Category: Bartlett Lake

Air temperature 45   Water temperature 53      The lake is full and dirty, went across to he other side looking for clearer and warmer water. The backs of coves are where we fished. We tried crank baits and spinner baits for a hour with no luck. We had to slow down and use drop shot and […]

Air temperature 55     Water temperature 53.5  The lake just came up 40 feet and is very dirty. On a day like to this where do you start with all this muddy water. I started fishing at 9.30 a.m. Why did I start this late in the morning. My clients didn’t want to start early because […]

Water temp.  51     Air temp 40     We started main lake at 8.30 am. We fished drop shot, Texas rigs, and jigs till 1 pm.    With no luck.  We took a ride up to the upper part of the lake with the water looking like chocolate milk.  We turned around and […]

Water Temp. 51 degrees        Air Temp. 49 degrees Arrived at the lake at 9 am with Robin and Josh (age 8).  We fished all the way to the yellow cliffs.  Fishing was a bit slow after a big tournament last Saturday.  We only caught 5 total bass on drop shot using (morning […]

Air temp. 39. Water temp. 50    Bartlett treated us pretty good today. We tried a lot of different worms a long with hula grubs and brush hogs today. Green pumpkin hula grubs, and 301 grubs were the best for jigs. Drop shot with watermelon, oxblood, and green pumpkin zoom trick worms worked also. The depth […]

Our fishing trip at Bartlett started at 6:15 am.  The air temp was 65 degrees with water temperature 81 degrees.  We started on the main lake using small chatter baits (white) and flick shake (morning dawn).  Bob stayed with these baits and caught fish all day long.  I switched to Carolina rig and drop shot […]