ORR LAKE |
| Orr Lake August 7 2008 Arrived at the ramp at 6:00pm for some evening Smallmouth action before the storm that was brewing in the North hit the area. Started fishing a 3/8oz white spinnerbait with a red trailer hook and white grub through the reeds in 2-4 feet of water to entice some viscous Smallies. An hour goes by, no such luck, I then ventured out into a little deeper water roughly 3-7 feet, throwing a 1/8oz Green Tube along a weed bed, after fishing through 30 minutes of light to heavy rain, not a sniff. I finally gave up on the smallies after an hour and a half of cold windy rain and no hits. The rain and wind completely stopped at about 7:30pm, I moved into some thicker reeds to flip a black worm rigged Texas style, with 14lb braided line to try for some Largemouth. Within 10 minutes of fishing in the reeds, I felt a slight tick at the end of my line. I was not sure if it was a hit or just a tap against the reeds, so I set the hook anyway because you never know and bang! a 3lb decent Largemouth. After 20 more minutes, bang! another one... but I had a knot in my line that I was too lazy to re-tie and it snapped the line, I lost the fish and my rig. I followed up with the same white spinnerbait as I was throwing earlier, I threw 2 casts and noticed on the 2nd retrieve that it caught my line that had snapped laying on top of the water. I managed my way to the line, picked it up and felt weight on the end, I hand reeled about 10 feet of line and there sat a 2lb Largemouth still hooked up. The thunder and lightning came not 2 minutes later, I was off the water as fast as that first thunder finished rolling...... Stay safe to fish another day. Brian Moore |
JUNE 28, 2008. This is the second year that we have had a fun tournament on Orr Lake on opening day. The fishing usually is the best of the year in the first couple of weeks of the season and then tapers off and even gets worse in the fall. This year opening day started off with rain and wind, both of which the smallies on Orr Lake dislike. Since Jo Ann is a fair weather fisher, she stayed at the house at 7:30 and told me to pick her up when it stopped raining. I started over a weed bed in 5' or so of water and caught one about 21/2 lb in a few minutes but couldn't get any more. I ran to a few shallow spots with no luck and then tryed for largemouth. Only one , about 13" by 10 and since the rain had stopped called Jo Ann and picked her up at the dock. Since the fish were not co-operating shallow we went deep (for Orr lake that means 6 or 7 ft). With the sky tuning bright and a couple of stay beams of sun, the fish got very active. We caught about 10 fish over the next 2 hours, about half on a fluke{baby bass)and Jo Ann got her's on a trick worm(bubble gum) The smallest smallie we caught was probably 16" and the largest about 19". They were long and lean and our total weight for 5 was 16 lb even. See the brag Board for the other weights and pictures. |