Beaver 3-31-10

[nwaoutdoorsman]

I was able to get out for awhile today. It was absolutely beautiful! All except the wind, which was brutal. Had a decent day with several fish and enough keepers for a limit. Caught fish on a jerkbait, wiggle wart and a couple on a spinnerbait. Probably threw the spinnerbait to much and the jerkbait not enough, but I love to throw a blade and with all the wind I couldn't stop. Best bite was definitely the jerkbait. Wiggle wart produced my best fish which would have went close to 4lbs. Fished from Ventris to Horseshoe Bend. Water temps around Ventris were 51-53 this morning and around Horseshoe it was 55-57 this afternoon. These warm days and especially these warmer nights are gonna turn things on in a hurry. I hope to get out tomorrow afternoon, Friday and this weekend. I'm really looking forward to each day progressing. I fished channel swings and bluff ends mostly. Fished a couple banks leading into spawning coves, but no backends. I'll be checking those out in the next few days and I think they'll start producing if they're not already. Now, I just have to decide where to go the next few days. I'm thinking I'll head down around Hickory Creek a day and I wanna go to Rocky Branch area a day. Looking forward to it. Hope everyone gets to go in the beautiful weather. Just make sure you have a full charge on those batteries cause your gonna need 'em. Good luck!

[jeb]

I was out yesterday from about sunup to 1pm. Never left the Prarie Creek area. Didn't fish much main lake stuff. Figured they'd be headed into the coves. I caught my 3 bass (2 legal K's, one short LM) all up shallow on Warts. Less than 5' of water for all of them. Caught a big white too, but I don't really count that. I also fished stick baits, grubs and some lipless cranks, but they did not payoff for me.

Trolling motor was sure running hard in all that wind! Water temps were from 49-53.

[Quillback]

Thanks for the reports, glad to hear they are turning on!