LOGAN MARTIN LAKE
By Reed Montgomery / Reeds Guide Service
Birmingham, Alabama
Website www.fishingalabama.com
"Alabama's Oldest, Professional Guide Service Guiding on All of Alabama's Lakes For Over 40 Years"
Impounded 1964
Lake level: Down 2.63 Feet
Water Temperature: Mornings low 60's / Evenings upper 60's.
Water Clarity: Clear main lake, some creeks stained
Air Temperature: High Saturday 63 / Low 38
Predicted Weather: Sunny, high pressure conditions and colder this weekend. 70 degrees by Wednesday with rain Thursday.
TWO LAKES FOR THE LAST TWO WEEKS - LOGAN MARTIN LAKE AND LAY LAKE - AND SCHOOLING SPOTTED BASS AND LARGEMOUTH BASS!
For the last two weeks I've visited both Logan Martin Lake and Lay Lake three times each, while taking clients of my guide service Reeds Guide Service, fishing for spotted bass, largemouth bass and even some big, very big, and often very unexpected, striped bass! (See pictures and lake reports links on my website www.fishingalabama.com)
Some visitors to these lakes (and other Alabama lakes) were just taking a few days off, like while here for the recent Talladega Races and enjoying the excellent weather in the mid-70's while fishing with me throughout both of these lakes (each lake about 50 miles in length), each lake located within 40 miles of nearby Birmingham, Al.
LOGAN MARTIN LAKE - "Swimming a jig combo" A truly, big bass tactic (normally much better for a weedy impoundment like lower Coosa River reservoir Lay lake), is a very good "crayfish imitating lure technique presentation" right now on Logan Martin Lake. With its very clear waters, both spotted bass and largemouth bass can be fooled!
Try swimming a 3/8 to 1/4 ounce jig combo (colors of black and blue / brown on brown / or in clear water pumpkinseed / with green flakes or at times a shad imitation jig combo, white on white!), this will work just as well on Logan Martin Lake. Swimming a jig combo, (in a lake with little or no weeds) may work better right now for several reasons. -- If in wind or evident current a half ounce jig combo may be needed. --
On Logan Martin lake with the lake's winter water level down (about 2 1/2 feet), and falling, there really are no weeds for these bass to relate to. Wood cover and rock cover, and even slight bottom irregularities, will hold schools of bass. Or at times, this cover can hold one big ol' loner bass that may be dominating a certain stump, laying log, tree, brush pile, pier, or even a small rock pile, usually real close to shallow water of less than 5 feet deep!
* Water temperatures can be 60 degrees in the morning right now. But by evening just recently, it has risen to 70 degrees. That's 10 degrees in one day! So by midday to late evenings, these feeding bass can get much more active in these warmer waters!
Or you and your fishing partner can choose to fish along Logan Martin's now very visible stump-filled flats and creek and main lake drop-offs, around islands, or within openings within wood cover you can drop a jig combo like right down in a stump, within tree limbs, in brush piles etc., also any point with wood and rock cover should be fished hard with a variety of lures, in many ways.
* Note - Dropping your lures in these small wooden openings, is just like dropping them in in those thicker, more matted-type aquatic weeds like seen on Lay lake!
Jig combos can produce big bass that many other anglers often miss. Or you can choose to fish with lures like shad colored spinnerbaits, shad colored shallow-to-deep running crank baits, chrome or shad colored lipless lures, plastic worms, lizards, tube baits or topwater lures like buzz baits, zara spooks, poppers and prop baits.
Experiment!
Logan Martin Lake has loads of schooling bass that can now be fooled on a variety of lures! Although many anglers may just choose to fish the banks for more easier to locate fish, always keep in mind, to have those schoolie lures like jerk baits, swim baits, crank baits, lipless lures and topwaters rigged, ready and just hanging off a rod tip!
For some quick casts and explosive action during these fall and early winter feeding frenzies, for these Logan Martin schooling bass...will be schooling for the next few weeks!
Or you can always call on Reeds Guide Service...first! "Logan Martin's and all of Alabama's oldest, professional - bass fishing only - guide service for over 40 years."
* REEDS GUIDE SERVICE
Can't but one professional, Alabama fishing guide service claim to be "Alabama's oldest." For over 40 years Reed Montgomery, owner of Reeds Guide Service based out of Birmingham, Alabama has taken anglers from all over the globe to fish Alabama's many lakes, offering bass fishing state wide, year round. Targeting largemouth bass, spotted bass, small mouth bass and striped bass. (See: the pictures link on my website www.fishingalabama.com)
Same rates for either one or two anglers with discounts available on two day trips to any Alabama lake. We welcome (with several qualified guides and insured boats), corporate guided trips, family outing fishing trips, parent and child learning trips, lake residents, both the tournament angler and the novice angler, all are welcome!
Call today (205) 663-1504 or E-mail me alabassgyd@aol.com for more info. Or see my website www.fishingalabama.com for my guide service info, seasonal fishing tips and lake reports for all of Alabama's lakes, fishing articles, fishing links, pictures and more!
* WBRC FOX 6 T V "GOOD DAY ALABAMA" - Call in with your fishing questions (205) 741-7474 as Reed Montgomery answers with his, "Ask the Angler" question and answer session. Reed Montgomery (an Alabama native) is on this very popular morning T V show the last Tuesday of each month, he is on just after 8 a.m. Central time.
Reed has been on "Good Day Alabama' now for over 6 years on Birmingham's WBRC Fox 6 Television (seen state wide). Mark your calendar and make plans to tune in to "Good Day Alabama" morning show! Reed's next live appearance will be on Tuesday morning just after 8 a.m. November 29 of 2011!
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Reed Montgomery / Outdoor Writer
Owner / Reeds Guide Service
Alabaster, Alabama (205) 663-1504
E-mail: alabassgyd@aol.com
Website: http://www.fishingalabama.com
" Over 40 Years Guiding, Fishing and Exploring Every Lake in Alabama For Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Spotted Bass and Striped Bass "
Always Call on Reeds Guide Service...first!
Alabama's Oldest Professional, Freshwater Fishing Guide Service!
Last edited by Fishing Report; 10-30-2011 at 07:47 AM.
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