Location: Bent Pine Pocket and Cowford - Wheeler Lake - Alabama

Time: Lunch to Mid Afternoon
Air Temperature: 80-82 degrees
Water Temperature:
Lake Level: 555.7- nice level for the area
Weather Conditions: Bad Windy. 8 - 15+ mph South.

Jessica and I set out from our home ramp. Extremely windy. Intended to go to swan creek, but couldn't with the wind and had to head back. Went into Bent Pine Pocket to escape wind. Caught some shad for catfish bait with the casting net.

Threw back excess shad and immediately noticed whit bass hitting to water shad we threw back. Started Jessica casting a Bobby Garland Money Milk and immediately caught fish. 5-7 white bass very quickly, almost every cast. Also caught 1 large mouth. Jessica was on fire!

Later moved to the swan creek area when the wind calmed, but it was too shallow.

Instead, we set up over a deep hole out from Cowford for catfish in 14-20' of water. We anchored, cast, and tightlined over the edge of the hole. Caught one beautiful flathead, 1 blue cat, and one 15-1/2" largemouth bass. Fun day for sure.

 

Location: 2nd Creek - Wheeler Lake - Alabama

Time: Morning - Mid Afternoon
Air Temperature: 54 - 84 degrees
Water Temperature:
Lake Level: 555.8'
Weather Conditions: 3 - 9 MPH South - South East Wind. Very Nice Day. Ended up hot.

Took day off (Good Friday) and fished with Doug and Douglas Ainsworth. Started on brush piles by marking and anchoring and casting jigs. Very slow. Caught 1 white bass.

Moved on and caught shad with the casting net and decided to switch over to catfish. Fished 10 jugs for 1.5 hours south of bridge on flats, but didn't catch anything.

Set up below bluff in channel and anchored. Fished for catfish by casting and tight lining on bottom. Caught 1 nice blue cat in 30-35' of water. Overall, very slow day.

Location: Elk River, Joe Wheeler, 2nd Creek - Wheeler Lake - Alabama

Time: Morning - Mid Afternoon
Air Temperature: 49 - 84 degrees
Water Temperature:
Lake Level: 555.77'
Weather Conditions: 1 - 6 MPH South - South East Wind

Took vacation from work to fish. Scouted new water. Started at Elk River. Fished bridge - slow fishing. Was fishing in 12-25' of water. Caught 1 white bass under bridge casting a money milk jig.


No good bays on lower Elk, so rode to Joe Wheeler - 1st Creek area. Fished westward bay inside mouth of Joe Wheeler on drop offs and flats 12-17' of water. Spider rigged and picked up 1 crappie. Moved to back of Joe Wheeler in big bay and spider rigged with no lock.


Moved to 2nd Creek and fished normal brush piles and drop-offs. Picked up a couple spider rigging. Fished bridge bumping bottom. Picked up 1 white bass and 3 channel catfish.


Returned back to Elk and fished bridge with no luck. Ended up keeping 2-3 crappie and 1-2 white bass. Fish cleaned were still with eggs, though I feel most of spawn is over.

 

Location: 2nd Creek - Wheeler Lake - Alabama

Time: Morning - Mid Afternoon
Air Temperature: 55 - 82 degrees
Water Temperature:
Lake Level: 555.77'
Weather Conditions: 4 - 10 MPH East - North East Wind. Cool morning. Very Nice Day

Took vacation from work to fish. Concentrated on previously marked brush piles and drop offs. Caught a couple, but markedly slower that 4/18/17. Picked up a couple trolling. Slow morning. I believe I missed most of the spawn. Not much luck under bridge early. Worked small pocket next to road south of bridge with Bobby Garland Money Milk and picked up 2-3 nice bluegill by casting. Worked a lot of bays, shoreline, shallows, tree tops - Not much luck at all. Returned to brush and drop off and picked up a couple more. Jigs, spider rigging much more effective than minnows. Caught 2-3 undersized crappie. Size noticeably smaller than previous trips. Ended day with 5-6 crappie and 2 nice bluegill. Also caught a smallmouth near the road.


Fish cleaned still had some eggs, however, I feel most of the spawn is over.

 

 

Location: 2nd Creek - Wheeler Lake - Alabama

Time: Morning - Mid Afternoon
Air Temperature: 36 - 72 degrees
Water Temperature:
Lake Level: 555.65'
Weather Conditions: 3 - 8 MPH South East Wind. Cool morning.

Perfect Day! Fished almost solely around 2nd creek bay, drop off, and bridge. Had luck with every technique. Marked brush piles in westward bay and bay mouth drop off. First day spider-rigging. Fished both jigs and minnows with jigs extremely out performing minnows. Biting all colors, but good luck on /Bobby Garland Money Milk and orange with glitter. Brush piles paid off the best. Even caught some on casting jigs over piles. Trolled brush mainly but also bounced bottom under bridge with some luck. Kept 8 crappie, 6 bluegill, 2 yellow bass, and 1 white bass. Seems to be pre-spawn pattern with spawn coming on very soon.