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"The 1st day I fished in Lowe's Creek right across from the boat ramp, and Slaughter Creek. I caught 'em really good early – the bait was up high and the fish were swimming good. Later it would get better...81 lbs on day 1.

> "Day 2 [he was so far ahead] I just went and practiced. I ran all over the lake. I tried to check water color. I'd roll into areas, side scan and down scan just looking for bait. When I'd finally get in an area with bait, I'd catch 'em and leave. ...waypoint that area, the next day run I'd run in there and the bait was not there. It went like that all week.

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"The biggest key for that is making really good pitches. I spent all fall trying to get my mechanics right and getting all my transducers set up. When you made a pitch on a fish, it was critical to make that first pitch [on the money] because if not the fish will swim too close to the boat and that would mess him up and he wouldn't bite.

> "The fish are naturally are attracted to your boat because they're curious. They'll be swimming to your boat...if they broke that threshold of like 30' [away from the boat] they wouldn't bite. You had to make a really accurate cast and that's what separates a lot of the guys.

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Posted by Clyde Tipton

Planet Earth

Member since Dec 2007

38855 posts

Posted on 2/7/24 at 11:49 am to AlxTgr

No big uns but, I went to Caddo Lake yesterday on short notice since the weather was so nice. Fished between 10 am and 2:15 pm.

Blanked the first two hours or so throwing a chatterbait, spinnerbait and wacky worm in Big Green Brake. 50% shaded with cypress and water temp was 56-58 degrees.

Moved to a South facing bank with no shade, a little sporadic hydrilla and found 60.4 degree water. Caught 5 ripping crawfish rattletraps in the grass.

I feel like I could take that info to Toledo, focus on the classic rattletrap/grass technique and catch them pretty good right now.