Moswimb8slinger

Actually i haven't caught anything this week in coves like that. I threw jerkbait, A-rig with small 3in. paddle tails, big and small S-waver, 4in. spro BBZ1 shad, slow rolled double willow (white blades) white skirted spinnerbait, etc... nothing has proved productive

Had all 3 black bass chewing on them last year with either a brown paca on a pbj football jig or a blue/green paca on a black/blue football jig around chunk rock. I like the way the claws swim when the jig falls. I'd rather use them than a grub tail style trailer.

Wayne hush.lol newbies don't know about that gully

I've used them on and off in the 2 yrs or so, and i don't do to well with black bass on them. But the whites sure do like it. My younger brother had a double where both fish cleared 16 inches. I've sat in my kayak in the mouth of swan creek, and while other guys were winding them as soon as they hit the water, i was letting mine hit the bottom and then starting the retrieve, i ended up catching 3 to another guy's 1 doing that, and had a couple of small doubles (12-13 inches each)

My dad and i used to wade creeks (swan, beaver, roarke, turkey) alot during the summer. I can remember back 20 years ago, him using texas rigged razor worms for smallies and when those got torn up, he'd put them on a 1/16 jig head and continue to throw it near boulders in the deeper holes. Always caught good numbers but no biguns, maybe 3lbs at the most. Last summer i went out with a guide buddy, after throwing topwaters in the morning, we would cover coves with pea gravel and dragged senko's pinched in half with a 1/16 football jigs and caught some keeper smallies in the dam area of TRL. The "Ned" rig is nothing new but it does work, no matter whose name is on it

I went to the state park marina on monday afternoon to try out a new bait and saw about a dozen 1.5" shad on the surface dying/stunned being blown out of the marina and some gulls were there filling their bellies. I touched one with the tip of my rod and it would swim down about 6" and suspend stunned again or float back to the top. I tied on a BBZ1 4"shad floater that i modified with a weighted hook so that it can suspend about 6inches under the surface. I super slow rolled it with a couple of twitches, but didn't get bit. Didn't see any topwater action. It was nice to observe the stunned/dying shad in how they acted and reacted when coming in contact with rocks and sticks.

Bank, the maps are from a Navionics GPS app on my phone. It really helps with finding structure. Its helped finding deep sections, flats and ledges

I was down there last year march, catching bass on spinnerbaits, and my buddy got a birds nest, picked it out and when he reeled up and picked the spinnerbait up off the bottom he hooked and landed one that went 4.25lbs. I'm looking for the bigger girls this year...

Here's the area i fished today, the peg is roughly the stairs i got all 3 bass from...

After another round of snowy weather tomorrow and its supposed to warm up into the 50's by next weekend. That will be very nice not to be wearing 3 layers to stay warm...

No problem, I'm looking for those pesky walleye and thought the last 2 days i would of had a chance with all that cloud cover. Buster says they may not show up there for another week or 2. You can't catch if your not fishing for them.lol

Saturday, i covered empire side of the dam down to the 76 bridge. Powersite was generating for most of the time until 3pm. Mainly deep holes all day dragging Gulp! Minnows on the bottom with no bites, forgot my jerkbait box so i was SOL on those, no takers on the BBZ1 or S-waver swimbaits or the A-rig. Heres some spots i fished Sunday the dam was generating (1or 2), started at the stairs for the old Bull Shoals dock with a RC stick, got 2 keeper LM in 5 casts. Move up stream from there to check out the mud flat with no other bites. Moved back down to the stairs and got another keeper LM on the 2nd cast and missed another( not sure on species, just a flash just out of sight). Then the flow stopped and didn't get anymore bites. Water is pretty clear, maybe 15-20ft visibility. Just casted the RC stick upstream reeled it down and reeled fast enough to keep the slack out and gave it either a single or double twitch every 2 or 3 complete turns of the reel. As

I completely forgot about that one, dang it...

Hit BSL today from powersite to shadow rock looking for the walleye, but no takers. I have been able to find the bass on TRL (from the bank) since the last cold snap 3 weeks ago

Between working for the county and running to Harrison every afternoon, i havent been able to get to the water this week

Thanks for the report. I was swamped with errands Saturday and then ran Amanda to the ER (she's fine) and then was called into work Sunday. And I've been working and running to Harrison every afternoon to check on dad's fish (2000 plus bettas and other exotics) while he's in California til Friday

Found it http://www.wired2fish.com/learn-to-spy-bait-new-bass-fishing-technique-from-japan/

I'll be grabbing a couple(prism shad and ghost shad) to toss this year, something different the fish haven't seen. Old plug, if you go look at these baits on TW, they are actually the cheapest ones.lol i just read an article of a guy using these on TRL 'll have to find it and share the link

I have a couple of BBZ1's. I'm just making sure i made a good recommendation for Oldplug. I have a 6in banshee, it sinks too fast, like 1.5-2ft per second so I'm not using it right now in this cold water. But the banshee has potential

Let me know what you think about that BBZ1 after you give it a try out on the water

Do you have any 20 or 25 sunline Flourocarbon?

I've always had issues with flouro and the knots literally exploding ( no line/knot left on lure eye) when tied (yes it was lubricated) or freeing a stuck lure, where mono would hold up. I've tried the improved clinch, Palomar, the rapala loop knot, and the trilene knot. I tested them all this afternoon with a digit scale and all knots "exploded" at 10lbs on 20lbs test vanish. I looked up a knot on an app on my phone and found the "world exhibition" knot or gary martin knot, actually a pretty simple knot but hard to describe, see picture. This knot as tested, broke above 15lbs according to the scale and the knot was left intact on the lure eye. I now have a new found confidence in Flourocarbon...

Nice to know, I'll be there. I've wondered what is up with the lake and why it doesn't produce more big browns, say in the 15-20lbs range if not bigger, annually.

Mike long helped design some of the Castiac brand baits, i have a 10" Rock-Hard floater in golden shiner, 6" Rock-hard slow sink in blue shad and a 8" Platinum soft plastic floater in rainbow trout.

Pretty much i consider anything that a Largemouth bass can fit in it's mouth a baitfish.lol