FLW Tour #2
Lewis Smith Lake, AL
Water Temp: 60
Largemouth/spawn
Spots/pre-spawn

Sorry about the lack of posting. We were staying at a house out on the lake where I was lucky to get cell phone reception. If the wind blew from the west and the planets aligned just right, I would get half a bar on my cell phone and be able to call home. I was supposed to meet Gabe at 6am, but got lost on my way to the launch in the morning. It may have been that I was still asleep as I was trying to find the launch. Whatever the reason, it took me 45 minutes to find the launch. When I got there I didn't see Gabes' truck so I started working on my tackle. Not long after, I hear someone yelling at me from the water. It was Gabe and he was pretty unhappy. I carried my stuff over in a big tangled mess and threw it in the boat. I locked the truck with the remote and we were off. Soon after leaving the boat launch I realized I had forgotten my sun glasses; it was supposed to be cloudy all day so it didn't really matter. Gabe had been out on the lake with a local prior to the cutoff, so he was familiar with the lake. The first point we pull up on Gabe fires his spook out and catches a keeper spotted bass. The size limit on this lake is 15". We fish the area for another 15min without a bite. We move to another area where Gabe breaks out the ugliest looking jig you've ever seen; it's a 3/4oz neon green flipping jig with chartreuse dipped green trailer. He makes long casts out over a brush covered flat with the jig. He sets the hook and brings in 3+ spotted bass. I couldn't believe the spotted bass would eat the jig. Gabe calls it the "Shocker Jig"; it's so ugly it shocks them into biting. We don't catch much else, but while fishing the back of a cove we start finding bass on beds.