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I came in from lunch and it was so hot that I was literally dripping with sweat after a short parking lot hike. 2 minutes later, dark skies. 5 minutes later, raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock. 20 minutes later, sun back out. It was like I was at my Granny's house in De Land or something...

I actaully went back to my paypal account and looked up the transaction. 1/4oz football shaky head.

Guilty!!

I would if I knew lol! I'm not trying g to be a smart Alec (Jason and / or Scott can attest) - I don't have my stuff marked! I just grab one that feels like it'll do. The one I was throwing was a football head shaky style that I got on eBay. I would guess 1/4?

Thanks bubba

I caught a couple shaky head fish and a couple spinnerbait fish; but nothing worth bringing to scales. Shaky head fish were in 25' or so over by Monte Ne and spinnerbait fish were in 7' or so up the river.

I know, I know - Not a Beaver Lake specific question. But, y'all are the brothers I talk to most on here, so that's why I am asking in this forum. Has anyone on here used electrical tape for backing on a baitcast reel? I don't mean just a layer for tying braided line - I mean several wraps so that no true backing line is used? Just several wraps of electrical tape and then main line. I wonder if that would work? If it would, I would think it would be cheaper than using even the cheapest monofilament for backing?

I'd imagine a few of the fish we caught were suspended (drop shot was 18-24")

The area we fished was awfully rough water by 9:30-10:00 each morning. The wakes just serum to carry all the way through the coves...

The bass on Grand Lake are meaner than Beaver Lake Bass. My partner and I just got home from this weekend's big bass event. We didn't weigh a fish. Never boated anything over 3.0 (on our little hand held scales). I am going to guess we caught 20-25 keeper blacks between Saturday and Sunday. Buzz baits in the morning anywhere we saw shad (which was just about everywhere!). When the sun came out, I flipped a drop shot or a Jika Rig into shady corners of docks while partner fished out deep with Carolina rigged lizard (watermelon red, I think). I was drop shotting either Mr. Frank's (Swing Oil Baits Owner) finesse worm (smoke/purple) or a zoom finesse (Green Pumpkin Magic). The Jika Rig had a big plum-colored 7" or 8" ribbon tail worm. Between the two of us, we lost 4 fish within 5'of the boat that we could see and swear to as being 5+ pounds. Two more broke off, but we never turned their heads, so we don't really know what those fish were. We are pretty sure that we had a few money-fish on our lines, we just couldn't get the big girls in the boat haha! The best docks would be 20'-25' deep in front, but I'd pull the fish out from behind boats in stalls - fish were in 12'-15' I'd say. We fished all of time from Rapier to the intake across from the dam. Congratulations to all who won anything this weekend on Grand!!

Should we, as a group, take videos of the worse / most dangerous offenses (with boat numbers) and send to authorities?

Some had a gold/tan back and some had the normal white/black back. I thought maybe the gold/tan backs were hybrids?

Blackburn - out in the points, not actually in Blackburn. Whites or hybrids (can't tell the difference) busted surface between 7:15 and 8:15 last night. Crazy feeding for a minute or so, disappear, then go back at it after a few minute break. Decent black bass mixed in with them. We caught a bunch on the regular sized super spooks. Could only get them to eat something loud (one knocker) and shad colored.

Quill, My boat will run 74-77 (depending on The day). I was on Grand a couple of weeks ago on a Thursday. Water was relatively calm, and I was clipping along at 72 or so, when a race boat (looked like one anyway - squared back end with the two pronged front end?) "Eased" up beside me, waved, and walked away as though I was sitting still. I have NEVER seen a boat that fast in my life! It was awesome!

Honda. Pilot. Bayliner. I Will not add the rest of my description from yesterday, as this is a wonderfully monitored family forum

"Brave" is spelled "IDIOT" where I cone from, but thank you for trying to make me feel better

Still can't find a big bite. 15 or so keepers again, but all in the 1.5lb range. Made the mistake of putting in at Honey Creek then running to the dam. I thought I was going to sink the Legend on the ride back. Never seen anything like it. Literal 5' rollers... Anyways, Carolina Rig lizards (sprayed grass color) / drop shot worms (Biospawn - Green Soda/Peach color) got most of this fish. A Couple more on a shaky head (looked like a watermelon worm my buddy was throwing, I forgot to ask specific color). Everything was in 15' - 20' of water, and had to be around big rocks. Caught fish from Honey Creek up to the cove on the left just before the dam. If you find a big-girl-bite, PLEASE let me know

Going back Saturday morning...

LOL!

We had a great day, yes sir. One of these days, I am sure (OK, I hope) that we'll be able to fish a main lake point without the trolling motor shaft being popped out of the water by waves...

No sir, no courtesy dock. Fishing was consistent all day. We caught 30-40 blacks in the 1.5-2.0 range. We were prefishing for the upcoming big bass deal, but couldn't get on anything big. We stuck to main lake points all around the dam area. Jigs, buzz baits, Carolina rigs, and drop shots. Couple of shallow fish, but most came from 15-20'. One of these days I hope to learn the secrets to big fish - I'm surely missing something.

We launched yesterday from.... Ah heck, I can't remember lol! It was really close to the dam though. Pretty sure it was a state ramp; as it had the signs warning about spillways and such. Lots of folks launched from there as well.

Heeheehee... I see what you did there