Quillback

Doing a bit of reading on Thermocline. It looks like it is possible for there to be a thermocline, but yet below the level of the thermocline still be enough dissolved oxygen to support fish. At lest early when the thermocline first sets up. So maybe the cline is setting up right now, but there's still enough DO for fish to live below it, at least temporarily before the DO becomes depleted below the cline as the summer progresses.

I am not seeing that thermocline, not that I doubt anyone else. And if there is one, it must be some kind of weird inverted one, because the fish are below it, assuming it is 15 feet or less.

I like those photos, I'd like to get something compact that takes reasonably good shots.

I can't catch a goggle eye in that lake. I bet some of the BFL guys will be fishing some docks.

I saw several boats with today with Power Poles, I was wondering if there was something going on.

I don't know about that DO, but it sure got windy out there later in the AM. Seemed to help the bite. I am not seeing a thermocline at all.

Got out early today, there was an early bite on a gravel point, got a few top water fish there, including the double keeper smallie on a Binksy (what a stupid name for a lure). Top fish was about 18", bottom fish was a ;little over 16. Bottom fish was pretty beat up, skinny, and you can see where he has some hook damage on the corner of his mouth from being caught before. I got tow doubles this morning, the other one was 2 short largemouth. After the gravel bite quit, did some milk run stops on rocky main channel points and threw a 3.8 Keitech on a 3/8 oz head. I fished it deep, slow rolling it, and pausing periodically to let it fall. They'll hit it on the fall quite a bit. Got mostly 13-16" spots doing that, caught a good number of them before they stopped about 11 AM. They were all deep, suspended 20-40 feet down over or around deep trees off those rocky points. Water temp was 87 when I left.

I saw surface temps hit 87 today up the White river arm, I was off the water at around noon.

Nice one Mike!

Good stuff, I'd rather see fish pictures than hook in hand pics, Gives me the willies looking at that.

There used to be a delete option, but it is gone.

Curious if you guys found any good sized redear?

They are getting underneath the docks for sure. Haven't seen anyone working them at all.

Fished the last 2 days out of Big M. Got an early bite off a gravel point on Day 1. Boated that 3 lb. LM and several other fish. Used a Gambler Burner Craw on the C-rig. That Burner Craw is a bigger version of a Zoom UV Speed Craw, seems to work. Gravel point only produced one fish on Day 2. Both days I found spotted bass on the Keitech slow rolled deep. As in 20-40 feet deep over deep trees in 60 FOW. All spots, no largies or brown fish. Very nice spots for the most part, 14-17" fish. There's some top water fish to be caught still, not a lot, but you'll see a blow up every now and then, if you can get something on them quickly, they may bite it. Have gotten a couple of smallies on a blue/black jig, and some fish on the c-rig with a Zoom Trick worm. Bite gets tough around 11 AM, and that is when I head in. I think I remember seeing the water temp at about 86 this morning.

Love those tank spots!

Yeah I am a bit disappointed in the lack of depth, maybe they'll come out with a deeper runner. Like the colors.

Yeah Mike we had a good time, but there was a time late in the morning where it was hot, humid and no wind whatsoever that makes a person miss the cooler days of spring. A little bit of a front came through about 11 AM, that brought a bit of a drop in the humidity and a little bit of a breeze and made things a little more tolerable.

Never have fished LOZ, but it will be fun to watch the show.

Got out on the water with board member Hammertime today. We did the usual early launch, got on some top water fish early, which again lasted for about a half an hour. Tried the Keitech for a while, but the fish had pretty much vacated the Keitech spots that had been working for me. We got a couple on the swimmers, but it just wasn't going to happen. Threw jigs for a bit on chunk rock and bluffs, we got a few doing that, but it was slow. We then tried some gravel with c-rigged Trick Worms and started getting consistent bites, but mostly 10-14" spotted bass with a couple of keepers. We did not get real deep off the gravel, getting most of them in 10-15 FOW. We ended up with about 45 bass total, mostly shorts, maybe 6-8 keepers, but not a one over about 16". Water temp was 82-84. Water still a murky green color with a few feet of viz.

Yeah you pulled the trigger alright, I went over to HLS and they said some guy had just left 10 minutes before I got there and had bought all the pre-orders. It's bad enough when you clean out the shelves of what is in stock, but when you buy up all the pre-orders, doggone it, that just ain't right.

Nice, good to see ya'll are getting them!

I don't know what to think of that one. It will probably work.

Congrats to your son, very nice bass.

Went fishing today with OA member Muddy Water, launched at the crack of dawn and fished until about 1130. We started with top waters, had a 30 minute TW bite off a gravel point, we might have got 7 or 8 on the TW, and Muddy got a largie that was around 2.5 on the TW. After the TW bite died we tossed Keitechs, well I tossed Keitechs and Muddy threw some different swimmers at them. We fished some docks ends that were over deep water and then a rocky point with deep trees. Keitech fish were deep, usually suspending 20-30 feet down over 50-70 FOW. We did have a huge school of black bass get on top for about 5 minutes, just enough time for us to get 3 or 4 on the TW stuff. I also got a couple to eat a Finesse worm on a drop shot. We caught largies and spots, never did get a brown fish. Not quite the bite that it was Friday, I think we got 35-40 between the two of us. I did get a 4.5 lb. LM on the Keitech. Fishing got tough around 11 AM. I forgot to note the water temp, probably 82-83.

Fowl, same as what Ham says, they just load up, or a tick, and when it's a tick, sometimes it will go slack. I pretty much go by the theory of since I'm fishing deep, anything that feels squirrely is a bite. But that will lead to me setting the hook on a deep tree every once in a while.