Father's Day 2011

Had a great Father's day! Cards, fudge, Truffles, Face Book greetings, Columbia Fishing Shirts and nice rain jacket plus my 2nd Daughter and her family came over. B.J. my G'son wanted to fish so Brian (SnL) joined us for an outing on Center Hill Lake. We got out about 2:30 in the afternoon and finished up about 7:30 (T-Storms & Lightening caused a quick exit) and we were back at the house for Pizza by 8 PM. Water temp was about 90, water quality was dingy from all the weekend pleasure boaters but 12-fish were caught on jigs. I caught 3-each SM, LM and Spot. B.J. caught one LM and Brian caught 2-each LM. The fish didn't start cooperating until about 5:30 when the boat traffic calmed. A great day, thoroughly enjoyed!

June 14, 2011 - Center Hill Lake

My Grandson, Isaac is visiting so we fished Center Hill Lake from about 3 until 7:30 yesterday afternoon. I caught a very nice Spotted Bass on a football head Zorro 3/4-oz jig (greenish) and a Zoom trailer in 9-12' of water. Isaac caught his first crank-bait bass on a square lipped 8' ghost gray crank-bait and did it off the Doc while I was loading the boat to leave! He caught 1-bass earlier on a jig and 3-off the dock in the last 5-minutes of fishing. Tonight, if weather allows, he wants to catch his first Spinner-Bait Bass. Good times! Maybe we will have some pictures to share after tonight.

Center Hill Lake surface temperatures are 89 - 93 degrees. The water is clearing but slightly stained and fish are hitting early and late in 5-15' of water close to sharp cliffs and breaks on a variety of lures.

Saturday evening, Center Hill, June 11

Launched about 3:30 PM, at Ragland Bottom and immediately had to compete with droves of PWC, houseboats, ski-boats and pontoons but I knew they would thin out as the evening wore on. The last 1-hour of fishing I hooked a real nice smallmouth but he unbuttoned at the boat - looked to be in the 3-4# class. Same hole gave up this LM about 10-minutes later. 3/4-oz Dale Hollow color Zorro Jig and root beer Zoom trailer was the bait of the evening. Water was badly stained and choppy due to the high volume of traffic. Only a slight breeze, water temp 89. Much better than whatever was on TV.

CenterHill - Slowly Breaking the Code

I fished Center Hill this afternoon for a few hours. It seems I'm slowly breaking the code. Tonight I caught several nice spots, 1-nice Large Mouth and missed a couple of nice fish. Great to get out in the cooler part of the day.