Moswimb8slinger

Thanks everyone, i haven't entered any tournaments yet, but I've convinced a buddy who fishes the FLW tour to try swimbaits out after he gets a limit to get some bigger kicker fish

Here's some of the Strike King King Kong fish, includes a 22inch smallie, 19.5 kentucky, missed several green bass (either LM or K's) over 5lbs

here's the S-waver bass from 1/12, had some followers yesterday but no takers. The biggest one last weekend went 21.25 inches and just over 4lbs (skinny fish) and the others were just over 3lbs.

had to use the laptop to attach these pics

Cheapest way is Ebay, 18 for the 4in shad (bass pro shop jacks the price up to 30 each), and 20-25 for a 6inch Jr. There is an 8inch version(35 dollars) but i haven't bought one to use on TRL yet...

One key element to fishing the larger "Jr" and even the 4in shad, right now is fishing them slow, almost irritating slow. They'll swim will very little input. Check out bill's YouTube channel" theBBZtv" for techniques. The one video, titled "my first swimbait fish" where he teaches a guy to fish the BBZ1 Jr. on Lake Lanier, GA. I learn alot from that one

The slow sink 1/2 ft per second and fast sink falls 2ft per second. Somewhere's about that. Its listed on their website. Here's. A couple of Kentucky's on a shad floater

Yes, the black bass love the lavender and natural shad colors. I even caught a 5lbs LM on a trout colored BBZ1 Jr. Slow sink (6inch). And got a 3.25lbs LM on a BBZ1 Jr lavender shad floater last monday.... Yes they work on the Rock...

Has anyone had any luck with 6 inch plus baits on TRL? Since late October, I've been catching 3-5 lbs SM, LM and spots on Strike King "King Kong"(6") in gizzard shad, Spro BBZ1 jr.(6") In rainbow trout(slow sink) and lavender shad(floater) and the River2Sea S-waver168 (6 3/4") in "party crasher" kind of a shad color, every week. I'll post pics later from my laptop

We found crappie under docks back in Long creek today. They were suspended about 15-20ft in 40ft. Water was 38 degrees there

Yeah... the street name is "Scenic"

if you go exploring, the second entrance has open the last couple of times I went down there the last 2 weeks with the regular gate locked. turn off scenic rd off 76, then right down Brook/Baker, you'll find the turn off when the road makes a 90 degree left, and the entrance is on the right.

sorry for the long absence, I was fishing up from the creek along the rocks there. my friend was standing on the concrete steps when he caught the walleye

yesterday, started out at powersite on the river run side in my kayak. fished the generator side for about 40min until they stop generating...nothing, fished around the rock pile and found no takers. packed up and ran down to slough hollow, found a lot of small pods of shad mainly downstream from the 'tubes'. caught 8 short and one keeper bass (released that one too) on a black/white shad pattern 3" no name jerkbait and a flash mob with Indiana blades instead of the standard willows with 2.5" pearl paddle tail minnows. about dark I went back to powersite on the empire side, no generation or water over the top, didn't stay long, tossed a couple of different jerkbaits. and nothing and decided to call it a night...

went to the empire side of powersite Wednesday 6pm-930pm, water coming over the dam, full moon with cloud cover. started out dragging a Gulp! minnow and got a 17in white, then I stood at the end of the fence and started casting a blue and pearl Yosuri jerkbait downstream with a jerk-jerk- reel-jerk tempo and got a 4.5 lbs walleye on the 3rd cast and then caught an 18 and a 18.5 walleyes in the same area. I got the smaller ones almost casting against the concrete and the big one came from a little further out, but the water there probably is barely 3-4 ft deep. tried it out again Thursday night, water again coming over the dam, I was only there an hour just after dark but only managed to get a short LM and a short walleye, both on a shad colored Swim'N'Image. going tomorrow, I hope the cloud cover sticks around

i was in my kayak around the state park marina early Friday morning, caught several on a white double willow spinnerbait along the bank and then switch to dragging a PB&J colored jig and craw over the rocks near the fuel island and caught several more, tried topwater but they would just swipe at it. in total, caught 15 mixed bass , lm, sm and spots. 6 keepers all others short. Saturday morning, almost skunked if it were not for a 11'' dink LMB, hopefully the stable weather has got them biting again tomorrow

was down at the Tubes thursday, didn't see any whites but saw some walleyes (spotlighted after dark with a flashlight)

i've gone a long time without a post, but here's what i've been up to the last 2 weeks Feb.27-28 lm bass were good on spinnerbaits and a-rigs, most under limit size, my buddy caught a 4.25lbs walleye after picking a nest out of his reel then lifting his spinnerbait off the bottom. this was near shadow rock park, spinnerbaits mainly white/silver with willow blades, the a-rig had 3" paddletail minnows on it. dam was generating some, maybe 1.5-2' water visibility Mar 6-7 same area was slow with no water flow, good wind though, caught a couple of lm bass, a guy fishing a brushpile under the 76 bridge got a couple of crappie on a 2'' white tube. got bored and wandered down to slough hollow. found some nice lm bass (up to 4.5lbs) at the "tubes" and had a small walleye follow my spinnerbait...just before dark. i had my work light with me,with the water being crystal clear in the shallower areas. after dark i walked downstream and started spot lighting walleyes, saw around 25-30 mostly in the 12-17'' range with a couple 18+... kinda neat to get an opportunity to do something like that

we were at shadow rock, thursdays, lm bass were biting really good on spinnerbaits, my buddy got a backlash, bait fell to the bottom, he fixed the nest, and lifted the spinnerbait up off the bottom and a 4.2lbs walleye took it, and lucky he got it in. they had 1 or 2 gens running at powersite and this happened about 12;30- 1;00pm with bluebird skies if your not catching them, how you know that they're not there? experiment once in a while...

my lil brother and i was on the river run side of powersite, sunday night, and he caught one 13" long on the bottom/ water running/ with a inflated nightcrawler, about 6-10" lead from sinker to hook. I'm talking with my uncle in Ohio to get some more tips on catching the yellow perch

honestly we could say the same about the trollers who always talk about bottom bouncing spinning worm harnesses... but we dont complain, we could but we dont. So when an A-rig is mentioned, please keep complaints to yourself. the matter of the fact is that the A-rig, has in fact become another component of our fishing aresenal that can be used for a variety of species of fish, just like jerkbaits, spinnerbaits, crankbaits, jigs, plastics, topwaters, swimbaits...etc

Thanks for the report Wayne when i go to powersite, i usually drift the current that goes over the rockpile. It usually comes over the dam and makes a 45 degree turn towards the forsyth side, so i'll row closest to the generator side, drift down and cast over the rockpile with a crankbait, thats how i filled my limits of white bass in the middle of the day last july. i tried that 2 weeks ago, but the gate at the top of the dam were reverse of where they are positioned now, and with 3 different speed currents it was rough and hard to find a good current to drift without getting into a section of emerging currents with 12in high waves. The last 2 times i fished down there last week, it seemed that i'd be able to take the Kayak out there and fish with no problem

that would be nice to know, i'm going in mine tomorrow but i haven't decided where to go yet. bull creek (rockaway boat launch), swan or beaver

i went to school in Pheonix, and I much prefer to live here than south AZ. Welcome and we hope you have a great time here

i launched at shadow rock last week and did really good fishing there away from the crowds, 16"smallie,16" LM, several dinky LM, and 11 whites paddling from swan to the pothole might be a great challenge due to all the water coming over the dam right now, if your wanting to fish the pothole i'd launch at the pothole, there's eddies to ride in, especailly behind the rockpile thats in front of the dam(now 3-4 ft underwater) which makes it a great fish hide out, once the water gets this high alot of newbie boaters don't know that rockpile is there so they hang out in the slack water on the river run side. i had a couple of trips down there last summer in my kayak catching 14-18 in whites off that rockpile, beaver creek, i would concure with wayne and launch at the kissee mills rec area/campground, the lake level is high enough now that it should be pretty flat from there to the mouth into the actual lake, the whites should have moved back up there by now.