Baxter to Joe Bald

[Steve Smith]

My buddy and I put in about 5:30 Saturday morning out of Baxter, and headed towards the point between Wolfpen hollows. We expected to see some spots surfacing, but saw very little activity. Picked up clouds of shad 30 feet down suspended and dropped structure spoons just below them. We caught a 17 and a 15 inch Kentucky almost immediately, and missed a half dozen or so others. One really good fish threw the spoon just before we could get a look at it. There were several boats fishing the main channel, but we didn’t notice many nets being dipped. We got surveyed by an MDC agent about 9:30 with the usual fish count, specie, zip code, etc type questions. He said no one except us had reported any fish being caught. By this time, the shad had disappeared, so we moved to the long point adjacent to Point 16. We picked up a few spots with drop shotting Razor Worms, but nothing to write home about. We finished the morning fishing the bluffs down from Goat Island and landing another keeper spot. By 11:00, the water was churning with ski boats so we called it a day.