Hunter91

I agree. The walleye fishing has been excellent. Went today with the wife and son and had one shy of three limits. Caught them trolling and jigging today even caught two on a bass jig.

Fished today and caught a bunch of keepers on a jig. No big fish just 15-17 inchers. Mostly on breaks from about 15 to 21ft

Used to live in Sugarland TX and have visited as well as fished around Seawolf Park many times. The submarine was my favorite exhibit also. Is the ship exhibit still next to it? I believe it was a destroyer escort. Nice pics !!!

Thursday I was prefishing for this past Sunday's AIA tourney. I caught my personal best largemouth on Table Rock that was right at 7lbs. Caught it on a jig in about 12 fow up the White River arm. It always seems that I catch the larger fish while prefishing and then struggle in tourneys for large fish. Personally I have caught many more fish this spring over 4lbs on the Rock than I have in the past 15 yrs I have fished it. I would like to think its because I have evolved somehow into a better fisherman but in reality it must be that we have some strong year classes of good fish coming on. Either way it has been a real fun spring!! Thanks for letting me brag a little.

My fishing partner caught the previous state record yellow perch out of Barker Hole while we were bottom bouncing spinners with minnows it was a whopping 13.1 inches and weighed 1.4lbs I believe. I have caught a few on the lower lake while bottom bouncing for walleyes and I agree that they are very tasty!

WM, We were bouncing using spinners.

No luck turkey hunting this morning so my wife and I fished with a friend of ours this afternoon. Caught about 20 walleyes with 8 keepers on nightcrawlers. Several large bluegill and 2 keeper crappie along with at least two keeper bass(that were promptly released). The water depth ranged from 15-40 ft

I believe the statewide limit is 15inches except for the lakes listed at 18inches.

Its been about 3-4 yrs ago but at this time of year I caught a ton of good crappie up to 14 inches out there. Most of them on swimming minnows or live minnows near where the old pump platform was near the bluff. There were several brushpiles in there. i dont know if the MDC put them in there or they just floated in there when there was high water. They were right on a drop off from shallow ater to deeper water. I haven't fished the lake as much as I use to but in the last year or two, I have only picked up one here and one there. Also there use to be a good brushpile near the railroad bridge that I could catch a few on.

The wife and I were there this afternoon from about 3 til dark. Ended with a dozen keeper crappie, one white and one 16 in eye. Fishing back of a couple pockets out toward lake. Chart swimmin minnows were the ticket for us.

I was in that area yesterday evening. Only caught 6 keeper crappie and probably a dozen short fish. The crappie I caught were pretty dark fish. They were all in 2-10fow.

That is the area around the greenfield access off of Hwy CC.

Fished out of ruark bluff today with my daughter and a friend. We caught a dozen largemouth with three between 15-17 in. Caught them mostly in 4-7 fow on red eye shad 1/4 oz. had a few small ones on SB in same area. These were in the very backs of coves. Also finally picked up a couple of keeper crappie on brush piles 20 ft down on live minnows.

Thanks.

Is it muddy around Cape Fair right now?

I wasn't real thrilled to see this left next to the parking lot at Bridgeport yesterday but they must be catching a few in that area.

We fished around Bridgeport this afternoon and ended with 15 keepers only caught three or four short fish. All our fish were in 5 to 15 fow on some kind of structure on swimmin minnows.

I was up near Ashercane Tuesday and water temp was as high as 56.

Good point :-)

I would second the suggestion of Rockaway and Bull Creek. I have caught several nice largemouth in the past few years in that area.

Its interesting with all the controversy over this new bait/tool or whatever you want to call it, that there has been no proof that it will affect the fish population, lots of speculation but no proof. I am a duck hunter also and it brings to mind the big controversy over the spinning wing decoys that came out a few years ago. There were a ton of hunters claiming it was an unfair advantage and it would draw in so many ducks to be killed that it was going to affect the population. Well, here we are several years later, its still popular and it has been proven that it does not affect the duck population. The spinning wing decoy has its place in some duck hunting situations and in others it can be a deterent. I believe the same will eventually be proved of the A-rig. I think ,as mentioned before, this rig will become another tool to be used in certain conditions. I have a few A-rigs, have a couple of graphs on my boat, a 225 hp motor to push the boat around at speeds in excess of 60 mph, I also own a couple of spinning wing decoys as well as a semi auto shotgun. All these things in thier time were controversial when they came out and a lot of people were upset about the effects they would have on the sports of fishing or hunting. Now most of them are considered commonplace. We still have excellent fish and wildlife populations in spite of these. I've caught some fish on the A-rig but will say its not my favorite. I will use it when I think it will work and I will fish other baits when I think they will work. I think you will see all the hype peak this year and come back to a normal level before this time next year. Just my humble opinion. Let's go fishing

I was up at CC on wednesday and had issues finding keeper crappie also. Caught about a dozen all short crappie suspended in about 18 fow, Also caught some keeper whites shallow 3-8 ft in the same area. It is always better to fish anyway than not fishing at all

I guess you could call the color of my boat coca cola. Its a champion with a 225 merc. If you see me again holler at me

We were throwing red/char and black/chart around any stumps or brush on bluffs north of bridge.

I passed up throwing an A rig today to catch some crappie. We fished around Bridgeport from 11-3pm. We caught 20 crappie with 10 nice keepers from 11-14in also caught several bass in the 10-15in range. We caught everything on swimming minnows and live minnows in 20-25ft.