Tims Ford Lake
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Species
TroutSeason
Spring (Pre-Spawn)
Technique
Inline Spinners
Structure
Dam
Forage
Shad
Species
Striped BassSeason
Spring (Spawn)
Technique
Topwater Walking
Structure
River Channels
Forage
Shad
Stripers are coming up through the river channels and creeks to spawn. Threw a big white walker and caught the limit of big stripers on a channel feeding into Tims Ford.
Species
Striped BassSeason
Spring (Post-Spawn)
Technique
Hard Jerkbaits
Structure
River Channels
Forage
Shad
Water Temperature
66°
Threw a shallow jerkbait in about 3 foot of water in a little swift channel. Caught a couple good stripers.
Species
Smallmouth BassSeason
Spring (Spawn)
Technique
Texas Rigs (Worming)
Structure
Laydowns
Forage
Crawfish
Water Temperature
60°
All together it was an amazing day! Tried several different Strategies and nothing was really working! At day light! Caught a few short fish! Around 10:00 A.M. this morning we were in the back of pocket pitching a jig, and a Texas rig around some laydowns, and fallen brush piles!! My fishing partner caught a 19 1/2" smallmouth! On a rage craw! So we started looking at every pocket we went by to see if there were any fallen trees and graphed around to see what was in the pockets. We put 5 fish in the boat for a total weight of 17.47 lbs.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Spawn)
Technique
Texas Rigs (Pitch/Flip)
Structure
Docks
Forage
Crawfish
Water Temperature
55°
Water was cooler this morning but warmed up in low 60! Started Pitching a Jig and Rage Crawl on some Brush Pile and a New Secret Bait I’m working on For Myself!!!! Anyways Pitched them around Some Isolated Boat Docks with Brush Pile and Caught so Dinks and Caught a few nice ones!
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Pre-Spawn)
Technique
Spinnerbaits
Structure
Ledges
Forage
Shad
Threw around a little fishing hole around one of the main creek entries at this lake. Caught a couple good sized largemouths.
Species
Smallmouth BassSeason
Spring (Pre-Spawn)
Technique
Crankbaits 7'-12'
Structure
Brush Piles
Forage
Shad
Water Temperature
62°
Tournament morning! Had 119 Boat for the Charity Tournament! I Drew Boat # 71! Started Fishing Main Lack River Channels, and found having really good luck fishing any of Isolated Brush Piles or Big LayDown Logs! Didn’t do any good! Caught 3 nice ones! One was 1/4” short of 18”in.!! The second one was 3/8” short, the last one was 1/16” short, but I couldn’t make the tail sweep 18” For anything! I set him in the live well just a few seconds maybe to relax, but it just would not hit 18”! Had 4 fish for the day. 13.64" for 5 smallmouth.
Species
Smallmouth BassSeason
Spring (Pre-Spawn)
Technique
Spoons
Structure
Ledges
Forage
Shad
Water Temperature
57°
Practicing for the tournament for the third day! Stuck with the deeper side of the point’s in the main river channel! They were biting anywhere from as soon as it hit the water to 15-18’ foot deep! And the bit never really was there for me! On all my treble hook bait a lot of fish were foul hooked!
