Upper White - Thurs

[SLIPPERY SI]

have you guys noticed a difference in morning bite versus afternoon bite?

sure do appreciate the info you guys post!!!

[Bill Babler]

Most of the boy's I am speaking with are catching them from about daylight to around 10 AM. It's goes pretty dead, like STONE, until about 3:30. Pretty good again till dark.

Spoke to a couple of the BFL guys pre-fishing at Shell Knob, yesterday, and they had their dobbers down. Most started at 8 or 9 yesterday morning, and when I was taking out a 2 PM they told me they had caught the big ZIP.

Spoke to a least 2 dozen guys in total yesterday. Bite pretty fair from Kimberling to Clevenger, Pretty Bad elsewhere.

One of my really good friends did not start till noon yesterday, He is here to fish the BFL. He had about 16 lbs. Between 1 and dark in the dam area. All SM, and NONE of them on the spinner.

Good Luck, Got to go to the fish factory.

[SKMO]

Time of day..... earlier did seem to be better and like Bill said by 1000 hrs it was getting tougher, but we did scratch a couple after that. I have not been in late afternoon but on sunny days I think the potential for it to get better as the water warms is absolutely there.

Regarding jigs I imagine you could catch some good fish doing that but to me the name of the game is covering as much water as possible looking for the occasional agressive fish, which tend to be good ones. SB's are perfect for this.

Topwater... I have been thinking about that, but all the blade fish I have run across are fairly deep over the bushes, plus not seeing any shad near the surface to speak of. I think if you ran a topwater in the real shallow stuff as the water warmed you might have some results but the "easy" shallow stuff is getting pounded by a lot of boats. There are obviously a lot of fish holed up in the jungles in the 1-5' deep water where at least I have no desire, nor the skillls/equipment to try to mess with them.

Like Bill said there's going to be some new things going on in the near future as the water clears, warms and drops and post-spawn fish are more numerous.