Dam Area Report

[Quillback]

Went back again today hoping for another good topwater bite. First thing I ran over to Honey Creek cove where I thought I might see some stripers, didn't see any on top even though there was lots of bait in the cove. Beat the banks in that area with topwaters, did not do well, caught 1/2 dozen total all spots except for one SM and one LM, nothing over 12 inches. Then I went back to one of the coves off Indian Creek that I did well on yesterday, but got zip there. Then headed back into the back end of Indian Creek and caught this nice 17" spot and another that went 14". But still slow, so by then it was 1030 and the sun was overhead and I decided to quit. There are quite a few shad and minnows in the back end of Indian. If I could do it over again, I would have gone to the back end of Indian first thing in the AM.

[jeb]

Thanks for the report, Jeff. I went out from 6-9am this morning in the Avoca cove area. Very little going on. Got only one fish, a 14" spot, and that was not until the sun came up. So tough bite. I'm thinking I'd have been better off out on some of the main lake points right away and wait to go back into the coves until the sun is up good.

Oh well, some days are tougher than others, I guess. And this is a transitional period.

[Quillback]

Yeah must have been a slow day, weather was weird, it was 42 here at the house and most of the way to Lost Bridge, but I noticed at Lost Bridge it was 57. Day before it was 42 at the house, but 37 and foggy at Lost Bridge. Seems the fish prefered cold and foggy.

I saw in the paper that there is a "Spot only" bass tourney next weekend at Beaver out of Prairie Creek. I hope they post the results somewhere, I would like to see what the biggest spot is they catch. I have never seen one over 2.5 lbs. out of Beaver, but there has to be some 4-5 lb. spots out there.

[Stump bumper]

Yeah must have been a slow day, weather was weird, it was 42 here at the house and most of the way to Lost Bridge, but I noticed at Lost Bridge it was 57. Day before it was 42 at the house, but 37 and foggy at Lost Bridge. Seems the fish prefered cold and foggy.

I saw in the paper that there is a "Spot only" bass tourney next weekend at Beaver out of Prairie Creek. I hope they post the results somewhere, I would like to see what the biggest spot is they catch. I have never seen one over 2.5 lbs. out of Beaver, but there has to be some 4-5 lb. spots out there.

My PB spot out of Beaver was 4.5lbs and I have caught serveral 4lbs but during a tounament the biggest spot I have wieghed is 3lbs. That should be fun though, I have found that the larger spots don't school like the smaller spots, all big spots have come from ceder trees on drop shots or spoons in the thick of the trees. I did run into a few schools of 2lb spots last week that when I caught one on a point the other others would follow to the boat, but I think the wind was causing them to gang up on the points and after the wind stoped they probally went thier own ways.

JMO, but I think the smaller fish need to hang together and larger fish are able to stake out a territory and defend it.