Report From Yesterday

[Crappie5]

I started out yesterday on the water at 5:00 am looking for the top water bite. Babler was right there was a boat on every point I tried to fish. I guess you need to get there at 4:00 to get on a good point. I managed 8 top water fish, 2 on a spook and the rest on a fin. Bill has me hooked on the red fin. None of the top water fish had any size just a lot of fun. I did have one LM on that threw the fin at the boat that would have went 3lbs or so. My top water bite quit at 7:30 and i went straight to drop shotting crawlers. Bill Babler stopped by and I had caught around 20 fish at that time mostly on crawlers and a handful on a watermelon candy 4" worm. Babler had 20 on the topwater bite at that time. I found some large schools of what I thougt were shad but every time I dropped a crawler I caught a 6"-8" bass. I caught the bigger fish on the watermelon candy worm dropping it through these schools and the larger K's were there. I guess the little ones would just eat up the crawler before it could get to the larger ones. I ended the day at 1:00 after the joy riders ran me off. 30 fish total with 5 keepers. One 16" Kentucky and one 16-1/2 LM were the biggest.

[Crappie5]

I forgot to mention that most all the drop shot fish yesterday were suspended. I stayed in 40'-50' of water and the fish were 15' down at least while it stayed cloudy. After the sun came out the fish went to 25'. I never caught any off the bottom. I would say later in the day they finally moved to the bottom.

[Fishrman]

Hey Crappie,

Were you fishing channel swings and bluff ends also? I am headed down after summer school today to drop shot a little. How bad is it from say 3 pm until dark? The other day I caught most of my fish off of flat points, are they moving away from that? Thanks

EW

[Crappie5]

Fishrman, mostly chanel swings and some bluff ends. I'm not too sure about after 3:00 pm I have been done and home before 3:00. I did not find any fish on the flat points.

[Fishrman]

I kind of goofed my message Crappie. I meant to type how was the boat traffic after 3 pm? Are there a lot of vacationing people down right now? Thanks

[Whack'emGood]

Fishrman,

We were down yesterday late afternoon/evening and it was like a ghost town compared to the typical weekend afternoon/evening crowd. Remember though, that is relative to what it is on the weekend. There were some, but it wasn't bad enough to aggravate. Hope this info helps.

Whack'em

[Fishrman]

Thanks Whack

It got pretty bad at around 10:30 on Sat. May just wait and head down about 4 pm, may be better for me to do that. Thanks for the night report, don't get to do as much as I used to, glad to hear you caught some.

EW