I woke up Sunday morning around 7 a.m. and man was it cold. I had to thaw out my dog Macy's water bowl.  She was like "uhh Dude give me some of that hot coffee".  Anyhow I milled about the house all morning, cleaned the garageand did a few things I had been ignoring.  Around noon I decided to go fish. By then it had warmed to a balmy 43 degrees with a stiff breeze out of the north, wind chill 39 dgrees and dark cloudy skies. Crazy you think? YA I thought so too.   I wanted to head out to my favorite smallie hole on J. Percy Priest but I knew the spot would be wind blown.  I decided to head to more protected areas from the wind.  The water temps were right at 53 degrees and visibility was about 14" or so. I tied on a orange rattle trap and started casting shallow to deep. Nothing! I changed over to one of my favorite jigs, the Snootie Jig in black.  Itied on a 3/16 oz and quickly had a few dinks off a point that was wind protected on one side and very windy on the other side. I noticed on the slack water side that the wind had created a good current.  I tied on a 3/8 oz Snootie Jig with a Zoom Small chunk trailer. Was that the ticket! They would just pound the heck out of that jig.  No love taps, no nibbles, just a hard whack and off they would run to deeper water.  Most of the time I would get bit in about 5ft of water. They trick to it was to drag the jig with the current and try to hit a rock, stump or whatever was on the bottom. When it did hit it, I let it stop for a few seconds and then quickly pop it hard off the cover and on the way back down they would whack it hard.  This even worked on a tube and rattle trap. You had to hit some cover with your lure before you got bit.  I started around 1pm and finished around 3:30.  I caught a total of 16 bass with 3 of them meauring 16" to 17".    I don't think that is too bad for a cold November day. 

I have some time off this week, Thursday thru Sunday and plan to fish Thursday, Friday and Saturday. 

Tight Lines
Billy Harris
www.billyharrisbasspro.com