPhotographer06]

that would deffinately make for a bad day on my 14ft

[MrPhotographer06]

hopefully tuesday we are lake bound

[BigBassin144]

For once, we've got decent weather. It got to almost 50 yesterday, sunny, and no wind. It felt like it was 60. I was outside all day either working in the yard or fishing. And most of the day I had on a T-shirt!

Today's high is 55. Tomarrow 58, and tuesday 62! I can't wait. sunny or party cloudy every day.

BB

[aikenyounggun]

yeah from monday to thursday last week it got to 80.... shorts and t-shirt and was still hot.... i only wear shorts anyway so its not like it matter..... it was really nice tho

[MrPhotographer06]

i wear jeans except when its like 60 + i hate being cold and in shorts..

[aikenyounggun]

for someone reason i am always hot when people are cold... it takes a lot for me to get cold

[bamabassman]

you're young bub. that'll change in about 20 or 30 yrs.lmao.

[BassAddict]

I guess I missed this earlier. We didn't set the lake on fire but we did catch 4 fish for 6.44 lbs. Finished 27th out of 76 teams. The male bass are moving to the back of the coves it seems. We caught all our fish on suspending jerkbaits. Water temp was between 46-48. Rained most of the day and was cold. Was actually better than Friday though. It snowed most of the day with some sleet mixed in. That was MISERABLE!!!! Remind me not to fish in that again!!!

3D... guess you should have fished the COLD side!!!

[wv basser]

we fished the hot side for the first time in feb. our club had a tourney there. it was awesome fishing 68 degree water in sub freezing temps. we caught somewhere around 130 fish in three days. biggest of the event went 3.75. seems like alot of fish in the lake but not alot of big fish. locals say they have seen the water 102 degrees in the summer!

[aikenyounggun]

i still want to know if in lakes like that fish will bed all year if the temp is right... i heard in florida fish will bed twice.... sometimes even three times