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yellowcard.gif OUCH!!! Kind of thought it might be tough the way the boys were a talkin, but had really no idea. Launched at Baxter this morning at 6 AM in the ink black of night, hoping to sneak up on a pre-dawn feeding bass fish.

Joke was on me, and the fish played it well. For the most part the Lowrance HD8's looked very similar to the top of the pool table in your rec room.

First location was a long runout up the white river. John put his 3/8th. oz PigSicker jig up on the hogback and wiggled it twice and a nice K munched it. He played the same trick again fishing the jig in about 23 ft. of water and got the same result. I banana looped mine out next door to were he had incarcerated the first two and got a very nice result in our third K in less than 5 minutes. Wish I could tell you it continued, but that would be trash talk as that was pretty much it for the next 3 hrs. I mean not even a bluegill sniff.

I fished in and out and out and in. I went thru the tackle drawer like a corn picker going thru a field of grain. In simple words, "They were not havin it."

Told John we got to get more bites than this and we started looking at some shallow docks, with the jig. Caught 5 more, but not on the docks. They were shallow alright, inbetween the docks in the sunlite. Not on the shady side or under the docks, but just out runing the banks in between the durn things. No keeps here but we did catch at least one of everything.

Moved back to Baxter and started fishing a bit shallower on the same type of stuff and of course nothing. Saw a couple of chasers and tried to get them mad enough to eat our junk, but again we were rejected.

On the way in we stopped on one long flat point and tried a dropshot. Fish were come off the bottom to it, but reject it or perch bite it and nothing. John asked if he could keep on the jig and I said, "As good as that jig has been, keep throwin it." He caught another short Jaw. I threw it once and got a keeper K and at the same time he caught a nice K.

We fished on a cloudy windy day with surface temps at 83 degree in off color water and only caught. 11 fish, and for Cripes Sakes we earned everyone of them. It is pretty tough.

Beck, fished the dam area and reported about a dozen bass one nice walleye and he had 5 white up top early. Pretty much covers the lake from the dam to Campbell point.

If there were some real hands out there today, let us know how ya did it as of today, I got some learnin to do.

Good Luck

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Bill, good to have you back. The Baxter walleye bite has pretty well petered out for me. Not much of a show on sonar. Sunday was flat calm and very hot. We managed only one short eye that hit a crank in 25 feet. Caught very few bass while trolling cranks, which is highly unusual. Couldn't even get bothered by a bluegill on a crawler harness. Checked all depths from 16 to 30, which is where it had been happening for quite awhile. Last pass of the day, we went deeper, 35-40 feet, and found significantly better show there in the Pt. 19 area, decent numbers of shad and hooks near bottom. Running cranks on lead at 35 feet, we caught one smallie on a point and two big whites in a cove mouth. If we weren't already fried by the heat, I'd bet we could have gotten something going in the deeper water. Anyway, you might give the 35-38 foot range a good try in the midlake area....

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PD Thanks, I am not a shallow water guy in the least little bit. Boys have been telling me 22 to 30 and not much else. This time year I'm usually in 50, so anything under 35 from me is shallow water fishing. Beck did have some at 40 plus but they vanished. I checked my GPS marks up the White today with many of the over 500 locations are in depths from 28 to 60. When I said I went in and out and out and in, I was not kidding. After i hit the 30 ft. mark, I was usually looking at nothing but bottom and lots of water inbetween. Saw nothing on the bottom, and not much suspended.

Lots of shad in the under 30 ft. range, but nothing on them. Boys have said the fish are very tight to the bottom in the under 30 ft. range, but we could not scratch them off with either soft plastics or live bait.

Thanks for the heads up however I will work that depth more carefully tomorrow.

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Yeah, the eyes have been much shallower than usual this year also. Not much to go on (small sample size), but tight corners and sides of ditches looked best the other day. Good luck!

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Bill. Tough morning. Went out at 530am and fished a dock up Carter Creek. Black bass were slapping on the top until the sun came up. They hit my top water popper a few times, but never hooked. It was if they were slapping at my lure. We threw mini torpedoes, spoons, grubs, rattle traps, bit could not get them to bite at all. Very frustrating as they were everywhere. They were blacks, but busting the surface like whites.

After sun up, they went deep and we moved to a point. Tried fishing the 25-35 depth and nothing. Drifted over into the 50' range and caught two. One on a spoon, the other on a nightcrawler.

Any suggestions on the top water bite during the grey period would be appreciated.

Glenn

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Bill. Tough morning. Went out at 530am and fished a dock up Carter Creek. Black bass were slapping on the top until the sun came up. They hit my top water popper a few times, but never hooked. It was if they were slapping at my lure. We threw mini torpedoes, spoons, grubs, rattle traps, bit could not get them to bite at all. Very frustrating as they were everywhere. They were blacks, but busting the surface like whites.

After sun up, they went deep and we moved to a point. Tried fishing the 25-35 depth and nothing. Drifted over into the 50' range and caught two. One on a spoon, the other on a nightcrawler.

Any suggestions on the top water bite during the grey period would be appreciated.

Was it the two docks on the left going in. The first just before the small covered dock in the small boat ramp cove. and the second just after the boat ramp? They live there. I have caught them chasing in there a hundred times. If you really want to catch those little squirts, put a grey 1/32 oz crappie jig 5' under a float and throw that into the mix. Just work it slow back to the boat, they'll be all over it. Just like you would fish a jig and float along the shore for crappie.

Good Luck

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Thanks for the advise. It was the 1st dock on the left before the boat ramp. I was very surprised to see it over 50' deep just a few feet from the front of the dock. Most were between the boat ramp and the dock. Your advise is very much appreciated.

Glenn

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yellowcard.gif OUCH!!! Kind of thought it might be tough the way the boys were a talkin, but had really no idea. Launched at Baxter this morning at 6 AM in the ink black of night, hoping to sneak up on a pre-dawn feeding bass fish.

Joke was on me, and the fish played it well. For the most part the Lowrance HD8's looked very similar to the top of the pool table in your rec room.

First location was a long runout up the white river. John put his 3/8th. oz PigSicker jig up on the hogback and wiggled it twice and a nice K munched it. He played the same trick again fishing the jig in about 23 ft. of water and got the same result. I banana looped mine out next door to were he had incarcerated the first two and got a very nice result in our third K in less than 5 minutes. Wish I could tell you it continued, but that would be trash talk as that was pretty much it for the next 3 hrs. I mean not even a bluegill sniff.

I fished in and out and out and in. I went thru the tackle drawer like a corn picker going thru a field of grain. In simple words, "They were not havin it."

Told John we got to get more bites than this and we started looking at some shallow docks, with the jig. Caught 5 more, but not on the docks. They were shallow alright, inbetween the docks in the sunlite. Not on the shady side or under the docks, but just out runing the banks in between the durn things. No keeps here but we did catch at least one of everything.

Moved back to Baxter and started fishing a bit shallower on the same type of stuff and of course nothing. Saw a couple of chasers and tried to get them mad enough to eat our junk, but again we were rejected.

On the way in we stopped on one long flat point and tried a dropshot. Fish were come off the bottom to it, but reject it or perch bite it and nothing. John asked if he could keep on the jig and I said, "As good as that jig has been, keep throwin it." He caught another short Jaw. I threw it once and got a keeper K and at the same time he caught a nice K.

We fished on a cloudy windy day with surface temps at 83 degree in off color water and only caught. 11 fish, and for Cripes Sakes we earned everyone of them. It is pretty tough.

Beck, fished the dam area and reported about a dozen bass one nice walleye and he had 5 white up top early. Pretty much covers the lake from the dam to Campbell point.

If there were some real hands out there today, let us know how ya did it as of today, I got some learnin to do.

Good Luck

Hey Bill,good to see you back buddy. Now for your question , you've been in Alaska to long. Cause Baxter is another one of my honey holes, theres no fish there LOL. Good to have a pro back. Snakem Out.

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We got lucky saturday morning way way back in a creek in the dam area. We tried deep stuff from 6-9 a.m. with only a couple shorts coming from about 20ft on jigs. It got a little cloudy and breezy so we decided to go shallow and have a look around. I dont know if this is a reproducable pattern or just a right spot in the right time type situation, but we found huge balls of shad with lots of hungry fish chasing them around in less than 10 foot of water in this particular creek. We managed to catch about 20-25 largemouths with only 2 being keepers, 2 keepers spots and one really nice white bass. We easily lost as many fish as we landed as they were slapping at the bait as others have reported. All our fish came on topwaters in about one hour. Once the sun came out they vanished and our tough day continued.

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yellowcard.gif OUCH!!! Kind of thought it might be tough the way the boys were a talkin, but had really no idea. Launched at Baxter this morning at 6 AM in the ink black of night, hoping to sneak up on a pre-dawn feeding bass fish.

Joke was on me, and the fish played it well. For the most part the Lowrance HD8's looked very similar to the top of the pool table in your rec room.

First location was a long runout up the white river. John put his 3/8th. oz PigSicker jig up on the hogback and wiggled it twice and a nice K munched it. He played the same trick again fishing the jig in about 23 ft. of water and got the same result. I banana looped mine out next door to were he had incarcerated the first two and got a very nice result in our third K in less than 5 minutes. Wish I could tell you it continued, but that would be trash talk as that was pretty much it for the next 3 hrs. I mean not even a bluegill sniff.

I fished in and out and out and in. I went thru the tackle drawer like a corn picker going thru a field of grain. In simple words, "They were not havin it."

Told John we got to get more bites than this and we started looking at some shallow docks, with the jig. Caught 5 more, but not on the docks. They were shallow alright, inbetween the docks in the sunlite. Not on the shady side or under the docks, but just out runing the banks in between the durn things. No keeps here but we did catch at least one of everything.

Moved back to Baxter and started fishing a bit shallower on the same type of stuff and of course nothing. Saw a couple of chasers and tried to get them mad enough to eat our junk, but again we were rejected.

On the way in we stopped on one long flat point and tried a dropshot. Fish were come off the bottom to it, but reject it or perch bite it and nothing. John asked if he could keep on the jig and I said, "As good as that jig has been, keep throwin it." He caught another short Jaw. I threw it once and got a keeper K and at the same time he caught a nice K.

We fished on a cloudy windy day with surface temps at 83 degree in off color water and only caught. 11 fish, and for Cripes Sakes we earned everyone of them. It is pretty tough.

Beck, fished the dam area and reported about a dozen bass one nice walleye and he had 5 white up top early. Pretty much covers the lake from the dam to Campbell point.

If there were some real hands out there today, let us know how ya did it as of today, I got some learnin to do.

Good Luck

Fishing has been very tough. However there are still biting fish out there. I have been covering lots of water from Baxter up the Kings. The main thing I have been getting bites on has been the jig. 1/2-3/8 oz jigs in anything with green pumpking. I have been junk fishing for the last month and the best bite for me has been in the middle of the day. The only thing I can think of why they are biting better in the middle of the day is they are sitting on stuff. It maybe a visible piece of cover or if I am offshore working it through brush or trees they are biting. As long as there is a little bit of shade around the cover that is what I have found. Been fishing anywhere to out as far as 45ft. Have found a pop-r bite in the mornings or late evenings if shad are present next to the bank. Thats been working for me.

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