In Pocaty, Chris caught one fish with a slow-rolled spinnerbait on the dropoff. He also pulled one off a stump there with a jerkbait. In West Neck, a couple fish fell for a Texas-rigged worm, and a few went for the jerkbait.
On a side note, one of the better bass Chris boated today looked like a spotted bass--"chunky but with a very small mouth," he explained, or as he described it another way, "a 2-lb. fish with the mouth of a 10-inch bass," he concluded. "I rubbed his tongue to make sure he wasn't a spot...lol," he added. [For those who may not be familiar with the distinguishing characteristics of a spotted bass, the most distinguishing feature is a rough patch of "teeth" on the tongue.]
This fish gave Chris some flashbacks to his days on Lake Barkley and Kentucky Lake, where he frequently caught Kentucky spotted bass and smallmouth. "Wish we had them here," he said in closing.
***UPDATE***
Eddie Sapp was reading this blog post Dec. 21, 2012, and was nice enough to send me this photo of a nearly 5-lb. spotted bass that he caught last month out of Lake Gaston. Now you have a picture to go with the description Chris gave everyone.
I also learned via email that Charlie Bruggemann broke his usual rule and fished two days in a row. As I reported yesterday, he'd had a bad day--for him, that is--in the oxbow at the mouth of Albright's. I'm happy to report that, after spending today in Oakum Creek, he's back on his game. He reported a steady catch all the way from 9:30 to 3. His totals were 13 pickerel and 18 bass. The biggest bass weighed in at 2-1, and he had four around a pound and a half apiece. The rest were dinks. He said he caught one of the pickerel on his fly rod.
When the sun came out around 1 o'clock, things "really kicked into high gear," Charlie reported. "I got several back-to-back bass."
The only downside to his day was a busted rod tip, but there's enough left to repair it, and Charlie assured me he'll "be ready to hit it again on Monday."
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