KistlerLews85

Anyone fishing this tournament on Saturday? Weather isn’t looking good at all and I’m not sure I want to make a 3 hour drive.

Had a couple tough days last week. Here’s some of the ones I was fortunate enough to catch. Headed back to Little Rock Friday. Hopefully we can get back up there soon. https://youtu.be/XKuwKi8CNiE https://youtu.be/saHWGWPGd8A

Caught this fish Monday and noticed it had similar colors to a smallmouth. Can anyone ID this for me? Was thinking it could be a meanmouth, but I’ve never caught one before.

I picked up an underspin this afternoon and did pretty well as far quality goes. Had 8 bites. Landed 6. Lost a really nice smallmouth that was nearly black in color right at the boat. Heart breaker for sure

How was the moss?

Thanks for the report Bill. Man I’m excited to come up next week! Will you be doing any more reports before Sunday?

I’ve got a Shimano Crucial 6 1/2 ft medium power fast action that just works flawlessly. Paired with a 2500 series reel, I’m able to make long casts with it. Guess it depends on how heavy of a head you wanna use. I go pretty light to get a slower fall, like you said, the smallmouth get it on the fall lot of times. They’ll swallow it every once in awhile.

Hey Mike! Sunday was the slowest day we had probably due to all the boat traffic. My brother had 2 keeper smallies and 3 keeper largemouth after the first 2 hrs on a Ned rig. The largemouth came in a spawning pocket 10-15 ft. Probably on beds. Afternoon bite was a little better monday bite was a little better. Caught a few on topwater but no keepers. Caught a real nice largemouth on a swimbait on a point back in a creek arm. Ned rig dominated again that day with some nice keeper smallmouth on gravel banks we got rained on Wednesday. Caught one spot on a frog early. Dad caught a 18.5 smallmouth on a fluke and I lost another nice largemouth on a swimbait. Gravel bank with bushes again. didnt have much time to fish Friday but the front seemed to have shut them off The schoolers that came up chasing close enough were easy to catch. I used a white yellow magic popper on those. Some real aggressive blowups!

Fished Sunday-Friday. Top water bite was great Tuesday and Thursday. Hope to get back soon!

Thank you, Bill! Coming up from Arkansas. Fishing Sunday-Friday

Will the lake be fishable next week?