Pacemaker Fishing Forum

I got out early to beat the heat and there was a beautiful red sunrise that my phone did not capture well.

I started with a Whopper Plopper, but got no bites.  I figured they may want something a little more subtle, so I changed up to a chug bug and got a healthy 14+"er that jumped 3 times.

A couple casts later, a long 17.5" smallie slurped down the chug bug.  I ended up with 3 smallies and a LM before moving on up river.



I tried some shallow riffles and rocks by an island and got maybe one or two small fish,  I moved upriver and decided to take advantage of the shade.  It was muddier on the MD side where the shade was, but I managed a few, including a chunky 16"er on a shallow crank.  I caught one more on a chatterbait and then I just slow drifted with the drag chain.  There was a nice breeze that really helped keep the temps manageable.




I was just picking up fish here and there.  One on a spinnerbait, one on an in-line, a few on different cranks and several on a small plastic bait that was a grub-minnow hybrid.  I ended up staying longer as I would run into little patches of fish.  Most were in the 12-14 inch range, but fun.  I ended up with 18 smallies, one catfish and one sunfish.  Off the water by 3pm and was getting hot.  Nice day overall.