Quillback

I recall catching a small blue or two, but never getting into them. Good idea on the rubber ball.

If they are going to allow additional development, then they need to consider expanding/renovating public facilities such as ramps and parking.

When I was young, living in Massachusetts, caught some of those smaller stripers, they call them "schoolies" up there. Lots of fun on light tackle. Always liked to twitch a floating Rebel minnow for them for top water strikes.

Hard to tell, but looks like a cottonmouth. You should've grabbed it and brought it home for some better pictures.

HAHA, no modifications going to happen. I'm going back to black bass unless one of my buddies wants to give the stripers a shot.

Didn't investigate the stomach contents. Probably would find a bunch of stinky half digested shad. Fishburger, great idea, I'll have to do a search for a recipe.

I fried some last night, not bad at all. I always trim off as much of that red meat as possible, really seems to help.

Yes sir, Zoom UV Speed Craw. Had another walleye take a look at one, but it was while I was bringing a 12" spot to the boat. The craw was halfway up the leader, and the walleye was after it. Nice keeper sized fish. I made several casts in the area I saw it, but could not get it to come back.

I went back to the same place in Clifty where I caught one yesterday. Stayed off the bank a bit and threw topwater baits around. Got out early, I was on my spot by 0530. Beautiful morning with a full moon and cool air temp. Started off throwing a Yellow Magic Havana, a 5 inch walk-the-dog type lure for those of you not familiar with it. First cast I had a striper blow up on it 4 times and miss it every time. Threw it back in there, 2 more blow ups on it, again all misses. Threw it again at the same spot, finally got one, but it was a small one by striper standards, about 3 lbs. I released it. Threw the Havana some more, hit kind of a lull, not much activity, only had a few swirls at it, fish just seemed to be a bit shy of that lure. So, I went back to the Yellow Magic popper and the smaller, more finessy lure is what they wanted. Got some tremendous strikes on it. I was throwing it on a medium weight 7 foot crankbait rod, 10 lb. mono, and those fish were in control. Just had to let them pull drag when they wanted, keep pressure on, and eventually they'd wear out. Fortunately no trees in the water for them to wrap up on. Got my three fish limit, I estimate they went 15, 11, and 8 lbs. Kept all of them as once they are worked this hard, survival chances are low in warm water. Wish I could have kept fishing as they were still blowing up, but catch and release was not an option. Did some black bass fishing afterwards, caught some short smallies, one keeper sized meanie, several small spots, all on the C-rig with a craw. Also caught a walleye that was 17.5. Wish he would have made that keeper mark as I was going to be cleaning fish and it would have been good to have a couple of walleye fillets. Water temps were 73-75.

Appreciate the report, even though the fishing was slow, I was curious as to what the water color was in that area.

A striper bite broke out. Fished with a fellow Bella Vistan this morning, we launched at 0515 and zipped over to the Clifty arm. Started fishing a pojnt and noticed some stripers chasing shad, tossed a Yellow magic popper at them and caught a 10 lber. My buddy threw a Whopper Plopper at them, he had a couple of swirls but didn't hook up. The top water bite did not last long and they were scattered, didn't see any schooling. Caught one more little striper about 3 lbs. and that was it for the striper bite. We then went to bass fishing, found a few decent keeper sized smallies, couple of nice spots, and a dozen dinks. Dragging 1/2 oz War Eagle football jigs with twin tailed trailers was the best technique. Got a couple on topwaters and one Carolina rig smallie. Caught one largemouth that was 14" or so, but never ran across any other largies. Decent water color in Clifty, you can see botoom in about 7 FOW. WT 75. Several striper boats in there pulling balloons. Cold this morning, had to wear the hoodie for a while.

Campbell point, which is not to far from you, is decent water color and no floaters, at lest last week there were not any. No courtesy dock, so you have to launch off the parking lot.

19" smallie, that is sweet!

I thought about picking Davis also, but didn't so it.

The Cousin is a diver on the retrieve.

The bios claim that big female bass don't lay all their eggs at one time, they can spawn several times.

I've seen jigs fished a couple of ways, one way is to fish it without a float, usually 1/8th or 1/16 oz marabou jigs (no trailer). Toss it out, let it sink to the bottom, then rip it off the bottom a foot or two, let it sink again, repeat until you work it back. Zig jigs (zigjig.com) are great for this technique. I've seen very light jigs (1/32 and smaller) fished under a float. Do some searching in the Taneycomo forum and I believe you will find some posts by Phil Lilley talking about fishing them that way. White river forum has posts on fishing Zig jigs.

Dug out some of my old lures. Top left is a Bomber Long-A (I think), top right is a Heddon Cousin II. The Cousin II was supposedly made snagless by the wire loop at the nose. Got both of these lures when I was in high school in the early 70's. Middle row - A Heddon Lucky 13 and a frog popper type bait I can't identify. Both were owned by my grandpa. He probably bought them sometime in the 60's. Bottom is a plastic mouse, similar to todays frogs. It's another high school lure, so it's at least 40 years old.

Looks like it might work, waiting for the on the water test results.

Best wishes to your wife Bo, for a successful procedure and a speedy recovery.

I left the Ned stuff at home, probably could've caught a few on them, but wanted to do fish some other stuff. Didn't want to slow Champ down either, he doesn't let any moss grow on the bottom of his boat.

Hey Bo, caught several fish on one of your Nutech jigs.

I don't know where Champ is coming up with this "relaxing" stuff, we fished hard dadgummit! Joking aside, it's always a pleasure to fish with Champ, I always learn a thing or two out there on the water with him. First time for me in the Campbell Point area, it is really a beautiful section of the lake, not a lot of development that is visible from the lake, and the green hills are pretty this time of year.

Red Eye Shad, I'll be darned. Good to see you back out on the water.

Well only one day down and I am hosed. Brent Ehrler - 103rd. What is up with that? Omori - 95th - I am never picking this guy again. Browning - 85th - He's local. Herren 63rd - Don't know what I was thinking. Shryock 43rd. Did good on MLF, thought it might carry over. Nope. No way I thought KVD would do well in the high, dirty water, but he is #1 on the board.