Dirtracer35

. I'll take you up on that fishing trip. You're a Pro. Without power poles. I remember that 6-1 smallmouth.

1.) Salty Craw-Plum 2.) Baby Brush Hog-Green Pumpkin 3.) 6" Lizard- Pumpkin & Chartruese 4.) 5" Finesse worm- Green Pumpkin 5.) U-tail worm- Plum

I don't see it as "flawed". I see it as the truth. The bass are spawning. They will have a good spawn. The numbers of bass below legal size are excellent. Stockton is very healthy. So in my lifetime. In the next 20 lifetimes. There will be bass. Without a doubt. Just because one does not catch fish in a spot does not mean they are not there. Only one fish I kept was full of eggs. The 14" crappie. I did not catch the last 6 bass on Stockton lake. "Largemouth bass are the most numerous black bass species in Stockton Lake, especially in the upper portions of the lake. Spotted bass and smallmouth bass are present throughout the lake, but make up larger percentages of the population in the lower portion of the lake. Largemouth angling was excellent last year and will continue to be good. Recent largemouth bass spring electrofishing catch rates have been some of the highest ever observed at Stockton. Additionally, the percentage of sampled largemouth over 12 inches in length have been some of the highest ever observed. These numbers can be attributed to large year classes of largemouth spawned in the high waters of 2008 and 2009."

I think I should just give up fishing. Lol. Maybe.

I catch all 3 on bass tackle. Every year. I keep all 3. The lake won't go dry. The conservation re stocks the lake all the time. Just like brush piles. It's no big deal. Everybody has criticism on some topic in life. I'm 24, I was raised on Stockton lake. I know what the lake hold under the water. I've caught the "big ones" of all species that live there. There will always be more. Always.

They were. They were very good. Cleaning a few bass compared to a few limits of crappie to feed 6 people. It's practically worthless. Like perch. Bass and crappie are both excellent eating.

Just wondering what else y'all would like to complain about. They're both food.

I'm a power fisherman. I find zero interest into down rigging and trolling across numerous spots. I don't tie up to a tree and spend countless hours jigging up and down waiting for a thin lipped crappie to bite. That's just no fun. If it helps you sleep at night. I did release two 14" crappie. And I do catch and release my big bucks every year. I just jump down, ride my 8 seconds and roll off.

Lol. It happens. I figured somebody would say something. But he was nice about it. Everybody's entitled to an opinion. The fish are about to spawn. I'm sure some have. If the Corps will let Stockton hold a little water. It'd be an awesome spawn. There are plenty of fish. Tons are bigger. And nobody seems to care when somebody takes a few walleyes or crappie home. Haha. But thank you. Just a good day. I've caught bigger. I've caught Smallies on Stockton bigger than any of these.

Sorry to have to keep some fish. It was for a fish fry. My 94 year old great grandmother loves fish. She asked. She received. The "big" girls are still in the pool. These aren't the big ones of Stockton. Stockton has giants. There are plenty left. Smallies bigger than this. And we mainly fished around the dam. Finesse. Shakey head.

Launched around 7:30. Left around 4. Ended up catching 10-15 keeper largemouth. And 3 13-14" crappie.

Figured A Rig would've slowed with the jerkbait bite. All the fish we caught were plum full and puking up craws.

Anybody seeing any males actively on beds yet? I know there are some at Table Rock. Just wondering if they have started yet? Last weekends tournament we had some cruisers. Just no beds yet. The 23# bag brought in last Saturday has me wondering.

Today's big fish. A cold and half dead scale showed 6.81

A couple of whites we caught Saturday afternoon.

I know it is an old model. But last year he purchased a 700series humminbird for the back. And he put the X15 up front. And with the high water recently at Stockton, the bushes pretty much destroyed the transducer. It will mark fish only half the time. And the clicks are very slow. I will try to post a picture tomorrow in the daylight of the connection. The TM is a motor guide. Up front.

For Fathers day I was going to get my dad a transducer for his Lowrance X15-MT. I have found replacements on the internet. But they are all skimmers for the transom. And I cannot find one that is a puck for the trolling motor. My question is if anybody knows where I can find one. Or if there is a different one that would still be compatible with his graph. I know they make a skimmer adapter for the trolling motor. But we have tried that and it doesn't work as well as a puck does. Any help is appreciated. Thank you Shawn.