Joe Bald to Campbell Point

[Fishin' Freak]

Two of us hit the water around 5:30 this morning at Joe Bald and headed up past point 16 to the flats that Bill Babler had mentioned to me. We saw a ton of surface activity but we could only convince one nice keeper smallie and one spot to hit. We did have one nice fish blow up and miss a Pop R but we chased surfacing fish for about two hours and could not get them to hit anything--and we tried alot of different lures. We then went up the lake towards point 20 fishing points and expermenting with the drop shot rig. The two of us are new to drop shotting and were looking to get a feel for it. We ended up catching some spots on pea gravel points between 22 and 35 feet of water on Zoom cinnamon purple finesse worms. We only caught one around timber (which was not on a pea gravel point) but we were able to pull 4 off of one point. We caught 6 total spots but only one spot was keeper size and we missed a few as well. We didn't start hitting the pea gravel points (which were the key) till around 8-8:30 which may have been to late and by 9:30 things had pretty much shut down and the boat traffic was picking up. We are headed out again tonight or tomorrow early so I will report more then.

[Fishin' Freak]

Fishing Sunday a.m. was a bit tougher. Saw a lot of boats out and about but not a lot of guys catching much. We managed three spots in four hours and we missed a few. We hit about 10 different areas but we have to spend to much time searching for fish. As I have mentioned before--I am new to drop shotting and I can tell real quick that my Lowrance X49 isn't going to get the job done. I will be upgrading real soon. What are your guys thoughts on the Lowrance X135?