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Trip Report
6 Largemouth Bass
55°F Sunny with Light Breeze
57°F Slightly Stained

I feel like the fish at Murray are finally starting to wake up a bit. Started my morning around 6am at the same main point from Baltimore street where I caught that solid 6 pounder last weekend. My game plan was to start a bit deeper off the point since the weather was up a bit the last couple days and suspected they might be out a little deeper...

I feel like the fish at Murray are finally starting to wake up a bit. Started my morning around 6am at the same main point from Baltimore street where I caught that solid 6 pounder last weekend. My game plan was to start a bit deeper off the point since the weather was up a bit the last couple days and suspected they might be out a little deeper. My suspicion was correct, as I hooked a decent 2 pounder on a 6xD crank in about 15 feet of water and only 1 more on the crank afterward. I worked the same point for another 30 mins with various techniques and got 1 more biter on a drop shotted worm and decided to try some other areas. I moved to the next secondary point near the baseball fields, in hopes that maybe these fish have started to move into the coves for the spawn but didn’t have any luck. I moved out to the main point from those same baseball fields with a more shallow diving square bill crank and didn’t have any biter’s but noticed a lot of small shad schools swimming by, so I decided to try a finesse swimbait to match the shad. After tossing a 3inch keitech easy shiner I had 2 bites on fish around a pound and my third was a hefty one, especially on 6 pound test. After about a five minute battle I finally got what looked to me like a solid 7 pounder to the net. It was safe to say that this was another aggressive female that has been gorging on shad and possibly the stocked trout (on account of protruding belly). I feel like this one outweighed my last week’s catch by a pound or two, and I think it’s safe to say that Murray is shaping for a decent spawn bite, but it seems to me that these fish are still are out on the main points and haven’t yet moved into those secondary points or coves yet. Good luck to every getting out this week.

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Trout stocking: 1 week ago
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