hunter_3780

Found them in long creek Sunday around the state line blowing up on shad balls. Bass fished most of the afternoon and ended up lucking into some surfacing on the way back to the ramp.

This is one I have seen comes in several colors.

I saw a couple new jigs today and was wondering if anyone had tryed them they are basically a skirted ned. Can get them in 16th and 8th ounce.

You could have left those dinks in the water if you had just remembered your jersey. You know that's what it takes to get the big bite. Lol

Oh and both keepers came on a a long runout point on a black single spin about 9:30 just a few casts apart.

Thanks for all the replays guys. We ended up with 2 keepers for a total of 3.87 I believe. We were 4 100ths shy of big brownie with a 2.16. We had our chances. I broke of 1 keeper before dark on a 3/16th shakey head on a bluff bank and had another one come off just a few casts later. My step grandpa also lost 3 good fish. Had a blast and learned alot hope to do it again soon. Once again thank you for all your help.

What type of banks should we try to spend most of our time on? Bluff banks, chunk rock banks, gravel banks? Any thing else I should keep in mind. You guys are getting me excited and giving me a little false hope. Lol

Thanks for the advise. Any advise in what to do before dark other than avoid the tuber crowd?

Hey guys I have had my arm twisted into fishing a small club bass tournament this Saturday from 5pm till 1 am. We are launching out of moonshine beach and I have never been on that part of the lake. Normally when I bass fish I stick to the long creek arm since its close to home and I have a small bass tracker boat with a 50 horse that doesn't like all the boat traffic at all. mainly I fish way up the creeks to get away from everyone. Looking at this on the map i can tell this is really big water and not at all what I'm used to. Do you think you could spare a few pointers for me on what kind of tackle to try and what kind of banks to fish. I'm not one to eat bass that's what the flatheads and big bluegill are for but if you don't feel comfortable giving me pointers on the main forum private message me so that I can pick your brain. I am just in this to have a good time and I don't think fishing for 8 hours without a bite is classified as having a good time especially in this heat.

This is how I do it as well. Just pull up your rock stretch back tight and re sink your rock. Make sure your rock is under water before releasing it or it will snap and nock off some of your baits.

I fished up long creek yesterday afternoon. And found the same as you on crappie. Fished from 2-5:30 with a limit of crappie and 4 big whites. Caught all the whites up yokum. Most of my keeper crappie came from up yokum as well. You can catch short crappie any where you want right now. It is a chore though to weed through all the shorts to catch 10 inch fish or bigger i did have a 15 inch crappie yesterday. It was my new pb.

Thank you my wife and I think she is a keeper. lol

Yeah what females i have filleted look to still be a ways out from laying. Most if the fish I'm catching are males although some big ones. I had a 15 inch male on Sunday.