Saturday Report

[Champ188]

After working all week on some seemingly good fishing days and staying off the water the holiday weekend before, just had to get out Saturday and give it a go. Donna and I launched a bit after daylight at Big M and found some limited topwater action. Shad and bass boat seemed concentrated in creek mouths on flatter secondary points. An occasional school would come up, but for the most part it was single breakers but a bunch of em in the same areas. Mixed LM and K's. Told Donna it reminded me of that computer game where you try to bonk the mole on the head with a hammer. You stand there on the front deck and wait for one to poke his head up, then fire your topwater at him before he disappears. We caught six or eight that way but no keepers before the sun hit the water and they disappeared. There also seems to be a fair dock bite developing. Drop-shot and shaky head produced two keeper LM's and another keeper K, all in the 3-pound range.

Then came the wave makers in all shapes, forms, varieties, etc. By 10:00 they were out in magnum force all the way from Owl Creek to SK bridge, making it pretty darn impossible to fish any kind of main-lake structure. Felt like there was reason to pursue that dock bite on the deeper docks but nearly every promising dock had a bunch of swimmers/divers on it. Got so bad by 1 p.m. that we said to heck with it and went home.

Bring on fall. Ready to feel that refresing blast of northwest wind off the season's first cold front.

[denjac]

. Ready to feel that refresing blast of northwest wind off the season's first cold front.

Amen brother! Sounds like the top bite hasnt changed much.

[rps]

It hasn't. See my latest post. :-/

[techo]

Counting the days until school starts.

[rps]

You say that like it is a good thing. I know, it empties the lake of rec boaters - a real plus for many of you. For me, it puts me back at work.

[techo]

Sorry RPS! It is bad for business and a few friends, but it does clear the lake up pretty good.