Fishing Report: Walnut Creek 20070829

[Bassthumb]

Got on water at 5:45pm
Aqua TEMP ~78°
Air temp was 74° start, 66° at trailering
Wind: Calm to 5 mph from north
Water level up about 6", color a nice shade of green, clarity about 4"-5"
Clouds:  when I got there, it was nearly overcast, but the clouds were moving quickly to the south.  By the time I got halfway to the dam, it was bluebird!
Mosquitos were fierce at dark!  Just hope they weren't the West Nile type...

Report: Caught one [bass] on a junebug finesse worm near the west corner of the dam. 

I tried every color of plastic I had on the boat, in numerous different presentations (shaky, Texas-rig, Carolina rig, curly tail, trick, senko, Gulp, and Zoom) and produced no other fish.  I had bites, but no hook-ups.  I also threw various CBs, and even threw two types of frogs (after dusk) and a buzzbait, and still got no hits, runs or errors.  Even though the fish weren't biting, it was still better than mowing! 

general opinion of WC:  Heavily pressured (from the bank) and the fish have pulled off the normal spots.  We have had 2 previous nights of TSTMs and high pressure moving in, with today (8/30) being the peak high pressure.  Things will return to normal, by Sat.

[coldfront]

Nice report...sounds like the skeeters are trying to make up for lost time...

Been having very good success at 'the Nut' but have pullled off the banks and have been tossing jig/chunk to standing timber along the creek channel in about 6-10 foot of water...bigger, thicker fish have been the result.

Have not been out there for over two weeks, however, so with this recent shift in water temps, thinking fish might be starting the fall move...have seen reports from lakes down in ozarks that suggest some early movement by shad up the coves...