Quick Trip to Big M- day after thanksgiving

Did you see any bass around those shad?

Around some of them yes- on the main lake but not back in the creek.  And not all of them. The Bass seemed to be scattered.  

Bferg - I noticed the same thing except I was out yesterday....a beautiful day for sure but I only caught one smallie on the Ned after trying to grab the bass on the spoon and or a jig....just no love. 

C4F

2 hours ago, Quillback said:

Did you see any bass around those shad?

i see one at 35 ft.

bo

Yeah I saw that lone boomerang.  

I talked to someone that caught a spot on a spoon 65 feet deep a couple of days ago.  

Bo, that is the only fish I saw in the pic's also.  Son and I went out for 3 hrs. TG morning and had 18, all keeps, dragging the big jig deep. 

He was the photographer and from what you see you know how he did.   Only took 2 pictures and no screen shots but he messed that up, 

 Tons of shad in Long Creek but the bass are not relating to them.   Mostly on the bottom Thursday and quite a bit deeper in the 54 ft. range.  We caught some on a Ice jig and spoon also, but they are really liking the same big Pig Sticker jig with the Big Nicholes Craw I was fishing this Fall.

 

Got 7 spots in about 30 minutes on Needle's Eye Point 20 to 30 ft deep.  Purple Ned rig got em good...No keeps, but lots of fun.  Thanks everyone for all the help!

Here is what I am seeing as of this moment by Indian point 

I’ve spoken to Bo about this before....I’m puzzled why I haven’t seen many bigger smallmouth taken out of Table Rock over the last ten years. Has something happened to the fishery in your opinions? You would think a 6 pounder would get weighed in with all of these tournaments all year long. I guess the lake ain’t what it used to be and we are living the new normal? 

1 hour ago, Mitch f said:

I’ve spoken to Bo about this before....I’m puzzled why I haven’t seen many bigger smallmouth taken out of Table Rock over the last ten years. Has something happened to the fishery in your opinions? You would think a 6 pounder would get weighed in with all of these tournaments all year long. I guess the lake ain’t what it used to be and we are living the new normal? 

I think about that myself, only thing I can think of is genetics.  We have those long, muscular smallmouth compared to those fat football smallmouth they have up north where 5-6 lb. fish are more common than down here.  You'd think we'd have longer growing season than those northern lakes that get ice bound every year for months, so you'd think our fish should get bigger, but they don't.

Or maybe there' more groceries in the northern lakes, and those groceries are easier for the fish to catch. so they eat more.  

Wish 6 lbers were more common here, but I get a kick out of catching the ones we have.