Kandi Lakes Fall Bass League - Lake Andrew

Despite the terrible conditions we had 9 boats show up to fish Lake Andrew on Saturday morning. The day started off misty for a couple hours and then for about the last 3 hours of the day it rained non stop. At least it wasn't too cold to make it really miserable. Even though the conditions weren't great for the anglers they should have been perfect for the fish, but unfortunately they were not very cooperative. Most everyone said the fishing was pretty tough except for the winning team. 1st place weighed 5 fish for just over 15 lbs. 2nd was my dad and myself with just over 12 lbs for 5 and 3rd place had just over 11 lbs. Pretty much the weights to expect on Lake Andrew although usually my dad and I could come up with more than 12 lbs for 5 fish but like i said it was pretty tough out there.

We started fishing our traditional deep weedline areas with jigs and worms but just couldn't get anything going on that. My dad started throwing a spinnerbait up on top of the flat and finally picked up a small keeper. The next couple stops didn't produce anything at all. Our 4th stop was another deep weedline where I threw a jig and my dad threw the spinnerbait. I didn't get any bites but he found another keeper up on top of the flat. It was starting to dawn on us that the fish just weren't out there. Or maybe they were but just not on the bottom so we started running around covering the flats with spinnerbaits and Strike King Red Eye Shads. I keept the boat in 10-12 feet of water and we just cruised around throwing up on top and eventually started putting some fish in the boat. Nothing was huge but we were able to put our limit together after about 3 1/2 hours of fishing. With about an hour to go we went back to one of our weedlines we had check twice already and for whatever reason they wanted the jig this time. My dad put 3 nice keepers in the boat in about 15 minutes including our big fish of the day which weighed in at 3.60 lbs. We stuck around that area the rest of the day but besides that quick flurry we didn't manage to upgrade again in the last 45 minutes.

I'm not sure why the fishin was so tough out there on Saturday. For one thing the lake has just been kind of off all year. It's not a great lake to begin with but you can catch a lot of fish if you do the right thing but this year it just wasn't like that. I also think the turnover was happening as we were fishing. I'm not exactly sure how to tell but it seemed like there were a lot of decaying particles floating around in the water. When the water mixes it stirs up the bottom and I'm pretty sure that's what was happening. Needless to say we all know the turnover isn't a great time to fish but when theres a tournament you just deal with the conditions you have at the time.