Saturday Morning Report

[rps]

I fished early Saturday with mixed results. The topwater bite was minimal - four short bass, two perch, and two small white bass. I caught one nice keeper on a jig/lizard from 20 feet. I had another pickup but missed that fish. How do you miss a fish that is carrying your jig rigged plastic around? After the sun came out I had no more bites on the jig.

I did some scouting and found schools of fish hanging in 28 to 40 feet of water just off the breakpoints where flats fell into the channel. These schools did not want my spoon so I started to troll flat edges. I caught three more short bass and two very large white bass. No walleye. The white bass were both up on the flats in 26 feet of water or so. Martins post suggests I should have spent more time up on the flat instead of working the edge.

Boat traffic became intense by noon.

I kept the two whites but returned all else. If you take the red meat off white bass or stripers, the remaining fillet is very good in fishburgers.

[Martin]

rps.... Scott got one 20" keeper walleye and 2 shorts in the upper lake yesterday morning. He was trolling and had the keeper and a short right off the bat at about 6:40 a.m. Heck, I didn't even go out until almost 8:00. Lazy I guess. lol