Anybody willing to give up some hotspots to a guy who has never fished the Warrior and has a company tournament up there in a couple weeks???

Looking like I ain't ever gonna get to pre-fish up there.

where you gonna' launch?

Howtons(don't know if I spelled that right)

A guy here at work fishes there almost every week. He's been killing them on main lake points throwing top water in mornings and worms the rest of the day. The worm is a dark purple red color by Zoom. He's been catching 20-40 spots per trip.

I grew up fishing Lock 17. Great place to fish. You'd better watch out. The river is up and the water will be full of stuff.

if it's real muddy i'd throw a blade

otherwise a yellow trickworm

or work weed pockets, pitch a lizard, peg the weight, look for bite on the fall,hop it a time or two if no strike, pitch to another

i love Warrior, willy's right watch them lawgs

I'd head up to lost creek and fish the lilly pads. Go in first slough to right (fanny's branch) and fish pads in the backend. Theres a good creek channel coming through the pads. Try spinnerbait,jigs and super flukes.

**** I just gave a way my hawg catchin spot!

If you are launching at Howton's it is hard to beat Prescott Creek just around the upper bend from Howton's. Weeds on left and right side of the creek.

Down river try Friley's or really any of the cuts on the right side that have good weed beds in them.

Chartruese with gold blades will do well. So will lizards and trick worms. If that fails, get out a flipping stick and start pitching jigs or tubes at boathouses and weed mats.

Lost Creek is a long run in the type of water you are going to be dealing with on the Warrior with all of this rain.

Hint: Go after largemouths, spots alone will not win a tournament on the Warrior. If the largeheads are not biting that well then hit the river points and rock walls for the spots.

If your touney allows trolling, troll the main channel with a fire tiger deep running crankbait. I got a friend that catches them all day long doing that. Problem is, most tourneys will not allow trolling. Or beer drinking unfortunately.

Prescott if it is muddy in the river prescott will start to clear first.Go all the way up when you go around the bend go across the slough and work that weed bed.There is a spring that empties into the weed bed there.Then come back and work the bank with all the boat houses.People feed the fish and usually have some nice fish caught along the piers and boathouses.

Thanks yall, maybe I can at least get us on some fish in these spots. I think we are gonna run up there after work next week and try it a few evenings to get tuned up.

If we get in the money I will distribute your commission checks accordingly!

Well?? Where's our money?

Tourney is next weekend. Going to do a little pre-fishing this weekend. Don't wrry, I'll let yall know how rich we get.

Went to pre-fish yerterday afternoon, if we don't do any better next weekend I will have wasted $60

I have heard a lot of good things about Lost Creek but we didn't wanna run that far. Got a couple of bites in Prescott Creek and not a nibble in Friley's. There was some hunting club's tournament going on and traffic was heavy. We have located an decent spot downriver and I hooked a good one there. If he gets back on my line next weekend with a few buddys we will do pretty well.

I'll keep yall posted

Still waiting on my money.......

Patience young Skywalker Still 2 more days til the tournament. Looking like its going to rain.

If I see the fella that fishes there all the time, I'll hit him up for some hot spots. He usually only catches spots in the 2-4lb range.

Just got the low-down on Lock 17. Fish Camp Creek in the AM. Way back in the back with top water. By about 9:AM or so, move out to main lake points at the mouth of creeks (Camp Creek, Yellow Creek, Frilley's Creek, etc). You'll catch the spots on either a carolina or texas rigged worm. Zoom 6" in a reddish color are doing good.

Sounds like our plan was good then, we got a hotspot staked out for the a.m. then red shad and tequila sunrise zoom worms carolina rigged the rest of the day.

I'll let ya know how we do.

Yall better stay out of Camp Creek. There is a mean ol' cuss that hangs out in the back of that creek. Some people say he is plum crazy.

But I ain't. I mean he's not.

Camp is a 25-30 minute run from Howton's down river.

With a weak front moving thru and overcast conditions I may be down there myself.

Knock em dead !!

I guess I better get my map out and see where Camp is. We are probably going to stick with our original game plan because of the weather. If it holds out we may run down there.

Mark, if you see 2 rednecks looking lost in a red Avalanche it will be us, please don't shoot.

Well, we got thumped. 12lbs 3 oz won the thing and we finished 9th. caught 2 in Short Creek on a black/red glitter zoom lizard and 1 on a merthiolate (sp) trick work. Caught another in Hurricane creek right at the mouth on merthiolate and another right back at Howtons before we weighed in on a tomato lizard. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd all had a 7 fish limit and were all 12 lbs some odd ozs. 1st and 2nd caught theirs swimming jigs in the lillies and 3rd caught all of his in the little river on a red shad Berkley worm.

Got a nice tool bag and a new multimmeter for a door prize, and a bad day fishin is better than the best day I ever had workin.

Yall all suck as Warrior River guides BTW

Well you can lead a horse to water, but you can make him do a back flip.....

12 lbs with a 7 fish limit is not a lot of weight. Sounds like the fish really did not want to participate in this tournament.

What was the big fish of the tournament?

Glad to hear that you had a good time on the water. I think I speak collectively for all of the guides here when I say that the quality of guide service provided is not any better than the services provided elsewhere. Unless you have money...heh..heh...heh.

You should have trolled the main channel. What ever happened to plain ole blue or black worms? When I cant spell the color of my worm, I'll quit fishing.

There is no trolling in most tournaments. You have got to catch them honest.

Mark, big fish was 4 1/2 lbs and the guy that caught it had a 7 fish limit and came in 3rd. It was pretty weak over all. Last saturday night when we did a little pre-fishing 11 lbs won the tournament that was going on.

Oh well, enough of the Warrior. Back to familiar territory Friday night. Logan Martin here we come.

Where you going on Logan Martin?

You can always swing by my dad's place. He loves it when people pitch jigs into the side of his aluminum hulled house boat while he's asleep

I did just recently sink (3) Xmas trees and a couple of pallets up there around the dock. Been catching a lot of crappie. Recently started catch some spotted bass on jigs. I need to learn how to fish that lake......

PS: Memorial Day Weekend I saw a lady fishing shiners around Camp Cosby. She was in the process of landing one that was right around 5lbs when we came by.

William, We haven't decided where we will put in yet. I take it your dad's crib is at Pier 59. My paw-in-law used to keep his boat there. Boy we used to hammer some fish right around in there. He got rid of it a few years back when he got leukemia, so I haven't been back in that area a lot.

We will probably put in somewhere around Big Bull, but we have talked about going up to Choccolocco and expanding our horizons. I'll keep you posted later in the week.

This page need to be put in a newspaper.
I'm gonna print it and save these tips for a killer fishin trip.
Thanks guys.

treehanger,

Dad decided he didn't want to rent dock slips anymore so he built his own personal marina. He is right across from Pier 59 on the other side of the road. You can't miss it. He's got (2) house boats there parked side by side.