Heading Out To Loto Memorial Day Weekend

[Deep-V-Fisher]

Best of luck to all who are also. I know we slay them every year around this time after spawn.

[Dutch]

Anyone going to LOZ on a holiday weekend has more guts than I do.

[fishinwrench]

Anyone going to LOZ on a holiday weekend has more guts than I do.

Yeah it's pretty nuts in the mid-lake area, and around the tourist hotspots.....but away from that fish are being caught, and plenty of them !

[laker67]

Drive across the glaize bridge on a holiday weekend. It will be impossible to count the number of boats before you travel across the bridge. Looking both directions, from the bridge, you are only talking about being able to see .5 to .75 mile of lake. There will be at least 200 boats at any given time during mid day and afternoon. Like FW said, fish are still being caught. Be cautious if you fish LOZ on a holiday weekend, and good luck.

[Deep-V-Fisher]

This weekend was close to a total bust. Mind you we are located on one of the busier parts of the lake and other than morning fishing..... the water is just not friendly at all. I could not believe the amount of debris in the lake this year. We bent the hell out of our prop on sunday.... luckily we were able to get the boat home. Caught a total of 4 bass all of which were 2lbs and under and not worth taking pics. For the past 5 years we have caught so many fish over Memorial Day weekend it was close to unbelievable. This year we threw everything at them and came up skunked. We ended up catching our 4 fish trolling with crank baits at about 10ft on inner cove points. Our arms were tired of casting and retrieving for 3 days and coming up with nothing.

[Ryno]

I'm glad i'm not the only one that had trouble catching fish. We just fished on Monday a.m., mid-lake, weather scared of many of the boaters, and the fish. Headed back down for Thursday and Friday there's only one way our luck could go. Hey Deep-V, the water is a ton more muddy right now, what are your thoughts? think that could of hurt us.

[Deep-V-Fisher]

I'm glad i'm not the only one that had trouble catching fish. We just fished on Monday a.m., mid-lake, weather scared of many of the boaters, and the fish. Headed back down for Thursday and Friday there's only one way our luck could go. Hey Deep-V, the water is a ton more muddy right now, what are your thoughts? think that could of hurt us.

Yep it is more murky than i have ever seen it... i hear its due to the flooding of the upper river but who knows.

[405z06]

We fished most of the day Friday and caught mostly male dinks, with the exception of a big, spawned-out female (4lbs) caught at the end of the day. Saturday we didn't fish much, but in the few hours we did, we caught 1 small fish between the 2 of us. Ugh!

Then something strange happened on Sunday: we were having another tough day, fishing 12-15 ft of water off a main lake point (gutsy on the holiday weekend, I know!). This point is a traditionally strong post-spawn spot. Nothing.

As we pulled up the trolling motor, my fishing partner started digging around for a jig to put on. While he was finding what he wanted the waves pushed us up shallow on the point, close to the seawall. I decided to throw out my wiggle wart parallel to the wall and BAM!, 1st cast, caught a nice big female. We kind of looked at each other, like "what is this?". The wiggle wart bite was about 4 weeks ago according to conventional wisdom. We decided to give the points a try up shallow w/ crankbaits. The rest of the day we only threw Wiggle Warts. We had the best luck on main lake points that had seawalls. Some secondary points produced, too.

There were still a lot of small males being caught with this pattern, and quite a few Kentucky's that seemed to be spawning, too, but we were also able to catch many nice females that been elusive up to that point. The small, male largemouth and the kentuckys seemed to be very shallow, in 1-2 ft of water, and the females seemed to be a bit deeper at 3-4 ft. It saved what would have been a disappointing fishing trip.

We were fishing in between the 25MM and 31MM.

[Deep-V-Fisher]

We fished most of the day Friday and caught mostly male dinks, with the exception of a big, spawned-out female (4lbs) caught at the end of the day. Saturday we didn't fish much, but in the few hours we did, we caught 1 small fish between the 2 of us. Ugh!

Then something strange happened on Sunday: we were having another tough day, fishing 12-15 ft of water off a main lake point (gutsy on the holiday weekend, I know!). This point is a traditionally strong post-spawn spot. Nothing.

As we pulled up the trolling motor, my fishing partner started digging around for a jig to put on. While he was finding what he wanted the waves pushed us up shallow on the point, close to the seawall. I decided to throw out my wiggle wart parallel to the wall and BAM!, 1st cast, caught a nice big female. We kind of looked at each other, like "what is this?". The wiggle wart bite was about 4 weeks ago according to conventional wisdom. We decided to give the points a try up shallow w/ crankbaits. The rest of the day we only threw Wiggle Warts. We had the best luck on main lake points that had seawalls. Some secondary points produced, too.

There were still a lot of small males being caught with this pattern, and quite a few Kentucky's that seemed to be spawning, too, but we were also able to catch many nice females that been elusive up to that point. The small, male largemouth and the kentuckys seemed to be very shallow, in 1-2 ft of water, and the females seemed to be a bit deeper at 3-4 ft. It saved what would have been a disappointing fishing trip.

We were fishing in between the 25MM and 31MM.

Cool good for you guys.