First trip to the powerplant this year

[bluebasser86]

Haven't been fishing anywhere other than ponds in almost a month and was starting to twitch so a friend and I decided to brave the cold and rain. Pretty constant rain all day and temps in the mid 40's made weather less than perfect but water temps in the mid 60's and the plant generating had the fish biting! Swimbaits ruled the day, mostly 4" versions of Berkley or Storm swimbaits. My first swimbait bass of the day was a fattie at 18 1/4 inches long and 4lbs 6oz.

Another fattie.

Swallowed swimbait.

Most awesome one of the day. We were at the outlet, skipping swimbaits under the cables when a fish started popping shad right off the rock point. Too shallow for the swimbait I was throwing so I ran a spinnerbait by and a big fish blasted it but didn't hook up. Grabbed my swimbait rod with a 6" Spro BBZ 1, fired it and held my rod high so it would run right under the top. Got to the same spot and got plowed. Didn't weigh her because she got the back hook deep and I wanted to get her back in the water as soon as possible but was probably in the 4.5-5lb range.


It was a fun day, wish my friend could have got on a big one but maybe next time.