Fishing Report 4/10

[Phil Lilley]

I was on the water a lot this week and really have caught a variety of fish.

We started the week white bass fishing up above Twin Bridges and caught a lot of whites with some being big ones. The size went down as we fished later in the week. I think the white bass run is about over in the rivers. We looked back in our records for last year and saw that we started catching white bass above Sailboat Bridge on the 14th of April. I think the fishing is better once they move to the main lake than in the spawn. You have to know where to look for them though.

We have done well on crappie this week on or close to the bank. Where are all the small crappie? All we are catching are good keepers up to 14 inches. It worries me a little that we are not catching more small ones which will grow up to be big ones.

We black bass fished a couple of days and did fairly well. We caught our fish on jigs and spinnerbaits. We saw a few beds also with a few small males on the nest. Wont be long till the bass are bedding big time.

Everytime I fish uplake at Twin Bridges the spoonbill snaggers are cleaning limits at the ramp area. We saw one that might have gone 70 lbs.

The catfishing is good around the flats at Sailboat Bridge. The fishermen are fishing very shallow on windy days that the wind is blowing out of the south. There are some good ones being caught up to 30 lbs.