Upper Lake Report

[rps]

Fished about four hours on Saturday morning and another three on Sunday.

I spent maybe two of the hours Saturday in the trees. I saw lots of big fish on beds - all carp. I flipped a creature and threw little short casts with a spinnerbait. I will readily admit I am not a good jungle fisherman. I have always preferrred clear water highland lakes where structure meant bottom contours. Fate rewarded my skill. I caught nothing.

I moved out to points and fought the wind while swimming a grub and dragging a jig. I marked bait fish at 10 to 15 feet and suspended larger fish at 20 to 28 feet. What I did not do was catch anything.

Sunday afternoon I did not tree fish. I threw a blue pearl pepper grub and dragged a june bug fish doctor. Took one dink on the fish doctor and caught two spotted bass on the grub. One of the grub fish was just under and the other was a fat 17". I did have a number of followers on the grub so I kept trying different retrieve speeds as well as stops, starts, etc. Both fish that bit hit the grub when I paused and let it fall a foot or two. The bites felt more like hitting a leaf than strikes. Maybe if I had more time I could have figured out the key.

Not an encouraging post, I know, but maybe the information can be useful.

[Whack'emGood]

Thanks for the report. I can't catch them now either. Fished Saturday afternoon (after all of the Tournaments got off and weren't crowding up the lake anymore) in the KC area. We caught a few shorts and a few keepers, but alot of fish were following the grub all the way back to the boat but not eating it. ????????????????? We didn't know what to do, but just keep throwing and changing speeds and such. It didn't get any better. It seems like they just aren't interested in eating right now. Or maybe they were shellshocked after all of the grubs that they got thrown at them by the Tournament guys all day before we got there?????? Or maybe all of the active fish had been caught and dragged up to the scales already. Anyway, all bites (when they decided to bite--instead of just following) were very light. We fished points and insides of points in spawning coves. Hope my 2 cents helps.

(didn't) Whack'em

[captmac]

I fished the Heartland team derby on Saturday and found the fish at the depths you mentioned and had to resort to Carolina rigging a tube bait to get bit, bad thing it took till noon for our brains to conclude this so it cut deeply into our fishing time. We managed 4 keepers on the shortened day, but you can bet a rig will remain a bit closer to the front of our minds in the future. Keep after em