Last time I went up to Lake Fulmor it was a very quiet morning. I caught 4 bass and saw only a few people while I was there. This morning was much different.
I arrived at the lake at about 5:45am. I was the first one in the parking lot, but before I got out of my truck 2 other cars pulled in, parked, unloaded, and headed for the lake.
I rigged up two rods and headed for the bank. I fished the bank moving slowly toward the wooden deck for about 2 hours without catching anything. During those 2 hours several more carloads of people showed up. Dads with their kids, families, etc... I figured it was going to be getting more and more difficult to find a place to fish the further in I went.
I made it to the deck at about 8am and was surprised to find only 2 guys on the deck and they were fishing together over on one side. I grabbed the bench and put my stuff down, rigged a power worm on a drop shot and cast it out into the middle of the lake to sit there while I worked a jig on my other rod right around the edge of the deck.
The deck makes a horseshoe shape that extends out over the water so you can actually fish both the inside and the outside of the horseshoe. I started working my jig along the outer edge for little while before moving to the inside. I dropped the jig straight down over the side near the bank and started popping it up and letting it drop as I slowly walked the inside of the horseshoe. I figured "It worked last time I was here. Maybe it'll work again!" And it did.
After getting that first fish back in the water I started working the brush that grows near the bank about 8 feet outside the deck. It looked like a nice place for a bass to hide and I remembered one of those fishing videos where the pro says, "When you're working structure, work every part of it all around." I started pitching that same jig in front and on the side of that brush in several different areas. Within a couple minutes I had my second bass.
I heard one of the men on the deck with me say to other, "He got another one!" I asked if they had had any luck, but they hadn't had a bite all morning. Shortly after that, one of them started pitching his bait in the same area where I had caught the first bass.
People continued to arrive throughout the morning. While I was on that deck a biker guy came over and we talked for a while. I wasn't getting any more bites and the other rod that I had in the water (now rigged with a bobber) had only seen some turtle action, but nothing else.
I left the deck and worked the bank a little ways down with no success, so I figured I'd start working my way back. I fished a couple more spots with no luck. By now the lake was full of people. Families having BBQ's, kids fishing, playing, yelling...and more people were continuing to arrive. By this time I had been there for about 4 1/2 hours. It turned out that the forestry dept had declared today a free day. No Adventure Passes were needed to park and explore the forest areas. And, if I'm not mistaken, no fishing license was necessary either. That could be why it was as crowded as it was.
Whatever the situation, I still managed to have a relatively quiet morning with 2 more bass caught out of Fulmor.
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