Fishing Report

[mrgungho]

Got on the water around 8:30AM on Saturday and fished till just after the rain started about 6PM or so. The water was crazy on the main lake..whitecaps and some 3 or 4 foot waves. Worst I've ever seen on Bull Shoals...maybe the worst I've fished anywhere.

Anyways, made our way up and down a couple times and hit the coves. Had lots of success back in the "buck brush" as we call it from about 9' down to 2' feet of water. Caught 7 keepers including a 3.5 and a 3lb largemouth, a couple 14" Kentuckys too. We were both using white spinnerbaits, double willow, 1/2 oz. I was Sloooowww rolling and my buddy was fishing medium speed and we both caught the same amount of fish but mine were all bigger.

Water made it up to 53 degrees in some of the more stained areas. We caught a few bass out of water that we would normally not even try in because it was so stained. Every cove or small creek arm we went in to was the same story..shut down the motor at about 14 feet, fish/troll in to the back of the cove and fish the brushy cover. I caught the biggest one in about 8' of water. We would catch one or two at each hole and then move on down to the next place and do it again.

I can't wait for this week full of 70 plus degree days. I wish I could fish during the week, but it'll be this Saturday before I can get out there again. Seems like the white spinner with maybe a hair of chartruese in it is working at several different lakes right now.

On a side note I caught about a 2.5 pound white bass in a lake cove on that big ole spinnerbait...that was a first.

Well good luck if you get out there....try slow rolling a spinner in some places like I just described and you'll be sure to catch a few.

(I'll try to post some pics as soon as I get them out of the camera!)