Sep 26 2021
Charles McCallum
Fingerling
Member Since :
2021
Number of Posts :
57
Reservation Number : 29640
Property Name : Double A Lake
Reservation Date : 09/25/2021 All Day -
Total Fish/Sizes : 16 largest 3lb 14oz
Lures Used : Drop shot & Alabama rig
Fellow member,Mike Nicoloff, and I made our first trip out to Double A ranch. Hit water at sunrise with water temps at 76 and calm slick surface.
Commited the first hour to topwater and it was non existent. There wasn't even surface activity most of the morning. We worked the weed edge as well as the huge point that runs through the middle of the lake. We tried walking baits, frogs, wake baits with no luck.
Moved to mid column baits with swimbaits, chatter baits and medium cranks and still no takers. We noticed quite a few dead shad on the surface and as with previous reports we'd see a blow up here and there.
Moved to bottom contact as the sun was fully up with zero cloud coverage. Tried jigs, T rig, and deep cranks. There is a ridge that runs from the north bank towards the south that is 12-14 ft with 30 ft water on either side(see map below). We anchored and worked our baits up the slope. Finally subcumbed to not catching and pulled out the trusty drop shot with a 7” Roboworm in morning dawn red flake. We could see the fish 1-2 ft off the bottom so left an 18” leader from hook to weight. That did the trick and slowly started picking up a few, though smaller.
The biggest fish of the day came this same way, in fact as I was working the bait back I could've sworn I was snagged on the bottom, we pulled anchor and started moving to retrieve it when it started pulling back. I could've sworn I had a 5-6 lber on the line the way it fought, in fact even the small 2 lbers fought hard, reminded me of the bass at deer trail.
With the bass busting shad I decided to throw an Alabama rig to try and simulate a school of shad and hooked up with 2 this way but one, which we got a good look at and looked big, got off.
All the fish seem super fat, in fact their mouths look way too small for their bodies. They must be gorging on shad all day, we even saw wounded shad swimming at the surface and the bass couldn't be bothered to pick them up.
We met Joe the owner during our brief lunch break and he was giving us the history of the property and wanted to make sure we were having a good time.
It was a bit of a grind but it was fun using the electronics to try and figure out what could be seen from old satellite images. We were off the water by 4pm.
Sep 26 2021
Scott Wheeler
Fingerling
Member Since :
2020
Number of Posts :
84
Thank You For The Detailed Report, I’ll Be On Double A Next Saturday
October 2nd.
Take Care & Stay Fishing My Friend.