Air temp – 46 to 60 degrees

Water temp – 53 degrees

Water clarity – 5 to 7 ft a little stained

Wind speed – 7 to 10 mph SW to W

Today I had the opportunity to go fishing with my RB Bass brother Rob Clarke. We launched from Markley Cove. We got on the water between 6:45 and 7 am. Our first stop wasn’t a long run maybe 5 mins. We started off throwing A rigs around a point and into a belly of a cut with no success. Also tried throwing an underspin, jigs, and crankbaits. No luck with those either so we decided it was time to move.

Venturing out onto the main lake we pulled into a cut that had some timber in the water. We started throwing spinnerbaits. I was throwing a white and chartreuse Dobyns spinnerbait on my Dobyns championship DC 765 CB. My second cast I threw up into about 4 ft of water bringing it thru trees and got slammed by my first fish of the day. It was a largemouth that weighed 1.98 pounds. We kept fishing that area for a little while longer but no more fish to be had.

We made another move into skiers cove. Hitting some points that had rock on them. We were throwing A rigs, jigs, crankbaits and some dropshot still not having any luck. We had marked some fish out deeper but couldn’t get them to bite either. It was now around 1:30 so we headed back into the narrows.