Mattawoman 4/5

[chimo]

Fished out of Slavins from 1400-1800 on the incoming. Less than 6inches of visibility, surface water temp at 55. Fished the barge and surrounding areas with a small jig for crappie and a chatter bait for bass. Landed 1 nice crappie at the barge to avoid the skunk. Carp were starting to jump/spawn and the spatterdock is just starting to come up. I think with some better water quality the bite would have been better.

Chimo

[volboy23]

Good job on not getting skunked! The water temps are decent, just need the weather pattern not to go up and down like a roller coaster for a few days to settle them in to a pattern. The lake I was in saturday had temps at 47.

[chex]

I've been meaning to get out there. Thanks for the report.

I had some luck last year around this time, negotiating a chatterbait deep into the emerging spatterdock, when they wouldn't bite anywhere else. I might have been skunked if I hadn't realized that's where the LMB were hanging out that day.