Cedar Creek Reservoir
Time: 7:15 AM - 4:00 PM
Air Temperature: 48 - 68F degrees during trip
Water Temperature:
Lake Level: 579.67
Weather Conditions: Mostly Sunny, windy, cool. Winds sustained North 10-14 mph
After my awesome trip a couple weeks ago, I got up with Kevin and we headed back to see how we could do. We had a massive cool front move through the night before and winds were picking up and temps were headed down into the low 40s for nightly lows. We weren't sure how we'd do with this sudden change in weather, but thought we'd give it a try.
The wind was definitely a challenge. We started the morning fishing east of Britton Bridge around the powerlines before the wind got up. We knew we'd be most exposed to the wind here, so wanted to get it fished early. We fished jigs tipped with tuffies in 12-14 FOW and had good luck immediately.
We moved around mid day and did some scouting around Slickrock and found a new spot that produced some of the best fish of the day. As we were leaving there, we found a school of crappie bunched up and not relating to structure. We chased them around with the trolling motor for a few minutes and pulled 3 out of there.
We moved out on the west side of the lake and fished the north shore as the wind got up. We caught a few crappie, but all were small. We did pull out 5-6 nice bass from this area.
We refished our morning areas after lunch, but the action had turned off. The wind really made jigging structure tough and we stayed snagged, but I felt we did pretty good considering conditions. Finished the day with 17 keepers and probably about as many throwbacks. Looking forward to the next trip!
