Bs Report-08/12-13-----tough

[rangerman]

Well boyz,

I fished my butt off the last 2 days down there, and I came to one conclusion.....I don't know if anyone else believes in it or not, but I absolutely do, and it has effected me the last couple of days as it has you guys apparently........

The high pressure system that came through monday kind of killed things. High bluebird skies, no clouds and no wind. I know better than to fish under these conditions. The moon not the best neither. We need a storm to come through BAD.

08/12---we fished hard and managed 3 keeper eyes best only 19 inches and about 8 or 9 other shorts. Caught nothing trolling. Ended up pulling 1 1/2 ounce bottom bouncers with a gold northland spinner/crawler harness.

Like you guys said, No whites on the surface and I didn't even see a kentucky chasing shad.

08/13----they changed from wanting a gold to silver spinner and caught 8 or 9 more with 1 keeper. Only fished a half day before coming home.

Still did not see any whites around the area and only a couple of kentuckies on the surface.

I found lots of fish around Lead Hill, they just didn't want to eat. I even took a 1/4 ounce silver jig head tipped with a crawler and dropped it on top of them. turned the sensitivity up on the LCX113 and watched as the jig fell to them. They would obviously nose up to it and swim off. I did manage to aggeravate a couple into grabbing it. Tough, tough conditions for walleye fishing. Its sounds a if they were bitiing really well up until sunday or so. Oh well, we can't control mother nature.....Yet.

Good luck ya'll,

Jason

[stone9-7=2]

Sorry to hear that Jason. Better luck next time... Hey you didn't get skunked anyway.

4 Wallys are better than no Wallys.

[Sam]

We just got back from fishing the area just below K Dock, my 5th trip there in two weeks. We fished from 6 p.m. until dark, then came home.

Total, for two guys, was 18 white bass, 4 big perch, and 5 largemouths (four undersize and one 17"). We were white bass fishing with Roostertails in the main channel and on the edge of flats. We're scoping white bass and 1" shad real thick for a half mile in there.

What I can't figure is why the white bass won't bite unless they're boiling on top. We threw into about 10 good surface boils, and that's how we caught all the whites. In between, though we can scope them, they just won't bite. I don't understand that.

[rangerman]

Just happy to be fishing. The 4 kept were good eating size though. That a plus.

Sam did you try trolling up around K dock for walleye at all lately?

[Sam]

Sam did you try trolling up around K dock for walleye at all lately?

I've made 5 trips out of K Dock in the last two weeks, and they started out as walleye trips. The first couple of times we did some trolling on the edges of Mincy and Hogan flats. We didn't do any good.

Then the trips got hijacked by those surfacing white bass. It's hard for me to fish for something I can't find when other fish are boiling all over the place. So lately we've been getting on the water about 6 p.m. and chasing white bass boils 'til dark.

Walleyes are more-or-less mythical fish for me, with rare exceptions.

[Sam]

I just got back from K Dock. The whites have moved away from that stretch just past the first bend below K Dock where we've been catching them for a couple of weeks. I didn't catch any, see any boils, or see any on the scope - and they were real thick in there on previous trips.

Thought I ought to get back to walleyes - so I spent my time trolling a deep-running plug in 20-25 feet of water along the edges of flats in that same area. I caught one short walleye and a whole bunch of bass - including three largemouths over 17"! I threw 'em all back - and the next time you bass guys catch them, please tell 'em to leave a feller alone when he's trying to catch supper.

Back at the ramp, I was talking with a guy who'd just been out joy-riding with his wife. He said they saw white bass boiling in an area the size of a football field, up where the power line crosses the lake above Snapp Holler. Said he and his wife kept hearing "waterfalls" for a long time and they were trying to figure out what they were hearing, before they saw the fish. That figures - I went down the lake when I shoulda gone up the lake. Next time.

[crappiefisherman]

Hes tellin the truth.The waters a little cooler up that way.Crappie are to be found in that area to.Monday I saw several large schools of whites.One school was of larger, not huge , but larger fish.Didnt chase them as I just couldnt leave the crappie alone.And it does sound like waterfalls honest