Nada This Morning

[glennL]

Heard how great the fishing was "yesterday". Got out early, before sun up. Threw a spinner bait, red fin, crankbait, wiggle wart, crayfish colored jig on a shaky head, fished pebble shoreline, pebble banks and 45 degree chunck. NADA. Anyone doing anything? Any suggestions, besides patience? Down on white section near Viney Creek.

[Bill Babler]

Guided that area yesterday, and it was good.

Yesterday was not a spinnerbait day, with high blue and no breeze. Water up there is mighty clear. Had about 30 fish with 10 to 15 keeps, 2 LM on a fin on the shady front corners of channel swing deep docks early. Most fish eiher came on a dropshot or a jig. Most on the dropshot. 45 to 60 ft. on either the midlake humps up there or the flat gravel rolloffs where the flats dump into the channel.

Had several very nice K's suupended just off the rolloffs, saw them on the electronics and dropped to them, and they charged it. 45 feet deep over 60ft.

Using eiher a Yamamoto purple/brown 4in. cuttail or a Chomper purple/brown 5 in laminated. Also a several nice fish on a 1/2 oz white spoon, same area. Jig fish were on a PigSticker 5/8th. purple/brown with a Chompers Watermellon Candy twin tail. Did run into some trouble up there with bluegills out on those flats to 50ft. deep. They were spitting up 1/2 in green crawfish. Lots of gills on the flats, they were knocking heck out of the spoon, and just would not leave the jig alone. They thumped and thumped on it. We had to put it down, they were driving us crazy. Fish are really not ganged up on any of those deep spots, probably fished at least 15 locations in 6 hrs.

Hope this helps.

[glennL]

Heading back out this afternoon. Thank you for the information.

Of course now it's windy and overcast, with a chance of rain. Bill, do you think the same pattern or will they be on the move now that conditions different?

[Bill Babler]

With the blending of the upper thermocline right now, it is possible for those rascules to be anywhere, from on the bank to 60ft.

We worked our tails off today early and really struggled on the flat slick water. Soon as it was time to go in the wind started and we started wacking nice keepers on a jig and a blade.

Just have to go with the conditions. Fish may not bite early and may only bite when the correct conditions hit.

Had one of the best clients I have ever had in the boat today, not a ton of fish but some really nice quality on our keepers. We could have weighed in a nice 14 to 15 pound bag. I don't care who you are right now, in 4 hrs. that is a nice sack of fish. If we would have had all day we might have caught a kicker once the wind blew in big time.

[glennL]

Thanks Bill. Found them Sunday AM, just when we had to leave.

Found bass in 35-50' water along wind swepted high rock cliffs. It was blowing hard and drifted along the cliff rock. Dragged a grape and brown 6" worm and started catching. Nothing too big too. Had one big one take my line down, bent pole to almost breaking point and must have taken me under a tree, then Snapped the line. I'll have to get him next year, as I shut the place and boat down for the winter. See ya all next spring. Good luck.