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Brought some crappie jigs with me, planned of fishing for crappie for most of the day. Well after an hour of not getting a bite on the crappie stuff, I switched over to bass fishing. Mainly threw the Ned, 1/16 oz head. Decent quantity bite, but not one keeper. Caught 20 bass, not one largemouth, and only 2 brown fish, the rest were spots. Most were up shallow on rocky banks with deep water nearby. Lots of tournament boats zipping around. Water temp was hovering around 70.

Nice fish! I'm thinking that with all the pressure during the mornings and early afternoon that the fish may be adapting and feeding in the evenings.

Leader has 15-3.

I hope a collector bought it, because that is the only thing that makes sense.

If I was in this thing, and head 3-5 days to practice from sun up to sun down, and didn't mind burning gas, I would definitely search for deep bass haunts for spooning and the drop shot. I think if you could find them and stay on top of them, you have a shot at a limit. There's some decent large mouth out there too.

Very nice. A good alternative to get away from the bass grind.

A few interviews with a couple of the guys fishing TR for the Costa event. One guy from CA and one from FL, interesting to hear their perspectives. Also an interview with a local guy. I like hearing people talk fishing on this lake, pros or not. I also figured out why they are coming from as far away as CA to fish this, regional winner will get an invitation to fish the FLW Cup. Click on the "Wrapping up practice at Table Rock" video on the homepage. https://www.flwfishing.com/

I'm thinking the same thing as Moguy, probably not noticeable to fish that little bit being left off. They look good!

Chapman has thrown a lot of pitches the last 2 games. Could come back to haunt them.

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Welcome Slabster - Scroll down on the main page to the Beaver lake forum, there's some crappie info in that forum. Introduce yourself to those folks and they'll probably give you some general pointers.

We did see some boats we suspected of being Costa rigs based on them having Power Poles. And there were more than normal buzzing around. Yeah 96, the temps are just stuck about 70-72. Looks like we'll get some colder weather in the next week.

Road, stinking to high heaven. Who remembers that song? It wasn't a very good song, but popular. I did hit a skunk this morning on the way to the ramp. Came at me from the left side of the road, didn't hit it with the truck, but unfortunately the trailer whacked it. Didn't realize it was a skunk, thought it was a possum, but got to the lake and the boat was stinking. It was a sign of how the fishing went, fished with OA member Huntest (Dave), we worked hard for close to 20 bass with only one keeper. We got a few deep early in the morning on spoons and drop shot, and the rest fishing rocky banks with the Ned. Probably should have just stayed at the deep spot, there weren't a lot of fish there, but we would get a bite every once in a while. We left thinking we could do better somewhere else, but never did. It got windier than heck out there later in the morning also. Still fun to get out. Water temp is right around 70.

Thanks for the tip on the 2.5 oz spoon. I picked a couple of these dudes up, thinking they might work for largemouth, but I think they have striper possibility. It's a good sized bait, 5 inches or so.

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Yeah wind can put the Ki-bosh on that surface deal. You guys ever throw those big 6" magnum spoons for stripers?

To add to the motivational theme... My neighbor, who runs his own business and therefore can only fish on the weekends, fished the lower lake this year for stripers. He only fished it during prime time, May into June. He launches on Saturday mornings (early), usually at Lost Bridge Noth, and never has any issues as far as having to wait on a bunch of other boats. He usually just fishes the prime early morning hours and gets off the water around 9-10 AM. I'd call him a modestly skilled fisherman, he just fishes spinning gear, doesn't want to learn to throw a bait caster. He goes out, usually has a spot in mind to start, usually it's a main lake point, near deep water and he'll toss a 4 inch Storm Wildeye shad around all the time watching for surface fish. He's usually got his son with him. When he sees fish on top he'll motor over to them, not right on top of them, but he'll get within a 100 yards, drop the TM and sneak up on them. And he'll usually throw that shad deal at them. They caught somewhere between 25-30 stripers this spring, biggest was 35 lbs. Some days they got their limits, some days not. He doesn't get fazed by other fishermen being around, doesn't care if people see where he is fishing or what he is using, he just goes out and fishes. We're thinking about going this weekend. I'll be happy to share with you guys what happens, hopefully it won't be a skunk. If we go, I'm going to try some surface baits, love to see those big blow ups.

Love those wood ducks. Nice bass!

When the Elites were here for that spring tourney, 2 or 3 years ago, I was up on the White fishing on one of their practice days, I was out early, it was one of those quiet no-wind mornings, and in the background I heard the distant roar of outboards. The lake winds around a bit up there so they can be close but several miles away. Anyway the roaring got louder and here they came, probably a half dozen boats, maybe spaced out 1/2 mile between boats. They were flying, I am sure full throttle. Those guys will definitely travel down the lake if that's what they think they need to do to catch fish.

And I hear you guys on not sharing exact fishing spots.

Nice sack of fish for sure Mike. Personally I don't worry too much about what's "hot" and what's not. You just got to get out and fish and try and ignore the noise. And if you want to see pressure, go over to Swepco on a Saturday around the holidays, but in spite of it, that lake just produces bass. No way you'll catch me over there on a Saturday however. When I was working and had to fish on Saturdays, I would go up to the Indian Creek arm, it may not be the lake hot spot, but generally there aren't a lot of fishermen up there and it's a beautiful place to fish.

I'm assuming it is a 3 day deal?. If so, I would say you'd need around 15 a day. Somebody will get them, no matter how tough it is, somebody always figures something out and gets some good fish.

I have a couple that I need to fish, I got caught up in the Rock Crawler craze and just didn't fish warts much last year. Send them off to Tim Hughes and get some painted in Mo Craw and V-37.

Wow, drive all the way from CA, and I assume towing a boat, to fish a tourney here? I think the Costa series has a pretty good payout, but you'd have to win to make it worth while.

I see, Costa series which is next weekend. Thought you guys were talking about something this weekend.