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We had some gear stolen from a jobsite near Tulsa recently and it showed up on Craigslist within a week. Worth watching, anyway.

If the idea is to fish it on slack line, is fluorocarbon line needed. What about braid with a FC leader or mono? I caught a topwater bass today that spit up 2 of the ned baits in PBJ

LWW, thanks for the report. We ran that area this morning hoping to get on the whites. We haven't tried it in a while and it was good to try some different water. The whites weren't home but we had plenty of fun with the blacks.

Good report. 3 weeks of fishing! I am very jealous. Thanks for sharing

Thanks for the report. It is killing me that I got stuck working and can't get to the lake. Are you having any issues with slime in that area?

Never mind

Thanks for the report. Were you out of the wind? I have a terrible time trying to stay in touch with a 3/16 jig in the wind unless I fish with the wind at my back.

+1 on the Pigsticker Jigs. The Brian Snowden Jig is excellent. I just hope I can fish it without hitting the slime this year.

I picked up plenty of slime in the last few days that was either on the surface or suspended. It must have broken loose in the current. I guess there is still plenty of "nutrient" entering the lake.

I got out early and saw a lot of debris in the water near the channel swing at Icebox. Threw a fin like bait near the debris and caught about ten fish in 30 minutes but only one was a keeper. A lot of fun though. I moved to several spots at the mouths of pockets and concentrated on main lake points and deep docks. After it brightened up the bass tended to swirl on the topwater but miss it. The shorts would get it though. I didn't feel like working slowly so tied on a scrounger hoping for more active fish. The better fish liked that and just hammered it when they took it. This smallie jumped three time and was a blast. Several fish took the bait within a few feet of the boat with others following.

Wow, sounds like a nice event. Danny Cox was an outstanding pitcher and by all reports a great guy. I think he has a regular radio show on Saturdays.

Went out before dawn in a light drizzle hoping for a topwater bite but it was slow on top. 3 short LM's who were not on the points I expected (hoped). Caught them near the backs of docks and they just slurped it. I went in when the thunderstorm hit about 8 and got some work done until noon. Went out at noon and kept at it around docks and ended up with 24 more bass with 9 keepers. At one point I had 7 bass in 7 casts off one dock that was near deeper water. The end was in 52'. The bass would hit when the breeze picked up. I had no luck in slick water. I quit at 4.

Jason, I am sorry for your loss. You and your family are in my prayers tonight.

Thanks for the report, Bill. It is good to hear the fin is working.

Thanks for the report. I heard there wasn't much wind today. With this clear water that can make it tough. I am glad to hear the water is warming up again. I hope to be fishing late Thursday.

That is a good article. If TR becomes, and stays, as clear as Beaver or Bull Shoals it might really change the bass fishing here.

Regardless of the boat any of us run (Triton here) most of us buy tackle on a regular basis. Online sales have got to be coming close to outpacing physical store sales, so it makes me scratch my head sometimes when I try to use the BPS website. Tackle Warehouse and several others are instinctive,and easy to use and I end up spending my money there. When I go to Outdoor World I have to get past the timeshare/Big Cedar pushers and through the clothing store before getting to the tackle section and finding that my choices are mostly some BPS brand imitation of what I am looking for. So click and deliver is how I spend my $$ now. I'm not sure if I will ever buy another boat but, if I do, it won't be a brand new one, so it probably doesn't matter to the manufacturers.

We went out again about 3 PM and hit main lake points with a C-rig and swimming a grub setting the boat in 30 feet. We thought we might get a crack at some of the sows on these windy points but it was slow. No keepers and only a half dozen fish We only saw a few boats all afternoon and came in about 7:30

Thanks for the very useful reports. Have a safe journey.

I doubt that the cold front will improve the fishing, but you know some folks will catch a big sack of them anyway.

We were on the water at first light today. We threw topwaters and wake baits and caught some shorts but many more just swirled at the baits. Weightless paddle tail fluke jr in smokey shad was getting the job done, however. We had 11 keepers and over 40 fish total - most on that fluke. All at the mouths of spawning coves and secondary points. We stayed as far back from the fish as we could and used that Nanofil line with a FC leader to improve casting distance. Almost all the fish came within seconds of the bait hitting the water or within the first or second twitch. Later in the morning we threw shakey jigs with light WM red finesse worms off main lake pockets near docks and the bite was light to undetectable. All hit on the fall and line watching was the only way I could detect the bite. All shorts but a lot of fun. Lunch & Siesta and hope to get out this evening.

Great idea! The last one I tossed in was retrieved by a diver friend of mine and cost me a bottle of good scotch.

Lucky Craft LC Wake Crankbait and Buckeye Wake Up are a couple good ones. The Lucky Craft comes in several sizes and have impressive paint job. They cast a mile, with one regular treble hook and a feathered tail treble. The Buckeye is a long slender bait similar to an unjointed Redfin but with a sharply down-turned lip. We caught a half dozen wake bait fish this morning but many more just swirled or swatted at it. As the water warms this will improve and is a ton of fun. Hope that helps

How about drilling a hole, adding another BB and patching up the hole? I read, years ago, about Charlie Campbell doing that with some wake baits.

We got on the lake late morning Sunday 4/28 and it took us awhile to find the bass. We started in Big Creek with flukes in the back of coves with no joy. The water clarity is amazing. We saw beds but no bass. We talked to our friend Pete Wenners who told us he had been catching with the DC test baits in a one of the new colors, in deeper water.. We backed off and caught LM when we were near wood. Some K's near docks but no brownies today. Beautiful Sunday to be on the lake and not a lot of traffic. We never caught anything big but had a lot of fun. We did see a MO F&G boat and as he approached I put the rod down. My wife & I were reaching for our wallets with the fishing license, but the gentleman was doing a creel survey and wasn't there to see if we were legal. He was interested in what we thought about the brush & rock pile program. Pete and a couple other fellows are testing some unique plastic baits we made to raise money for a wounded veterans charity called "Hope for the Warriors". The baits are named "Danger Close" and it has been my privilege to make and donate them. If/when sure they are sufficiently effective we plan to expand the effort if the interest is there. Thanks to all of you who post and share reports.