Fished the 2nd tournament qualifier and all I can say is Grind baby grind!!! The fish are in spawn mode with one thing in mind and it is not eating! Some how I scraped up a limit worth 10.28 lbs and finished with an 8 the place check. Junk fished with a black/blue jig- 1 keeper, 3 keepers on red Rock crawler, 1 on a homemade 3/4 oz blade with big double willow leafs. Covered 1 mile up Kings river all the way back to Baxter. Did catch a handful of shorts through the day. Wt: 58 in the clear water-61 in the colored water. Good luck to all!!!
Took the family on an outing for a couple hours after church this evening. Spinner bait caught 4 spots, red wart caught the big one, my better half had bragging rights today. Bananas in a boat brings me luck. Life doesn't get any better, hope everyone has great week. Wt 55-55.6.
Fished a club Derby today, caught several keepers and several shorts. Weighed just under 12lbs. However, if someone comes across a 3.5lber with a red Rock crawler in it's mouth it belongs to me! It tried to throw it by jumping 4 times. Had a good time if it wasn't for the rock snot. Wt 52.5-54.5.
I will add if you go down a bank a certain way and catch a few or feel that there are more there, if conditions allow turn around the other way and often time it will yield some more bites.
Mud attracts shad also, I would believe it has some kind of algae on it that brings in the shad no matter if it's warm or cold. I would also add where mud is there is runnoff, current that congregates the mud. Just my opinion about mud.
Mr. McStick has a solid looking bag in the box according to the photos. Only bone I have to pick about the coverage is that the blog hasn't had much updates and the photos are not taking pictures of the other leaders. I understand taking photos of McClellend or other top pro's but there needs to be a bit more coverage unless they don't have a full staff running around lake. It isn't that hard for the media people to casually ask some of the pro's what area of the lake are you fishing so they can get some coverage of them or swing by an ask how their day is going.
Thanks guys for the compliments, this forum is to help fellow anglers be successful on one the greatest/challenging lakes in the country. My finish is a compliment of all the anglers who post information on this forum so we all can experience some success. Thanks to all. We will see how the next one goes.