Sunday Monday Report

[steveearle]

Drug the boat down and fished with a buddy on Sunday and Monday. Launched at State Park Sunday @ 8:30 and headed toward Long Creek. We got 3 bites all day-2 chunk spots and a keeper largemouth....the 3 weighed about 8 lbs. Funny story though.....got up around Long Creek Marina and there was one local in a green/silver Champion on the other side of the lake....he starts idling up the middle, sees us catch a nice spot, and just starts lurking toward where we caught it and as we go around the point, I look back and he is 75 yards behind us, gets right in our track, "beep,beep GPS waypoint saved, and then idles back to the other side of the lake and just sits there. I guess he thought we were big guns b/c we had a friend's shiny red Ranger that looked similar to 125 other boats down there....

Launched at Shell Knob ramp on Monday morning and ran the mouth of both rivers...Got 7 bites...keeper spot, keeper LM, short LM, 2 walleye (17.5" and 20") and lost 2 other bites (I'm pretty sure they were walleye also).

Caught all of our fish on the 5" XPS grub in smoke/purple on a 1/4 oz jighead..They wanted it dragged on the bottom (almost like a split shot/C-Rig)...very light bite, and then came in like a gallon ZipLock full of water...Fish were on the roll offs on the side of gravel point very near the channel....

BTW, FLW guys were fine....polite, professional, and curteous....Can't say the same about that tool of a local (Does not really matter 'cause I won't be back for a while and the spot he marked is, maybe, the most obvious grub bank in the entire long creek arm of the lake)...

[techo]

It is great to see fishing reports starting to come in again. We can only beat the rod, reel and line questions to death for so long! Sounds like a successful day to me!

[Jason Essary]

I agree Techo, dont forget stickbait color and old and new wiggle warts.....Lets just go fishing, and let the fish decide.