Fishing Report 7/9/11

[Mike Worley]

A couple of things changed last week on BSL. The main change was the generation at Bull Shoals dam went from 6-8 units 24/7 to heavy generation during mid-day & afternoon. This seemed to slow the early morning bite from "hot" to "tough" and caused the walleyes to suspend pretty shallow out over the brush at about 18'. This past week I have stayed on the lower end of the lake in the point 1 - point 7 area and found good fishing with walleyes up to 27" (6.5LB) To catch the walleyes we had to make a few changes in presentation. We had to slow down to .8-1.2 mph and run pretty heavy B/B (2-3 oz.) on short lines (20'-24'). At that slow of speed metal blades won't spin very well and plain slow death hooks sink when the wind caused the boat to slow down. Smile blades with a small float or a Spin N Glo were working better with the whole crawlers fished on a slow death hook. We also found the dead stick rods were out catching hand held rods about 3 to 1.

[lonkm]

A couple of things changed last week on BSL. The main change was the generation at Bull Shoals dam went from 6-8 units 24/7 to heavy generation during mid-day & afternoon. This seemed to slow the early morning bite from "hot" to "tough" and caused the walleyes to suspend pretty shallow out over the brush at about 18'. This past week I have stayed on the lower end of the lake in the point 1 - point 7 area and found good fishing with walleyes up to 27" (6.5LB) To catch the walleyes we had to make a few changes in presentation. We had to slow down to .8-1.2 mph and run pretty heavy B/B (2-3 oz.) on short lines (20'-24'). At that slow of speed metal blades won't spin very well and plain slow death hooks sink when the wind caused the boat to slow down. Smile blades with a small float or a Spin N Glo were working better with the whole crawlers fished on a slow death hook. We also found the dead stick rods were out catching hand held rods about 3 to 1.

Thanks for the report. Was wondering about you. Got used to reading your reports every few days.