Sept 12 Hartwell Striper report

water temp: 79 degrees / sunny / stable pressure

Started at sunrise South of Broyles landing. Fished points and deep water with trees reaching 60-70 foot. Another boat caught a few downlining in middle of channel. We were trolling slowly with downriggers and one flat-line. Ventured to east side of lake and ran across a small school. Fish held tight to 150 foot diameter area and hooked up every time we came around. Lots of bait present in area. Managed five in the boat and lost about the same in trees. Trees topped out at 55-60 foot in 90 foot of water. All came from downriggers. Later ran to where rivers meet and had three or four hits with no hookups. Fish were hitting real lightly today, not the normal slam. Ran South toward dam and fished steep banks in 70 foot of water. Marked a little bait but no fish. Later ran back up river to area we fished this morning and boated one more.

Fish should be schooling more and more as we get into October.

Tip: Constantly adjust downriggers or downlines to stay just ontop of tress. Fish will come out of the trees just far enought to grab a bait.

Keep fishing,

Capt. Frank Askew
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Sept. 8th Lake James Bass Report

water temp 79 – air temp 75 – rain and cloudy w/ sever thunderstorms

Fished points and docks on main channel in the SW portion of the lake. Fishing was slow with full moon. We managed 5 bass all caught on dark blue spinner baits. Fish were relating to docks and cover in 25 foot of water.

Pattern: When nastiest storm rolls in switch to largest spinnerbait in the box and find the edge of large flats adjacent to the main channel. Large deep dwelling bass will slip up under these conditions to feed. The bait needs to be reeled fairly fast just under the turbid waves to create distortion. Darker hues work best in low light conditions. WATCH OUT FOR LIGHTING

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Lake James Sept. 1 Fishing Feport

water temp: 81 / wind: 10-15 kts / 75 degrees

Started around 9:00 am. Tried topwater frog and shakey head in State park area of lake for a short while with no bites. Went walleye fishing and jigged 15 or more small walleye in 45-55 foot of water on the East side of 126 bridge. No real keepes with the biggest being 14 inches or so. Bait was present and all fish came on spoons and blade baits. One fish spit up 2 inch silver minnows so I tried trolling 4 inch Rouges deep to try to coax a bigger fish, no takers.

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