Here a story that happened last year on a beautiful November day. We decided to get the boat out, and go down to Coffey County Lake to fish for some smallmouth with my dad. 
I was worried about the fishing with the power plant not running. But, when we showed up at the ramp, we saw all the boats. I knew we were going to catch them. It started out slow, but like always, it took a little time to figure them out. It had been a month since we were there. We started fishing riprap in the hot water area with finesse baits. We were able to catch 5 fish. On one of the fish, Nick broke a rod swinging the fish into the boat. The twins wanted to move to an area with grass mats on the surface that held fish the last time we were there. I pulled up to the spot. The grass was gone, and the boys were upset. I told them the bass are still in the area and had just moved to the rocks. Nick’s very
first cast with a weightless stickbait, and he hooked up with a really nice fish. The fish started to make a run to deep water, then the hook popped out. So, we went back to fishing the riprap. This time it was Kyle’s turn to hook up with a good smallmouth, which we lost at the boat. I noticed there was some tall grass on the graph which was holding the fish. Next time through, my dad hooks up with a smallmouth, and we were able to get it landed. Throughout the day, we revisited the spot catching good smallmouth and largemouth. On one trip, Kyle caught three bass on three straight casts. We were able to fish a couple of other spots catching fish but the better size came off the tall grass along the riprap. We ended up catching 30 fish. It was a great day with the twins and my dad.
While I was loading the boat, the twins wanted to fish the bank. I told them it was okay, but to make sure to stay out of the way of the people that were already there fishing. It was not very long, and I heard Nick yelling “Dad I caught one.” Then a couple more minutes, Kyle caught one. While I was cleaning the boat, I heard someone say something. So, I said “What? You have another?” Then I heard someone from the bank say ” Yeah, they have another.” Nick then caught one more bass. We finished with 34 fish, and most were 16 inches. Making memories with the boys and Dad is priceless.
high school kids fishing on most of the spots. Also, you try to stay out of the way of the High School kids fishing the event. I decided to start in an area we had luck before and was out of the wind. Nick hooked up with a tiny smallmouth right away. Then we moved to the back of the cove which I made a mistake and threw by some stickup. My line started swimming off and I set the hook. It was a nice keeper largemouth.
s. We were moving around and not having much luck, so the twins wanted to go catch some more wipers. We decided to hit the south bank again which we should have never fished again. Kyle threw up by a stickup with a small crankbait and hooked up with a keeper smallmouth. He was just so excited about catching the smallmouth that he was shaking. We then caught a couple of more wipers and smallmouth.
I decided to move them to the south bank, and we would not even get a bite. Not good; we should have never fished it so hard the day before. We moved to a wind main lake point which Nick caught a non-keeper smallmouth on a crankbait. Then, I made a mistake instead of continuing to fish down the riprap along the point, I moved us over to the south bank again. The boys would hookup with a couple of wipers, but with 30 minutes to go I decided to go back to the point and fish down the riprap which Kyle would catch a keeper with
20 minutes left in the tournament. Then both the twins caught 3 more non-keeper smallmouth. They would just weigh one fish in. I found out the winning team fished riprap on the north side in the wind. Oops!!! I should have listened to that first smallmouth Nick caught off the point. The number one rule when you catch a fish is she maybe telling you whats going on. If we had fished down that riprap 2 hours earlier maybe we could have caught a limit.
fish from small to large. The state record bass is from a pond at 11.8lbs caught by a kid. I will go over just a couple of great baits and tackle that you can use on a pond to catch a lot of fish and maybe your personnel best. Also these baits are great for kids to start fishing with.
The first lure, I would recommend is a Stickbait in Green Pumpkin and Black Blue Flake. You will want to throw it weightless on a Texas rig 3/0 hook. This is a great bait to use all year long, and it will be mostly weed proof. You can use it on the spinning combo recommended above. You can fish it many ways with small jerks or just throwing it out letting it slowly sink on a slack line making sure to watch your line for any movement. If you feel weight on the end of the line, reel up and swing away. My boys have caught some really big fish on a stickbait; so if you want to catch your personnel best I recommended investing in some type of stickbait. You can find a variety of stickbaits in most stores.
nd lure would be some type of topwater, such as a popper. This is a great bait to throw on both the rod/reel combos recommended above. A smaller popper works better on spinning. Catching a bass on the surface is just awesome! It is hard to explain the feeling of seeing the bass explode on the surface attacking your popper or any of the other topwater baits out there. But make sure to watch out fishing this bait. I have been hooked 6 times in me life, and 4 times were with poppers.
The two spinnerbait colors you need are white and white/chartreuse in a 1/4 oz, and use it on the baitcasting rod and reel. A good technique with the spinnerbait is to burn the lure as fast as you can just under the surface. You cannot reel faster then a bass can swim; if they want the lure, they will catch it.