I fished on both the Stick Marsh and Headwaters this past week. These two lakes that are very close neighbors are so different in many ways.

I’ll start on my Stick Marsh visit first. Its waters are dark and tannic. It looks like the eel grass has died off somewhat on the south end of the farm from last year’s outings. To my surprise, I did see one very small clump of green hydrilla though. The north wind laid down enough to fish on the south end this day but only for a little while. A Wacky Rig presentation was the only way I could get a bite. When I returned back to the ramp there were only 3 rigs in the parking lot.

My next time out a couple of days later was at the Headwaters lake. I’ve come to the conclusion that from my last few outings there the only way to catch numbers of fish is to spend 27 dollars a dozen for Wild Shiners. These fish don’t care if it is alive or dead. Maybe one day I’ll have to save up my money to do so. We fished on the north end of the lake this day. Both the east and west sides have a bloom in the water even though there is plenty of hydrilla to cleanse it. We only managed 3 fish for our outing. For a side note when we were launching our boat there were two men fishing off the dock. Both were free lining shiners and were doubling up catches of bass out in the middle of the basin. They caught 5 bass in less than 10 minutes as we idled away in High Hopes of the same. Not the case for us as we came back discouraged. Water temperatures started in the middle 70’s on both lakes so the transition is definitely happening for fish movements.