The Upper End On August 3

[rps]

This morning I was on the water when the sky began to lighten. Those first thirty minutes I had two respectable keepers and an almost in the boat without turning on the big motor. All were largemouths and came out of 10 to 20 feet of water. As it became more light, the strikes became pecks or barely there. I caught two more shorts and missed several others by 8:30. I was trying something new to me. I used a football head jig made from a Do It mold that had one of those spring plastic holders. Right now Cabelas is selling the jig heads already made. I added a Yamamoto hula grub in smoke/rootbeer/green/copper. The hook went thru the grub body right at the twin tail and worked well Texposed.

While I was jig fishing, and several times later, I noticed momentary schooling evidence. It never lasted long enough for me to get the boat started and did not seem to repeat in the same places.

At 8:30 I switched to walleye hunting. Caught two spotted bass and a 16 inch walleye while trolling, but the good news was the spoon. Based on something Don House wrote I recently ordered some white jigging spoons. I didn't buy the brand he uses because I can't find them, even on the internet. I bought the free style spoons from BPS. I jigged several of the break on a break spots which have produced walleye when I troll. I caught one small white bass and a 25.25 inch walleye on the spoon. What a hoot!

By 1:00 my forehead was hot enough to fry eggs and I called it quits.

[RedRaider n EagleRock]

This morning I was on the water when the sky began to lighten. Those first thirty minutes I had two respectable keepers and an almost in the boat without turning on the big motor. All were largemouths and came out of 10 to 20 feet of water. As it became more light, the strikes became pecks or barely there. I caught two more shorts and missed several others by 8:30. I was trying something new to me. I used a football head jig made from a Do It mold that had one of those spring plastic holders. Right now Cabelas is selling the jig heads already made. I added a Yamamoto hula grub in smoke/rootbeer/green/copper. The hook went thru the grub body right at the twin tail and worked well Texposed.

While I was jig fishing, and several times later, I noticed momentary schooling evidence. It never lasted long enough for me to get the boat started and did not seem to repeat in the same places.

At 8:30 I switched to walleye hunting. Caught two spotted bass and a 16 inch walleye while trolling, but the good news was the spoon. Based on something Don House wrote I recently ordered some white jigging spoons. I didn't buy the brand he uses because I can't find them, even on the internet. I bought the free style spoons from BPS. I jigged several of the break on a break spots which have produced walleye when I troll. I caught one small white bass and a 25.25 inch walleye on the spoon. What a hoot!

By 1:00 my forehead was hot enough to fry eggs and I called it quits.

RPS,

I noticed alot of dead, floating white bass on Sunday from the MO/AR border to the eagle rock bridge on Sunday. Did you notice them? You whacked them better than I did. Caught one short on a top-water popper. Nice Walleye are you using planer boards? Thanks for the info.

[rps]

Yes I noticed the dead white bass. There were 10 or 12 floating near the flat under the highlines just downstream from Fletchers. Don't know what is targeting them.

As for the bass, I was fishing very familiar areas and made myself not fish topwater. The last two weeks have not been good for topwater for me and as much as I like to fish topwater, I finally have given up on them until it cools a bit.

In answer to your question about walleye, I am not sophisticated enough to use planer boards. I just hold a rod and long line troll using the trollers bible to know bait depth. I use 10 pound Power Pro and can reach 32 feet easily with wallmart available baits like the Norman D22. My go to lures are the Cabelas knockoffs of the reef runners, wiggle warts, and hotntots.

Near noon Sunday I watched an acquaitance of mine fish the timbered flat above Holiday Island with a worm harness rig. How Chuck can do that in trees escapes me. While I was watching he caught 4 walleye, but only one was a keeper. He was still fishing when I went in and he may have had a great day. His fish were in 25 to 27 feet of water. The one I jigged up was at the same depth.

Hope that helps.