Report About Saturday

[Doug Weston]

I went out yesterday. Boat on every point, far as the eye could see. I don't know how they did, but I can tell you what I found. I was able to reproduce fish with of course a spinnerbait, in the very backs of creeks. on Flats and the fish seemed to be hanging around the old shore line. I fished from about baxter to Roaring river. I could not get a bite in roaring river. The water is extremely clear up there, and no one I talked too admitted to catching anything. Seems to be not the area to go. I wonder how the BFL boys did? There sure were a lot of boats out. I'm off this morning to fish a small club tourney with 5 boats. Maybe I can reproduce some from yesterday. I wanted to thank Bill and the others for posting this information, so I will try and post a little when I go out. Bill I called your lodge to find out about the Big Bay launch ramp. I knew people were launching there, but I just wanted to know how exactly a club could do there. We ended up picking the bridge, but If I bothered you by calling I apologize. I did not want fishing information and I did not use your 800 num. I think that takes some balls to act like that. I also had no idea that people would be doing that. I hope to come back on with a big report of lots of fish caught.

Doug

[haleconst]

Here is the link to the BFL results for yesterday.

http://bfl.flwoutdoors.com/tournament.cfm?cid=2&tid=5916

David

[Doug Weston]

As Promised I thought I would post how I did yesterday. I caught 3 fish, all shorts. My partner however caught 6. His bag weight was 16lbs 6oz. The fish were exactly where I found them Saturday. The biggest fish were "yard fish" meaning we caught them out of someones yard. I didn't weigh a fish, but I really did put my partner on fish. I fished as a non boater and we couldn't get more than one fish off any single piece of structure. The fish we found were in backs of creeks, where the water had a foot or more visibility. The active fish seemed to be roaming the flats in the very back of the creek, and when not feeding, they seemed to relate to the old creek channel dropoff. All the fish came with spinnerbaits. Interesting though, I tried a swimbait 4.5", used it as a trailer on a chatterbait type of bait, and caught several fish over the weekend, including the 4.6 lber I caught on Saturday. Even the small fish took this bait deep in their mouth. The type of bait was not hollow and very flimsy, or soft with lots of tail action. I was able to catch several fish with one bait though, it didn't tear up. Has anyone explored this? It seemed to give away some fish locations too, as some would follow it.

Curtis Walker was my partner from Joplin, he won the tournament and won big bass also with one that was exactly 5 lbs. He caught the only limit for the day.

Doug