April17, Big M area

Nice buddy, 

Hope that top water bite gets fired up for ya.

Nice fish QB! Great trifecta!

Good job hitting a few on top. I went out today near dam at daylight. No topwater love. I couldn’t graph a fish let alone catch one. I didn’t graph any bait fish for that matter. Typical spring, up one day, gone three days later. I caught 4 smallies on four different baits in four different locations. 

Baits that worked was grub, tube, spinner bait, keitech. Caught from 8’ to 30’ of water. No pattern just luck. Backs of coves, main lake bluffs, and main lake points. Rough.

Tap, the guides at the dam are still crying the blues.  Most of the gulls are gone, but the fishing is still extremely slow.  I did hear that a few Jaws are starting to show up on gravel.  Best bite by far and not even close as of this morning was still the jerk bait, on any wind, with the bait just sitting motionless.

Most all the moss has gone, but nobody is getting much of a shallow bottom bite.  

Point 9 up the White clear to Quill's country is where the bite is including Baxter and Shell Knob.  If you  want to catch numbers and at times some size, you need to trailer up.

On 4/18/2019 at 9:12 AM, Bill Babler said:

Tap, the guides at the dam are still crying the blues.  Most of the gulls are gone, but the fishing is still extremely slow.  I did hear that a few Jaws are starting to show up on gravel.  Best bite by far and not even close as of this morning was still the jerk bait, on any wind, with the bait just sitting motionless.

Most all the moss has gone, but nobody is getting much of a shallow bottom bite.  

Point 9 up the White clear to Quill's country is where the bite is including Baxter and Shell Knob.  If you  want to catch numbers and at times some size, you need to trailer up.

Thanks. Yeah I’m kind of a homebody, don’t trailer more than a quarter mile to the ramp in Beardsley, but after my last few days I think a trip to Baxter is in order.