Bull Shoals 04/17/2011

[BrianS]

Sunday we won the Joe Bass tournament out of Theodosia with 16.07 lbs and had big bass with a 4.92. We are catching most of our fish on hula grubs and carolina rigs. Secondary points with ditches or "guts" seem to produce the best fish with alot of pea gravel. We are keeping the boat in around 20-25 ft of water. The better fish are coming from deeper water now. The fish up shallow are the smaller bucks. In the real clear water a 4 ft leader on the carolina rig works best. I am using a 3/4 to 1 oz egg sinker. Natural colors seem to work best with the lizards and french fry worms.

Tight lines

B

[rps]

  On 4/19/2011 at 2:44 PM, BrianS said:

Sunday we won the Joe Bass tournament out of Theodosia with 16.07 lbs and had big bass with a 4.92. We are catching most of our fish on hula grubs and carolina rigs. Secondary points with ditches or "guts" seem to produce the best fish with alot of pea gravel. We are keeping the boat in around 20-25 ft of water. The better fish are coming from deeper water now. The fish up shallow are the smaller bucks. In the real clear water a 4 ft leader on the carolina rig works best. I am using a 3/4 to 1 oz egg sinker. Natural colors seem to work best with the lizards and french fry worms.

Tight lines

B

A gracious and excellent report. Thankyou.

[abbfish]

Congrats! I wasn't in the tournament, but did fish on Sunday until about 1:30. I must have been fishing too shallow, because most of the fish I caught were shorts, with very few keepers. I've always wanted to take a week of vacation in the spring and fish for bass and I finally got to last week. I fished from 4/9-4/17 and I thought it would be a good week, since it led up to a full moon. It was windy 8 out of 9 days. I had 2 good days (4/10 and 4/15), both before a storm front blew later in the evening. The rest of the time I was catching shorts. I thought I could fish shallow if I was hitting the wind blown banks, plus it's springtime. I used grubs, hula grubs, and jerkbaits in the wind and a split shot rig in calmer water. The biggest bass was a 17 inch smallmouth on Tuesday morning on a hula grub. I also had 3 big crappy during that time frame and 1 keeper walleye. I release everything I catch. I spent more time down in the clearer cooler water in AR, maybe I should have stayed up by TMR in MO.

[BrianS]

The afternoon has been the best time to catch those fish when dragging the bottom (hint hint)

[powerdive]

Awesome report, BrianS. Very nice of you--and congrats on your win.

[Gone Fishing]

Congrats on the Joe Bass win Brian. If you don't mind me asking are you fishing up the Theodosia or more down by the Dam.

[BrianS]

I'm fishing the Oakland area. I have also been finding the same pattern around Buck Creek

[Gone Fishing]

  On 4/21/2011 at 1:37 PM, BrianS said:

I'm fishing the Oakland area. I have also been finding the same pattern around Buck Creek

Thanks for the reply. I am coming down in a few weeks and have had trouble getting the quality bites I need. It sounds like you guys have got them dialed in.