Long Creek To Point 5 Report

[Don House]

Spent a nice relaxing full day on the water with just one client yesterday. We started at Happy Hollow across from B/C and started hopping main lake points with no help or hits. Moved our way into the creek arms and Yes they are still there. Found some really nice smallies about 1/2 way back into the creek arms. Most came on flats in the 15 - 25 feet range. Most fish just smashed the Purple Flash and Brown Football Jig and made it easy to tell the bite. Total of 6 really nice keeper smallies in 4 hours for the morning, best 5 weight 16 - 18 pounds.

Once the wind started to pickup that bite really died. We moved back out to the main lake points with wind really blowning hard on them. Worked with small War Eagle Green Ghost spinner bugs, had two small spots, changed over to a 5" grub in Watermelon and red flakes and the catching started again. All of these fish came not on the points but on the really windy flats right before the points. All of these fish where just small spots with a few 15" spots in the mix. Still alot of fun.

Had a wild ideal to moved back into the creek arms and fished the wind blown pockets or cuts in the 5 - 15 foot range started throwing a 1/2 Fat Free Shad and Bomber Fat A's in Green Ghost and Citrus Orange Colors, really started to get on them again most where fat spots but had two or three really nice Blacks mixed in to boot. Finally stopped just before the down pour came in at 3:00pm, all in all another great day on the water. You Gotta Love this Job!!!

Good Fishing Everyone

Capt. Don

[captmac]

Great report as usual, also was nice to meet you in person last week. On the Shell Knob ramp in the fog. Always neat to put faces with names,

[skeeterp]

Great report as usual, also was nice to meet you in person last week. On the Shell Knob ramp in the fog. Always neat to put faces with names,

Well NitroNick and I picked a great day to go to the rock. We put in at Viola (only boat there..awesome) right before daylight. We started fishing the bluff on the right downstream from Viola. Nitro caught several good fish on chug bug and I caught several throwing a McCutchen spinnerbait white/chartreuse. We had 16,17, 19 1/2 fish in first 20 minutes. We caught about 15 topwater fish and 7-8 spinnerbait fish total. We ran to Big M, flipped docks, caught several on jig, hula grub, gitzit. We then started point hopping with 5/8 FB jig, didn't seem to matter what color combo, the fishing were killing the FB jig from about 2-5 p.m. on points between Big M and Kings River. We ended the day with 47 fish caught, 10 over 15 inches, the one nice largemouth that went 19 1/2 inches. We missed several fish on topwater and several on FB jig. I also threw swimbait, had some hits, never hooked up. I've attached a few pics. We only saw 3 boats all day, awesome day on the Rock.

[techo]

Sweet day! I have a Doc appointment or I would be at a dock right now. Nice looking fish for sure.

[FishinCricket]

Well NitroNick and I picked a great day to go to the rock. We put in at Viola (only boat there..awesome) right before daylight. We started fishing the bluff on the right downstream from Viola. Nitro caught several good fish on chug bug and I caught several throwing a McCutchen spinnerbait white/chartreuse. We had 16,17, 19 1/2 fish in first 20 minutes. We caught about 15 topwater fish and 7-8 spinnerbait fish total. We ran to Big M, flipped docks, caught several on jig, hula grub, gitzit. We then started point hopping with 5/8 FB jig, didn't seem to matter what color combo, the fishing were killing the FB jig from about 2-5 p.m. on points between Big M and Kings River. We ended the day with 47 fish caught, 10 over 15 inches, the one nice largemouth that went 19 1/2 inches. We missed several fish on topwater and several on FB jig. I also threw swimbait, had some hits, never hooked up. I've attached a few pics. We only saw 3 boats all day, awesome day on the Rock.

Awesome report.. And look, you guys even have on matching outfits! How quaint....

What kinda topwater were you using?

[skeeterp]

Sweet day! I have a Doc appointment or I would be at a dock right now. Nice looking fish for sure.

yeh the matching shirts...nice touch huh? Thats what happens when you get the free shirt offer from Flueger and you tell your buddy about it. All of our topwater fish came on chug bug. I did throw a gunfish and caught one on it and a couple of other blow ups. Also threw buzz bait, nothing on it.

[Spinnaker]

I want to come down in early or mid Nov. I understand there is a pro tourney in early Nov. so I want to avoid that time. Do you think if I get down there around Monday the 9th of Nov. the bass will be OK after the tourney ruckus?

[Whack'emGood]

The bass will be fine. Tourneys really don't affect them enough to notice. They're used to it-- and it's a big lake. Plenty of bass for everyone to catch at all times. And... they will be biting good when you get here... you can count on it!

Whack'em

[Don House]

I want to come down in early or mid Nov. I understand there is a pro tourney in early Nov. so I want to avoid that time. Do you think if I get down there around Monday the 9th of Nov. the bass will be OK after the tourney ruckus?

Whack is right this is a really big lake with lots of fish for everyone! Biggest issue is trying to find a spot to fish with some of the tournaments. But you should be just fine. Most will run up the rivers only a few will stay on the main lake. Deep Water bite just has not really came to life this year, But it will and Nov will be a great start to the feeding frenzey to prepare these Bass for the cold months to come. Matter of fact it is one of my favorite times of the year, not very much traffic and alot of water to choose from. The fish will start to really move into the creek arms chasing shad I'm hopeing for some schooling action by then. Here is a little trick, watch for the white seagulls they are a dead give away for schooling shad! Spoons in all white color and the sizes of 1/2 and 3/4 ounce should really take off around then. Just keep checking back on this great site for more information, there are alot of really good fisherman on here that don't mind to share information. Come on down and have some fun!

Good Fishing

Capt. Don

[Champ188]

The only early November pro tournament that I know of is Central Pro-Am, which will be Nov. 1-2. In all likelihood, probably won't be more than 60 boats in it. Shouldn't crowd the lake at all.