Jer wrote:
I was able to make a final trip for the year to visit my brother and fish Lake Jacksonville in central Illinois. The city closes the lake each year to boating and fishing, giving way to duck hunting from blinds at specific locations base on drawings.
We hit the water at first light on Monday. The air temperature was 38° and the wind was WNW @ 6MPH with gusts of 10MPH. TOLERABLE, but our finger tips could feel it. Fished a buzz bait, whopper plopper, medium diving crank bait , lipless crank bait, fluke, chatterbait, and swimbait.
We landed 21 bass, 4 crappies, and 2 bluegills. Water temperature was 58°.
The crank bait accounted for 2 bass, the buzz bait for 1, and the swimbait for 18. The swimbait used was a 2.8” Keitech on a sixteenth ounce weighted, 1/0 hook.
On Tuesday, we were greeted by air temperature of 34°. The water temperature was 59° in the morning and 60.4° in the afternoon. South winds around 5MPH.
We got 16 bass and 2 crappie. 2 on a buzz bait, 1 on a fluke, and all others on the swimbait.
Wednesday was BALMY 😉. Air temperature was 43° and the wind from SSW at 12MPH gusting up to 26MPH.
Luckily, there are many coves to tuck into and the leaves on the trees really made for fisherman comfort. The fish cooperated on the final day and we got 21 bass and 5 crappie.
Again, the swimbait was the big producer at 20 bass. The buzz bait got the other.
I was able to make a final trip for the year to vi... (
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Jer looks like you may the very best of a chilly windy day.