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Fish were probably picking your bait up and moving it off the bed. Try throwing either a swimbait, jerkbait, or topwater. Also a Ned Rig can provide more hookups when they are being finicky.

Looks like Saturday is the only day to fish from the weather forecast I saw. I'll be heading out to lower end with a friend. He loves catching the brownies. Dad went out with a buddy today and they caught probably 60. Mostly brownies. Said he had one black that was close to 6lbs throw his bait by the boat.

I think that it would serve the sport better if we cut down on the total amount of tournaments and upped the prizes. I love fishing regardless, but the competitive side of tournament fishing is a thrill. Trying to beat 100-200 other anglers is a challenge. And the reward to me isn't the money, it's the thought that I was the best angler out there during those days. I'm going to go out next weekend since the boat will be out of the shop. Gonna go check in on the smallmouth bite.

I found where Wheeler is fishing via satellite. I'll keep it in the memory bank if I ever want to go fish for jaws on TR. It would be nice if they'd bite the same style swimbait I catch them on Beaver Lake with.

Beaver is a solid lake, especially of late. Glad you had one of those days. Cant beat em.

Seems like all the lakes around the region are fishing the same. The bite is different from one area to the next. You fish an area that looks great and get skunked. You move up one pocket or creek and the bank doesn't look as good, but the fish are biting like crazy. It's been that way on Beaver lake, and even Grand Lake(I just fished there last week.). Good indicator that the fish are prespawn, spawn, and post spawn. You just have to keep hammering away and you will come across them.

Gill would struggle fishing traditionally for an entire tournament. Fortunately he's fishing during the spawn and the wacky rig bite where he's at has been good(it's what kept him with the lead). His live scope ability is top notch and has paid off tremendously both yesterday and today.

I don't know how I feel about them all going back to 0 after making the cut. One thing it does is add more drama. Typically two days after the cold front(tomorrow) the bite is the toughest. With that being said they are in the middle of the spawn so fish should still bite. Scopers will, once again, have a major advantage tomorrow.

Full moon on May 1. Last wave of spawners will be on beds. Will that be the winning pattern? Or will the post spawners feeding up on shad be the winning ticket? I think if the weight minimum is 2lbs then you will see more guys beating the banks up. If it's only 1 lb then I imagine the Kentucky's will come into play. Smallmouth should be a big player. If you can find one of those areas where they are piled in.

Good pictures. I'd be out there but we lost the lower unit on grand this past week. Should have it fixed early next week, I'll try to make it out before the MLF shows.

I was also shocked there wasn't anyone fishing swim baits, for Jaws, with that wind. You can put the trolling motor on high and just fan cast that thing till you find a group.

Thank you TJM I found a post on their facebook page from a few days ago. Sounds like the first round of spawners are up. Which means next two weeks should be gang busters. I've already cleaned the boat, tied on everything I want to throw. Hopefully its a memorable trip. Quillback, I caught my one and only wall mounted fish on Lake Eucha when I was maybe 12 years old. It was 6.45 lbs. Fish was almost big as me.. haha. It was part of the Like Father Like Son fishing circuit that my uncle and I fished together.(Dad fished it with my older brother). I went over there a couple of years ago looking for crappie, but didn't have much luck. Caught several bass though. It's a great little lake.

Great stuff. I told my dad Indian Creek would have been good today. We caught a lot, but water was cooler around Lost Bridge South 57-59. No bloody tails, all fresh fish.

I'm probably going to go over to Grove and bass fish this upcoming week. I cannot find any bass reports online other than the generic ODWC reports. Just curious if the spawn is just getting started, full boar, or over. Water temp etc.. Thanks

I already started noticing some white bass today when we went out. Not every pocket had them but they were mid way back to 3/4 of the way. Never realized that about the buck brush. I do remember it being thick several years ago, just never gave it much thought since then. We caught probably 25 today. 12 keepers. Lost bridge south area. 3 good blacks. one about 3.75 one about 3.2 and one about 2.75. Few solid brownies/meanmouth. That part of the lake is weird right now. Water temp is still running about 57-59. Smallies haven't spawned totally IMO. Either that or the numbers of them have gone down significantly. I fished all my typical spawn banks and half of the fish came in 10-12 ft and the other half were in 3-10 ft. Didn't catch but maybe 15 of them(and I was fishing hard for them). Main lake spawning areas I saw maybe one or two beds with fresh fish on them. Water was slightly cooler there so maybe we were a little early. Got more brown bites in coves and pockets than on main lake(saw a few more beds, but nothing crazy) We used to go out and catch 50 plus during the spawn, so I honestly think they still haven't fully committed. The black bass was kind of similar, one pocket I caught the two FRESH 3.2 and 3.75 and lost a couple more. The next pocket it twas tougher. No rhyme or reason. Maybe they haven't committed fully either. I imagine mid lake towards the river the spawn is full boar or close to over, but up by the dam it just seemed like it's just getting started. At least where I was fishing.