High Skys = Few Fish

[GREENTRITON]

Was down at aunts creek yesterday, caught a few. I sure do much better with wind and rain, THe high skys just kills my blade fishing. WE did catch a few on the grub but no size. I always catch my bigger bass on a blade or crankbait with cloud cover. Anyone else have this problem..HIGH skys makes for a nice boat ride, but is not good for my fishing.. There was a boat on all points sat at aunts creek, I might have to start putting in at baxter to get away from the crowd..

[techo]

Same story in our boat. Fatboy posted that there was a tournament out of Aunt's Creek yesterday. There have been a lot more boats this year around there period! Cape Fair area was even more crowded. I am thinking about Bull Shoals!

[Bill Babler]

Yes, Friday was a very hard day. You had to chase the wind. I still stunk it up with High Prussure, High Skys and very clear water in the Kimberling to Dam area. Saturday was a completely different deal.

Annual Spring Aunts Creek derby is going on. Best Bag of 6 close to 22 pounds. Really great day. We had a lot of fish on Saturday, but not a bag of those.

[jay bird]

Fished a small turney out of Eagle Rock and only had one keeper all day, plenty of short fish, but when we got back to the ramp we found that we just fished the worng way. Out of just six boats we had to bags over 18 pounds and one 7 1/2 pound pig. Crankbaits on secondary point seemed to be the ticket.

[Catchabiggen]

I fished the Aunts Creek derby and skunked out. Had a few keepers on thursday in Little Indian on the stick and a few more on friday out of the lower James on a spinnerbait. Some of that water in lower James looked as nasty as I've ever seen it. Saturday I ran up the Kings past Jackie Hollow and worked my way back. Its was so crowded up there I couldn't hardly find a place to fish and when I finally did I had a pontoon boat full of senior citizens pull in about 50ft in front of me and drop lines. I couldn't believe it. I came back down and couldn't get anything going in the way back either. All weekend we threw jigs, rogues, pointers, rebels, wiggle warts, spinnerbaits, and grubs on about 25 different spots and went through several shorts but no keepers. Whats up with the chunks of moss floating up from the bottom? The lake looks like it is turning over in some parts - ?

[GREENTRITON]

Big time trouble with moss, Wiggle wart comes back just caked in moss. Even throwing the grub I still get moss.. Goes back to my high sky problem, I do much better with clouds and rain. I don't mind throwing the spinnerbait, keep it just above the moss....

[Sam]

I caught a couple of 14" bass while trying to crappie fish in the Long Creek arm the other day. They both had multiple hook-holes in their lips, and I counted EIGHT holes in one fish. Wow, you bass guys are working those young'uns over good, huh? You could attach tags and leave notes for each other.

That's one thing about crappie - the first time a 10"+ one gets caught is the last time he gets caught, 'cause his next stop is next to the fried 'taters.

[RogueAgent]

We got on the water around 3pm on Sunday and fished till dark. Put in at Aunt's and hit some secondary points with the fish doctor and wiggle wart = nothing but clear water and snot grass. Motored over to the island around point 10 and got on a nice pattern with a camo colored sassy shad on a 1/16th oz jig head. Three of us boated over 20 in the remaining daylight. Had 6 keeper whites and one keeper toad kentucky which was released. Several 9 to 13 inch smallies were boated too. Fish were chasing shad and busting the surface from 10ft to shore. Had a blast. Had to fish just fast enought to make the tail wiggle - they hammered it.