Dam Area/long Creek Report

[abkeenan]

4/8-4/10 2011

Fished Friday evening through Sunday afternoon. Friday evening was only able to get out around 4-dark. Fished Jakes Branch with little success on a blue bandit mcstick, just a few shorts on a pea gravel secondary point with some timber on it. Did see a pod of 8-10 bass some of which looked to be 3-5 lbs in a pocket in about 15 feet of water about 2-3 feet under the surface just kinda hovering there. Ive never seen that before, they were just sitting there all of them in about a 15 foot square of water. Threw the mcstick in the middle of them but they just all scattered and I had no takers. Disappointing as I thought for sure one would take the bait. Anyhow, threw the wart for a bit as the sun was setting and only managed 3 shorts all on bluff end transitions.

Saturday fished brushy creek starting around 8AM and only could manage 2 shorts and 1 18"LM on a norman flake mcstick. After 2-3 hours switched over to crappie fishing and caught around 25 crappie 8 of which kept on the same locations I mentioned 3 weeks ago. Brush or laydowns extending from the bank into the water preferably on steeper rock banks using all chartreuse swimming minnows (from Lilleys Landing) and crystal swimming minnows.

Sunday started fishing around 730AM further down long creek near Ark/Mo border but only had a few shorts on the norman flake and blue bandit mcstick. No takers on the wart at all. After about 2 hours of minimal success went back to brushy for more crappie action and they were hot. Again same locations, tying up to trees near the ideal locations and throwing repeatedly to them in the laydowns/brush piles. Used smoke swimming minnows on 1/32 or 1/16 unpainted jighead worked as slowly as possible, just to make that tail wiggle and this time we just hammered them. Caught around 40 crappie between my dad and I but only 10 keepers, a few real nice 13"ers. Caught what seemed to be a million 8 inchers. After hitting our 2 honey holes we just kinda let the wind blow us out towards the mouth of brushy hitting the bank with the smoke minnow. Caught some more crappie and around 15 bass mixed in, bass were anywhere from 6 inches,4 or 5 13-14 inchers to 2 of them 15-16" Kentuckys. Had a ball on the ultra light stuff with them. Bass were released swimming....crappie were not so fortunate. For you crappie guys get out there they are bitting good.

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Good Luck out there-

Brett