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Well put. This is also why I don't provide as much info as I once did. I've seen too many bass going to the cleaning table in recent years. Certainly welcome to do it, but I won't assist it.

Stab 'em in the side like carp. Turtles need to eat too.

I don't have the right NRX model number for that. You'll have to text it to me.

Sounds more and more like the summer deal.

Nice work. We found a few starting to get there, but I get confused when I catch those green things 😉.

I don't eat fish. I just believe in keeping the walleye away from the brown fish places.

Had a few walleye tap-swing-snips. Didn't connect with any either. Shame, because I'm on Team Eradication.

Usually catch a few big gills, and get pestered by scores of green sunfish. Weird deal. Y'all need to figure that out for me 😂.

This info was current as of last evening. So not current at all, in one sense, but I think it's pretty solid. Won't bore folks with info from 2 weeks ago. I did what I like to do, fishing the little guy for shallow brown fish, and despite conditions and pressure, caught fish every day. With the pool jump, water temps, and decent clarity here I did not expect fish to rush to the bushes. Felt like the big rise in 2011, but thankfully stopped short of those numbers. Had a dear friend from Oklahoma come up Wednesday to learn our version of the Ned and other finesse methods. Friday, we took a quick look at the bushes, then went straight outside. Took a bit to get the math right, with the water still coming up, but the fish were basically where they were, or deeper, plus the added water. Read that as, they did not go to the bushes, but also we're not relating to the old bank line. We caught them pretty consistently, with decent quality, from about 24'-33', mix of brown/spots/blacks. Also a mix of stages, post and pre spawn fish. Best baits were ye olde 1/8 Ozark Finesse Heads and cut Zinkerz in PBJ, GP red, and goby. Also caught a few on big GP tubes, and a 3/4oz swing head with a custom Menace grub. Quality was good out there, sometimes ridiculously. Had several 4# brown fish, good numbers of 18" fish. This was still working Monday morning, even with higher water temps. Wind killed the joy yesterday. We did catch some blacks on lawn grass, willow bushes, and flipping green bushes in the afternoon. Temps were pushing 68-69 by then. Straight worms and Bugz/menace on those fish. Could they have moved up hard today? Possibly. But if I had to catch a decent limit tomorrow, I'd be *shudder* off the bank like Mr. B. Shad are starting to ball up where they should be, and it should be a whackfest soon.

Numbers definitely seem to be down. Not sure which year class that would be. Maybe 2017, when high water could have impacted the spawn. They could also just be in different places. What really strikes me as odd, given how, what, and where I fish...I caught precisely zero bluegill, green sunfish, etc. Had very few "perch" bites overall. Caught exactly two gogs.

They'll get up there eventually. Trying to get packed before the sauna is in full force, if I have time I'll get a "current conditions" sort of report up. Pretty much worn smooth today.

They moved some today. Best bite was still outside but that wind just made it a bear. We did catch some flipping and fishing lawn grass, including a decent bedding black around 3#, when we ducked into a cove to get a break from the wind. Water color is a little cloudier, temps shot up. Saw a lot of 68-69 on the Garmin by 330pm, started around 65 at 630am. Lot of shad getting on the sides of the points...where the little jokers should have been two weeks ago. That one went 4.66 on the old MLF scale. Started with an 18", had another 18", then that fish.

I've caught a couple on my reborn Gopper, and a chatterbait. But no size, and no consistency. I'll look at them again tomorrow, eventually they'll move up. For now, I think the better bite is outside, and way outside at that.

Great to see you two getting out and about. Enjoy it.

It's even hard in spots to fish the little rig out deep because of the sawdust and leaves. Line will get up over a leaf, and then everything goes haywire. In 2011 there was one heckuva big swimmer bite too.

Yeah. Truly wish I had a June trip coming up this year.

We sat it out. Neither of us felt like fighting the wind out in 30'. There is a bit of a color line starting up. Could get sporty in a hurry.

He was a happy little bass.

Caught a keeper black in 33' of water, if that helps paint the picture.

We had plenty of boats in, and around, the friendly confines. BFL, HS, few obvious club or jackpot guys. Had a hilarious moment with one particular boat. It's fishing very similar to how I remember 2011 fishing after that jump. Almost like an early summer bite. We haven't found any good ones up in the bushes yet. I'm sure mileage varies on that.

Wind and boats pushed a lot of the debris around later in the morning and day. Early on it was nasty, and foggy. "Pushed around" doesn't mean "picked it clean". Be careful out there. Bound to be more junk floating around in the morning.

That's...surprising. Fish are pretty catchable if you're open minded about it.

They needed to run it last week. As usual. So much for their new pool policy.

Pic of the ramp and dock at Schooner (hoo boy, that's a story unto itself). That was at about 630 after we trailered the barge. Sure doesn't look like it's stopping at 925. Helped one of the BFL guys avert disaster when we gave him a ride to the flooded out dock this morning. He was parked and unhitched at about 924.