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4/21/14

4/21/2014

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I started out just as the sky was barely getting light. I started marking a few scattered fish around Hales Ford Bridge, more that I've seen lately but still not enough to fish for. I poked around here and there on my way up lake. It was getting light when I started trolling as I was approaching R37. I was marking fish but they looked like small marks. Sure enough, in 5 minutes I got the first fish, an 18" right near R37. Only 5 minutes later I got the second fish, another 18". No big marks were showing up. No surface activity either.
I made one pass around inside Indian Creek and then headed out. Still only marking an occasional small fish. I worked my way up to Grimes, in and out Grimes, and kept going. I got up to Harbor Ridge, looked around and kept going a little farther. I crossed over and started back down lake zig-zagging from points to the channel and back. Nothing. So I pulled up and cruised back to Indian Creek. I trolled the R37 bank and started seeing good marks and good loose groups of fish. I trolled them, jigged on them, and cast to them but couldn't get a bite. Rats

.So I trolled down to R34 and around that bend but saw very little. I cruised down to the R31 area and found nothing. So then I headed back to Hales Ford Bridge and trolled down to Coast Guard point and the adjacent creek. Still nothing. For such a nice day, fishing sucked. Later Joel
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