Fishing Report 11/ 30/10

[Mike Worley]

Bass are 10'-30' and are biting on jigs & tube baits on bluff ends. Crank baits are catching good size small mouth bass on bluff wall transitions Wiggle Warts in natural colors fished on light line are working well. Be sure to down size your line and slow down your retrieve. Some really good size walleyes are being caught on live bait & jigging spoons on the same type structure and on the outside of main lake brush piles and drop offs. Water temps are in the upper 50's and suspending stick baits can catch some really good size walleyes and striped bass now. Crappie are hit or miss and biting better when we have a few days of stable weather, they are pretty shallow on those days suspending around wood cover...............................................Mike Worley (ar.walleyes@yahoo.com)

[Martin]

Mike, what is your favorite susp. stickbait ??

[rangerman]

Another week and I'll be around. Hopefully the stickbait bite warms up.

[Mike Worley]

Mike, what is your favorite susp. stickbait ??

I have a few that I really have confidence in. This time of year I prefer a larger (trout) profile stickbait Bass Pro's XPS Profession series suspending minnow in the larger 5" size in "Gold Clown", "Silver Blue" and "Olive Shad" have been good for me as well as Lucky Craft 110 pointers in the "American Shad" color also the Bass Pro XPS suspending 5" Nitro suspending minnow in "Brown Trout", "Green Shad" and Smithwick's Rouge in "Avacoto Shad" . After dark I like to switch to the Bass Pro 5" suspending Nitro series in "Purple Tiger".

[BrianS]

Mike are you cathing any of the smallies in the main lake pockets on windy days? Its time for that to be working.

[Mike Worley]

fished the main lake yesterday with a pretty steady NW wind blowing intill late afternoon. Caught a Smallmouth on a tube jig and a good sized crappie on a powerbait swimbait. The bite was slow for us during the day. Just before dark the wind shifted to SE and we found a few stripers working in a bay. Hooked one on a 5" Gold Clown in less than 10 fow and fought it for about a minute, before it managed to break off. Real strong fish probally in the 30# class. We stayed about 1 hour after dark and could hear the stripers working from time to time but never really got on them before we decided to go in.