That sums up the day. Catch or go home. Depending on match time for the three-hour morning and afternoon sessions ahead. Yesterday’s match ups flipped, with Gerald Swindle and Mike McClelland going head-to-head in the morning round.
Yesterday afternoon I covered “G Man” and “Pee Paw,” as they are known among friends and family. Swindle did what he does best, which was junk fishing and using a number of different baits. That even included pitching a structure spoon into boat slips at a deep water marina. The payoff bait was a shaky head, though.
And the same thing for McClelland. He leaned hard on a favorite lure and tactic: Cranking a Spro Mike McClelland RkCrawler 55 Crankbait. He fished the wide-wobbling, deflection heavy lure parallel along shorelines bordering deep water. At times the afternoon was very frustrating. When McClelland went offshore he could see bass inside the cone of his fishfinder without any luck.
Another factor we noticed was a lack of surface activity. Gettys Brannon noted that on Tuesday activity was very noticeable. So far it looks like more of the same this morning.