Weekend Report

[abbfish]

Fished for bass for a few hours on Friday and again on Saturday with only one short bass per day. Mainly fished mainlake areas. Got out early on Sunday and caught 15 on a crankbait within a couple hours way back up the creek. Seems like if I get lucky and figure something out, then it's time to head back to STL. The weather was awesome and I really haven't ever used a crankbait much, so I don't have a lot of confidence in how to use them correctly. I only lost bait one to the brush. It'll probably be early spring before I can get back down there:(

[Mike Worley]

Fished for bass for a few hours on Friday and again on Saturday with only one short bass per day. Mainly fished mainlake areas. Got out early on Sunday and caught 15 on a crankbait within a couple hours way back up the creek. Seems like if I get lucky and figure something out, then it's time to head back to STL. The weather was awesome and I really haven't ever used a crankbait much, so I don't have a lot of confidence in how to use them correctly. I only lost bait one to the brush. It'll probably be early spring before I can get back down there:

I have been having at least fair to good catches for the last few weeks. Some days the shad & fish are in the back of the creeks and some days they aren't. The patterns that are working for me are mainly spoons with crank baits also working on some days in the back of the creeks in about 20-30fow. The most consident bite has been main lake bluffs and bluff ends in 35-65fow on spoons and also split shotting nightcrawlers. I'm mostly catching all species of black bass and crappies with a few walleyes . The bass and crappies are real decent sized fish with a keeper walleye about 1 in 4.