Allatoona After Work

Date: 2.7.12
Weather: Sunny with a 4-10 mph wind
Temperature: 63
Water Temperature: 55 and stained
Moon Phase: Ful
Scenario: Pre-spawn bass suspended off ledges and rip-rap int 8-12 feet of water


In a fluke turn of events I had a couple of extra hours after work to go out and play.  I launched my Commander 140 at Bells Ferry on Lake Allatoona at 4:00.  With the stained water I opted to keep my swimbaits in the boat.  Swimbaits are visual baits, so you might as well put them up in cold, muddy water.  I tied on a H20 Express suspending jerkbait in sexy melon.  Having only two hours of daylight, I paddled around until I marked some baitfish near a bluff on a channel ledge and some bridge rip-rap.  I started off with a fast jerk-pause retrieve; no takers.  Slowing down, I began a much more gentle pull-pause retrieve.  Fish on!  The first fish, a small large mouth around 16", came bluff rock point in eight feet of water.  The second fish came in eight or ten feet of water off a rip-rap point near a channel.