Kevin VanDam

Low Water, Scattered Fish Dominate Clarks Hill Chatter

April 30, 2008
(bassfan.com, April 30, 2008)

After a two-stop tear through Texas the Bassmaster Elite Series sets up camp this week on the Georgia-South Carolina border with its sights set on Clarks Hill. This visit marks the fourth consecutive year BASS’s best have come to ‘The Hill’, and it seems like every year the lake fishes differently than the last.

In 2005 the circuit showed up in March and the lake’s largemouth population was largely in the pre-spawn mode waiting for warmer weather. A year later they timed it just right and caught Clarks’ bass in their traditional post-spawn blueback herring feast.

Last year the Elites showed up in mid-April. The fish were in post-spawn mode, but not far enough removed from their postpartum doldrums to start grouping up for the Clarks Hill herring buffet. BassFans remember Mike McClelland won that event by tossing a jig in water less than 4-feet deep

Give credit to BASS for trying to hit Clarks Hill at just the right time. This event kicks off 2 weeks later than last year’s derby here, and if this were 2007 the bass would probably be gorging so hard on bluebacks you could scoop them up in a net. But in spite of BASS’s scheduling efforts, Clarks Hill has thrown yet another curveball to the field.

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