Lance34

Little late with this... Got out Saturday 5am till about noon... Didn’t put a minnow in the water until about 6:30... Back in November I got a new graph and just got around to putting it on at the wheel a couple weeks ago. Just rather go fish. It’s a Humminbird Helix 10 si Mega. Got to playing with all the bells and whistles of it. Once getting started I got bit right away and stayed pretty steady until about 9 when it shut off. Was catching them in 37-25 fow about 11 to 13 feet down. After 9 I lost them. Took about an hour to get back on a pattern. Moved out along the channel edge and started marking fish 20 feet down or more in 25-27 fow. I put my baits down to 20 feet and finished out my limit after that. Getting hot. The trolling pattern, cranks, long lining, rigging ought to pick up and be a mad bite now. Good fishing and God Bless Lance This post has been promoted to an article

Got started about 6:30 yesterday morning. Minnow rigging 1oz rigs in 30-35 fow and about 11 to 13 feet down. Pretty much the same pattern I’ve been on the past several weeks but just adjusting the depth to where they are getting on up higher in the water column. They bite really good first thing until the the sun gets up higher and then it slows or just plane stops. Guess I’ll need to get startEx at like 5am. Those last 5 fish took some effort. Vertical bluff lines in the shade. Along docks and brush piles finished the deal. More I think about it and after chatting with a buddy. It had a lot to do with how I approached those areas and how they are facing from the sun. Go one way nothing and then flip it around and get bit. Gonna have to work on that and pay more attention to that as the summer progresses. Good fishing and God Bless Lance

Got started yesterday about 7:30 and fished till 2. The bite was pretty steady for everything until about 10 when the sun popped out. Caught everything that swims yesterday in Beaver. Crappie, Bass, White Bass, Cat Fish, Walleye, and a big ole Gar.... Figured I was in the right place when I hooked up on a gar... Marked fish from 15 feet down to 20 in 30-35 fow. They wanted it higher up in the column about 13 feet down. It seemed to be the most consistent bite. Had 11 when the sun popped out and then shortly after that the party crowd started to arrive. The place became an ocean quick. Wanted to fish a little longer so I move in a pocket cove that is away from the waves and I know has brush piles in it. I ran several passes over them and caught two more keepers but mostly all shorts. Decided to pull up and head to the house. Ended with 13 Good fishing and God bless.. Lance This post has been promoted to an article

@Greg B. it’s kind of blurry just zoom in to see it clearly

@TrophyFishR thanks bud @Greg B. yeah I hate fishing that deep. Long lining and cranks it’s a lot of line out to get down that deep to them. Then you have to deal with boat control more and tangles. Smart idea with adding weight. If I can find it I got a long lining jig chart I’ll send if you want. Whenever it gets hot and thermocline sets up they’ll come up. I was using 1/2oz rigs and need to step it up to 1oz rigs to avoid the sway. Can tell bites a lot better too. Hope the back comes around for you

Got started close to nine and finished about noon Saturday. WT 63-65 and clear clarity. Last week was off for us. Never could get on a pattern. Caught a mess for dinner just not very many. Chalked it up for that post spawn lull. Decided to head down river to fish a post spawn pattern. Got them quick in 28-35 fow ranging in depths from 18 to 22 feet down. Marked a ton of fish averaging at the 20 foot mark. Just below or above. Went along a bluff with pockets. The corner of the pockets is when I would get hammered. Did catch stragglers down the bluff but those pockets got me sitting on the edge of my seat. Had 14 females and one male. Everyone of the females still with eggs. They look like they are reabsorbing them. The color of them looked light tan. More rain next week. Geez Pic below. First from previous trip and the next from yesterday. Also that’s like a 11” crappie belly with 2 shad, my minnow and eggs in it🤣🤣 God bless and good fishing.. Lance

@Greg B. awesome man! Time on the water. That’s all it takes. All those bells and whistles out there don’t beat time

Got out Sunday about 10:30 and fished till 4. Marked fish about 15 feet down over 21 fow. I was rigging along a hump and knew I was moving too fast due to a tailwind. Once I got to the other end of the hump I flipped it around and place my boat right on the edge. Bite picked up really quickly rigging along the edge with baits down at 12 feet down. Had 11 pretty steady and then the last 4 took took forever it seemed. They just shut off. I decided to change up bait size and go to a smaller minnows. It picked back then but not mad. Ended with 14 females and 1 male. All females still had eggs. Some looked close, some didn’t and some looked like they dropped some but not all. Water temp 61-65 and green clarity. Couple more weeks probably. Good fishing and God bless Lance

@EzFishN thanks man!!

Ah man! Hopefully back up and running soon

Got started about 9:30 yesterday morning. WT 54 and got up to 60. Slightly stained water clarity. Got one right away in 20 fow at 17 feet down but shortly after I hooked into a 24 inch striper that went through 4 of my other lines. After about 30 or so minutes of tying new rigs on and running line back through eyelets of 3, 16 foot poles I was back to fishing. But geez it wasn’t much after that I got into another 24 inch striper. It was 10:45 then. It was quite for about 45 minutes. Caught a few dink crappie but no keepers. Then boy it happened again another 22” striper!! It got into another line so spent about 15 minutes tying a couple more rigs on again. It was getting close to about noon and haven’t really put a pattern together yet. Had one crappie in the well and dragging striper on a stringer when it started I caught a crappie at 10 foot down in 20 foot of water. Then caught another at 10 foot down. They were on the bottom but didn’t want it there. Wanted to shoot up to it I guess. Either that or they came to life around noon. Got a limit pretty steady and fished to about 3:30. Ended with striper and 5 big female whites that I gave to fellas out there fishing. At the end of the day through all the stripers and white bass tangles I think I tied up rigs 10 times. Been awhile since that happened. God bless and good fishing Lance

Yeah my only issue with them pulling now is them females won’t go to the bank. Being such high water that could be different this go around. Last year they pulled during this time and every female I caught was absorbing their eggs.

On the water I use like a action camera that takes a number of photos on like a 30 second setting My wife took this one in the garage

Got out earlier than usual. Started at spot 2 were I finished off previous trip. Knew it was going to be slow but them big fish caught last week had to be still there roaming around. Caught two toads right away in 14 fow 12 feet down on a steep ledge and then it went quite. No consistent pattern all day like previous trip. Scattered bad. Had to move all over the place. Deeper water, channel edge, shallower clean trolling water that’s not in the bushes but has a pea gravel bank and steep ledges. Every move caught a fish but never another one. Caught one hammer in 20 foot just roaming out in the middle while just crossing back over to a shallower ledge. With how all it went every fish caught was a SOW!! Sure made the effort a rememberable day. Caught 10 pigs and two squeakers. Tossed 5 back and kept 7. Man this weather. Next week forecast doesn’t look stable at all. Good fishing and god bless Lance

Got started about 11 Sunday and fished to about 4:30. Spot one was 58 degrees water temp and more on the clear side than stained clarity. Was catching fish constantly in about 14 fow and 10 feet down but not many the right size. Gave it about an hour with 7 fish in the box and decided to head to spot 2. Water had a little more color to it and was also 58 degrees. Put my boat there too in 14 foot of water and could tell that fish were just off the bottom. Put a couple lines down to 12 and bam right away it was on. SOW after SOW... Made one pass on about a 30 yard stretch of bank and picked up 6. Flipped it around and let the wind push me out a little deeper to not disturb anything for the next pass. That pass wasn’t as good. One was moving faster like .5 to .7 and boat waves had the poles pogoing. Just mainly used it to bait up again and let the waves settle... As I got back to the start to flip it around had 2 poles go down and that fished out the limit. Hung around a little more and culled a few and then headed to the house Minnow rigging 14 fow, 10-12 feet down. Moving .1-.3 mph was the pattern God bless and good fishing Lance

Depends on what part of the lake you are fishing.. Water temp dropped back down to 55-58 this weekend down south.. Put the females down on the bottom in 14 fow when I went Sunday.. Males should be in the bushes.

@Bill Babler Not very often.. I did get one while bouncing... But I could probably count on one hand that that’s happened. I try to keep everything steady, quite as possible.. With boat wakes there’s real no way around it. Rolling waves from the wind not that big of deal if you’re using limber rod tips and doesn’t pogo. One thing that helps keep things steady is keeping the front of your boat down in the water. Use like stand bags and get like a silent stalker to help quite boat slap.

@Bassmeister Males should be up there on the south end. WT 63 degrees at the second spot I fished. 58 at the first so maybe not so much. Black crappie males for sure. I just never fish up shallow for the males. Want them Sows!! Personally think the females move in at night, early morning and late evening. Then move back out with the high sun... Not all do but more consistent catching big females out a little deeper

Got out after online church services Sunday about 11 and fished till 5. This time of year I target females staging along pea gravel banks. Rigging along those in about 15 fow give or take. Started down a bank and was catching fish but boat wakes with wind combined had to go find somewhere else. Rather compete against one and not both. Chose to go far up a creek to get out of the wind. Got on a steady consistent bite on a 14 foot contour to finish out my limit with baits down about 10 feet. They seemed to favor tiny minnows. Smaller than a medium minnow. They seemed to be liking smaller size baits all year. Guessing because they been so full and have a endless buffet of shad. They didn’t want it bugging too yesterday. With boat wakes and wind that made for a challenge. Shut down at 5 and headed for the house. Good fishing and God bless Lance

Got out Sunday after church services... Fished from around 11-5... Water temp was 51-53 rolling mud but found better water in the back of a creek arm. It was stained but not brown.... Searched around for awhile catching fish here and there but put it together to stay on the flat side of the channel edge 10-12 fow... That was best consistent steady bite... I don’t know how many I caught... Just got to 10 and then started tossing back... Black crappie were on the move... Don’t hardly ever get into them rigging but I guess with the brown water they got to get off brush to eat... Plus they getting ready to do their thing... God bless and good fishing Lance

That’s typical... About the time fish start looking for a prom date... SMH I understand though it’s purpose... It’s a flood control lake...

@Phil Lilley good deal... Let me know if you do and I’ll try to point y’all in the right direction!

Got started yesterday about 11:30... WT got up to 51 and clarity was pea green... Wanted to fish a new areas that I know holds fish that just haven’t been bothered... But when the wind and boat waves keep bouncing my tin can around it can get frustrating... So pulled out and trailed elsewhere... Launched again at 2 and got started back at it at 2:30... Found them right off the bat but they weren’t ready to eat yet... Said to myself I’ll come back to them at 4:30... So moved to go find other fish... Found them deeper at like 19 fow about 15-16 feet down but they were just little keepers and shorts... Stayed at it with them until 4:30 then went back to those earlier fish marked... Put myself in 10-12 fow and 8-10 and bam the madness started and it got better and better as it darker... Fished until I couldn’t see my rod tips anymore... They were hitting still as I pulled up... Just kept 10 slabs... God bless and good fishing Lance