LAY LAKE By Reed Montgomery Reeds Guide Service 12/9/11
By Reed Montgomery / Reeds Information Service
Birmingham, Alabama (205) 663-1504
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Lake amount: Full Pool
H2o Temperature: Mornings 52 / Evenings 56
Drinking water Clarity: Obvious principal lake, some creeks stained
Air Temperature: Large 55 / Lows reduced-to-mid 30’s
Predicted Weather: Sunny weekend in the mid-50’s with awesome mornings in the lower 30’s / hotter in the mid-60’s and a opportunity of rain Tuesday-Thursday .
MONDAY, DECEMBER 5 2011
A Really Wonderful Reduced-sixty Diploma DAY WITH Several SHALLOW LARGEMOUTH BASS
ON ALABAMA’S LAY LAKE
I fulfilled a few of younger brothers (youthful, when compared with me!) at Beeswax creek at mid-Lay lake close to dawn on a calme early morning in the lower-30’s. We will just get in touch with them Mike and Al. Mike was right here browsing his brother Al that lived south of Birmingham and Al mentioned he fished the Warrior River reservoir, Bankhead Lake regularly, exactly where I grew up fishing as properly. Mike was here just passing by way of. He was shifting from North Carolina to Florida and he was in the service.
They ended up the two right here to catch some Coosa River breed of spotted bass, it’s possible even fool a largemouth bass or two and potentially luck up into a huge, striped bass!
All 3 of these bass species thrive in Lay lake from its headwaters, to mid lake and these bass exist all the way down to the reduced Lay lake dam region. From dam to dam (about fifty miles) on Lay lake these three bass species are now continuously feeding and fattening up for the winter season months ahead. We hoped to interrupt their feeding and catch a couple of bass, with our pretend offerings.
As I slowly idled the boat out of Beeswax Creek (as the dawn of an additional lovely day commenced), I donned my toboggan, gloves and a heavy coat. They each looked over at me with a significant appear on their faces and then we all well prepared for the calme early morning boat trip. I promised to keep it below 60 m.p.h.!
The heat morning sun felt good, as it beamed down on our now fifty percent-frozen faces, as we arrived at our very first location of the day.
A major feeder creek — beaming with the morning fog — welcomed us, as its really very first visitors of the day. It was loaded with all kinds of aquatic weeds, boulders and guy manufactured rip- rap rocks, plenty of fish-attracting wooden go over like stumps, trees, brush piles, laying logs and it had visible signs of bait fish.
This creek had great, deep depths of 10 feet or much more, for harboring those massive, wintertime bass that could retreat to deeper h2o in the course of adverse problems. It had plenty of a lot less-deeper h2o, that in that 1-3 foot range, loaded with all types of aquatic weeds and wooden cover. From around 30 a long time of knowledge fishing this a single creek alone, I realized it also has some massive bass, on about any morning. As I informed Mike and Al, whilst I decreased the trolling motor in the drinking water and then poured myself a extremely welcome heat cup of coffee.
So their hopes ended up high as we began to deceifer every and each and every possible bass-keeping spot in that creek. The water temperature was 53 degrees at dawn.
Hopefully, this location with above a mile of weedy waters was excellent ample for a minimum a couple of bites, just to start off the relatively awesome early morning, appropriate. But the quite cold evening had dropped the drinking water temperature around 10 degrees, from the day ahead of, making "bass lock jaw" on the typically, a lot much better early early morning bite, in this creek.
It was a very slow start off for our day, with no bites in the first two hrs of dawn! I understood there had been bass here, even though we had attempted every single kind of open up water lure and different weed less lures to, but all to no avail. So I had to make a determination. Leave this creek and go up the lake? Or go down the lake? From current encounter and seeing some good bass caught mainly down the lake in a lot clearer drinking water situations, I pointed that Ranger Z Bass Boat south. It turned out to be a very good transfer.
Lay Lake has the Coosa River breed of spotted bass discovered lake extensive, from the lake’s headwaters to the lower lake’s dam. It can also have some really shallow largemouth bass on days when you minimum assume it. Like nowadays! Frequently, whilst fishing in temperatures in the lower-to-mid 70’s for the duration of 1 of December’s sudden winter season warming tendencies an angler can fool plenty of shallow bass. But when its chilly in the morning’s initial few hrs, items alter. So an angler ought to adjust his/her tactics to productively catch bass!
There ended up numerous kinds of lures that created all of the bass Mike and Al caught that day. As a matter of fact, they could have fished three-4 sorts of lures only, on this great, slow, but at some point successful sunny day, that grew to become some extremely comfy climate, like quick sleeves! Then, that evening it grew to become a, "partly cloudy day" real fast! Yet another rainy front was relocating in, the barometer was falling, it received true cloudy and windy and then… the bass commenced to bite!
Of program then Mike and Al managed to fool a few quite wonderful (and fat) three-four pound largemouth bass fishing with lures like a Zoom’s white trick worm, an oversized 5/8ths ounce chartreuse and white gold-bladed spinnerbait, a Rapala chrome/blue back again Rattlin’ Rap and a Strike King one/2 ounce shad-coloured Red Eye Shad (equally lipless lures), mainly fished in 1-four ft of drinking water! They fooled these shallow bass, mostly in and close to the grass. Although a spot and 1 striped bass came on the Red Eye Shad!
The air temps that morning at dawn was in the 30’s, with drinking water temps in the low-50’s. The air temp was shut to 60 degrees by midday and drinking water temps (in which we fished) was close to 60 degrees, as the approaching rainy front arrived that evening. It was well really worth the boat trip, running a number of miles down the lake, as we did locate some cooperating bass, and on this day, 1 nice striped bass and our largest largemouth bass was about four pounds!
Of course, as we launched the boat that morning we have been all by yourself on the lake as properly. But it turned out to be a relatively great day, size-clever! Not a great deal of bass bites but these that did bite had been "well appreciated" although I once once more enjoyed fishing with pleasurable business, on just one more day on Alabama’s Lay lake fishing with Reeds Guide Service!
* Pictures – As you can see (if there is a photograph with this write-up, if not, see it on my website’s Lay lake and other reports www.fishingalabama.com)
When these two anglers arrived in, their day was comprehensive with lots of brotherly smiles and some nice largemouth bass images I took! All although fishing Lay lake’s weeds, wooden go over and rock cover on a calme, but what turned out, to be a extremely great day!
* On Lay Lake, even in December with the lake’s winter h2o cooling down relatively, there are always some cooperating bass to target!
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Reed Montgomery / Out of doors Author
Owner / Reeds Information Support
Alabaster, Alabama (205) 663-1504
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