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Those are some great fish! All the shad must be down lake, I hardly see any up the White.

That's great! Some really nice fish.

Fished from first light until 2:30 PM. Sun came out in the afternoon, flat calm and it even got a little warm. Ned bite was pretty good, boated 25, mostly spots, with a few largemouth and smallmouth mixed in. Got them all on the Ned, except for one on a Keitech 2.8. Some fish were on long rocky runouts, some were just inside coves around trees. Still getting them deep, anywhere from 12-25 FOW. Surface temp inched up a degree or so since the last time I was on TR, a little over 43. Had a couple of guys about a hundred yards from me at one spot working A-rigs, they were catching bass. The 3 amigos: This post has been promoted to an article

That's fun, getting out and exploring some new water and it looks like a spot worth returning to. Didn't know about those Sika deer either, is there a season for them? You'd think there would be some hunting pressure on them due to their uniqueness here in the states.

This time of year is the time for big ones, that's what I tell myself to keep me going on slow days like today.

Put in 6 hours today, launching at 0730 and fishing until 1:30 PM. It was very slow, caught 3 bass total, one was a 16" smallie, the other 2 were 12 inchers. Fished deep and shallow, main lake, back in the coves, just could not find any fish. Tried jerk baits, and a 2.8 Keitech, the three I caught all came on the Ned rig. WT was 43, there's some stained water back in the coves, but it's pretty clear in the dam basin area. This post has been promoted to an article

Nice one for sure!

Hope you do well!

I read somewhere that they can use ground up carp as a binding agent in cement, instead of using coal ash.

Windier than heck here, but the sky is blue and it's warm. No way I'd fish in this wind.

Usually have two rigged up. Somedays 3.

Used to stay at them every once in a while when I traveled for work. Used to have a pretty good breakfast buffet, if so, don't eat too much!

Could've been - they did a close-up on the jig and it looked like marabou to me, but hard to tell for sure. For sure the Zig jigs are a bargain compared to others. Been trying to talk Richard into making some solid chartreuse jigs, smallies like chartreuse. I talk to a veteran Table Rock fisherman that fishes, and catches a lot of winter bass on a chartreuse 1/8 oz crappie jig.

I'll be interested in getting some, I was watching a fishing show the other day, one of the Lindner's fishing what they called a "Hair Jig" for smallies on one of the Great Lakes. Looked more like a marabou jig to me, anyway they were swimming it for pre-spawn smallies and doing really well. They were using brown jigs and it looks like they had a strand or two of mylar in them for a little flash.

Went to bed way too early last night, and now and I am up and drinking coffee. Looks to be a band of T-storms heading this way, should be here in a bit.

Launched at 0700, it was 37 degrees, misty with a bit of a breeze. Didn't warm up much, it was 43 at the ramp when I pulled out at 2 PM. Water temp varied between 42 and 43. Threw a jerk bait a bit to start the day, never got a bite on it. Threw it to one spot that has pretty consistently held a bass or two, no takers, threw a Ned in there and caught a keeper sized spot. After that, I just stuck to the Ned. Bite was slow, sometimes it was super light, I was throwing braid, with a fluoro leader, sensitive rod, and I could not believe, even with that set up, how light some of the bites were. Fish were scattered, some were inside a cove, some were main lake. Caught 14 total, 4 definite keeps and maybe had two others that would've made the mark. Fish are still deep, 10-20 FOW. Lots of boats out there today. This post has been promoted to an article

You guys have all the fun, I have pulled into dock stalls a couple of times and have yet have anyone yell at me or offer coffee. 😄

Well I might use brook trout for catfish bait - assuming it was legal, which it probably isn't even in places they are trying to get rid of them..

I'd rather eat catfish than brook trout. 😄

Must've been about 25 years ago, but I had some blackened sturgeon in a restaurant in Portland, it was excellent. Used to catch them in the Columbia river, kept a couple thinking that it would be great eating. Tried several ways to prepare it, including blackened and smoked, but it always was lousy. I am beginning to think they restaurant made a mistake and served me something other than sturgeon.

Put a fisherman in a time machine and he'd never come back to live in our current time, except maybe to pick up some tackle.

That's what I was thinking, that fish would have to weigh at least 60 lbs. we're talking musky size, and a huge musky at that. I want to believe, but I'm calling BS.

Too cold for me to even think about it. Friday may be a decent day to be out.