Bob Smith
bob@bassinbobs.com
"FRED'S LOCAL RIVER REPORTS"
PERDIDO RIVER
2/11/01
Water Temperature: 53-56
Water Clarity: Clear
Well, Kevin Friend and myself hit Perdido this morning at about
8:30am and fished until 11:30am. Sky was sunny then turned cloudy, wind was light from the south, water was clear and ranged from 53 - 56 degrees. The tide was low and still falling.
Hit a few places fairly close to the ramp. At the mouth of Indian
Cutoff I had 3 bites which I missed and hung something heavy (most likely a redfish or mudfish) that broke off.
We fished for a few more hours without a bite. I tried a
spinnerbait, worm, and buzzbait - all with the same results.
The only bites I had were on a black Baby Eel.
At 11:30, after 3 hours of casting practice we pulled the boat
out and headed off to Escambia River.
4/15/00
Water Temperature: 60-70
Water Clarity: Clear to Stain
After a long time away from Perdido I ventured out for a Three-Rivers tournament.Skies were mostly cloudy with a fair wind from the south. Tide was falling then slack, water temp high 60's low 70's. My partner and I scraped for most of the day and managed to bring a single keeper bass to the boat. Not a good day by a long shot! The one fish - a 3.60lb bass - took a buzzbait early in the morning. While we have some bites on worms, we didn't manage any keepers. I lost a keeper when the hook pulled out, but it was just a keeper and not a large fish so it really wouldn't have helped a lot. After trying everything imaginable and boating 1 bass, 1 gar and a flounder, we called it a day and went home, after weighing our single fish,with our tails between our legs. But, I guess thats why its fishing and not catching. No excuses, just a real bad day.
10/9/99
Water Temperature: 85
Water Clarity: Clear to Stain
With a stiff wind from the south pushing the water up quite a bit, and the ever-present threat of rain, 30 boats left Hurst Hammock for the final 3-Rivers tournament
(not counting the classic) of the 1999 season.
My partner, Tony Kolarick, of Crestview, and I fished hard all day - up river and down - with just a few small non-keepers from safe light unitl 2:30pm. Heavy rain soaked us, but we kept plugging away all day long.
Finally we found fish. Just five minutes from the ramp, with an hour until weigh in, I pulled our first keeper into the boat.
In the next hour we caught several non keepers and 3 more good bass from a fifty yard stretch.
All bass ate red shad or black Baby Eels fished Texas rigged in 3-10 foot of water. Sky was mostly cloudy with scattered rain showers. Water temp near 80 (didn't fish from my boat so I can only guess) and ranged from clear to moderate stain. Tide stage unknown, water was high.
At weigh-in our four bass weighed 6.75lbs with our biggest fish being 2.38lbs. First place was just over 10lbs for 7 bass.
7/10/99
Water Temperature: 80-85
Water Clarity: Clear to Stain
Thunderstorms, rain, slightly high water, and a frontal passage were what my partner, Tony Kolarick of Crestview, FL, and I faced today during the 3-Rivers Bass Tournament on Perdido River, FL. The tide was rising, then falling, wind from the south around 5 then north around 10. Water temps ranged from 80 - 85 degrees and conditions from clear to stained.
Skies were overcast, thunderstorms, rain, and mostly cloudy.
Managed to catch 1 keeper on a buzzbait, and several
non-keepers, and the remaining 3 keepers took a black Baby Eel. Our biggest bass weighed 2.57 with a total weight of 5.63 for 4 fish. Not a great catch by any stretch of the imagination, but good enough to land us in 9th place out of 32 boats. Unfortunatly the paying positions only went back 6 places.
There really didn't seem to be much of any pattern. Fish seemed to be holding in 1 - 6 foot of water. Best cover was wood, but we did catch a few off grass. The only constant was that after 8:30am you really had to work hard to get a bite.
7/3/99
Water Temperature: 78-85
Water Clarity: Clear to Light Stain
Got on the water today at 6am and fished until 2pm.
Sky was mostly sunny, clouding up a bit late. Wind from the south at around 15mph. Tide rising all day, water clear to very light stain and 78 - 85 degrees.
Started fishing along steep banks in 14 - 20 foot of water.
Bass were staying right up on the cover. Caught 5 nice keepers in the first half hour on a chart/white spinnerbait. Also caught a pair on a buzzbait along these same banks.
Had quite a few missed strikes also.
Around 9am the bite went away and fishing became very hard. Between 9 and noon I boated 5 short fish on a Baby Eel.
The around noon they started biting the Baby Eel pretty good again. From noon until 2 I managed another 2 keepers and around 10 short bass.
Total for the day was around 25 or so. Mostly short, but a fair number of keepers (wouldn't have to measure in a tournament). Prefered cover was wood as long as it was right on the bank. Trees hanging off the bank were not very good.
Stumps seemed best.
4/28/99
Water Temperature: 61-68
Water Clarity: Clear
The Perdido is still producing some decent stringers down in
the grass near wood cover. Small spinnerbaits (white) and some topwater action. Up in the river Junebug worms are finding a few fish with an occasional big fish coming on crankbaits.
2/6/99
Water Temperature: 59-61
Water Clarity: Stained
Fished small scrub tournament in club with three boats and six fishermen. Weather was clear with wind 3-5 mph out of the south-southeast. Pickins were slim to none.
I picked up a 2 lb Spec on the main river with a red shad worm. We ran into the back of 11 Mile Creek about 10 oclock and I picked up a 2 lb Bass sitting under a log with the same bait. Only fished untill 1 pm and none of the other guys had anything when they came in. I planted a Jimmy Houston smack on that $40 fish.
First time I have ever won in the club.