Grand 9/26

[Quillback]

Made the trip over to Grand yesterday for the first time this year. Fishing was slow for me, caught 1/2 dozen bass, all on t-rigged creature baits. Didn't do any good on spinner baits, cranks and worms, creature bait was the only thing I could get bit on. Shad are in the coves, but most of my bass came on main lake banks, with two coming about halfway back in coves. Weather sure was nice!

[fishinSWMO]

I heard last week they were catching good numbers and some

hefty ones with a walking bait worked slow around docks.

[Quillback]

I did a little dog walking - no bites.

[Bird Watcher]

you might look up the tribs a little bit QB. Shallow and on wood on gravel. I'd try 4-5" chartreuse square bill or a spinner bait and try to bang it off the stump or log. There's usually a good afternoon topwater thing going too. LM are not what I've been fishing for, but because I am usually fishing live shad, I tend to find a lot of them whether I like it or not.

[Quillback]

Thanks for the advice, BW, I was checking out the map, may have to launch at twin bridges and head down towards the lake. Looks like a good area to throw that squarebill.

[Bird Watcher]

That would be a good place to start QB. Up or down from there. Don't forget over in the Elk too. It's pretty shallow in spots with the lake being pulled down for the millet planting so be careful. You can get through all of it in a bass boat if you know what you are doing, but you can get yourself in trouble real quick if you don't. Be careful at the junction of the mouth of Sycamore creek and the Grand if you go down from TB. There is a way across that flat, but you have to know it and there is a lot of submerged timber stuck on it.

[Quillback]

Thanks again, BW. Yeah I might take a look at the Elk. Just a matter of getting enough time to get over there.

[wily]

i agree with bw -- if you launch at twin bridges and head down lake -- you better know the lake -- or you're asking for trouble..just my 2 cents

[Bird Watcher]

FWIW, we caught the LM fairly well up Spring River on Sat. afternoon. We weren't trying to catch them so I don't know how the fishing would have been if a guy was targeting them. They were underneath the baitfish in 5-8fow. The young man in the back of the boat really put in on me. He said this was his personal best LM ever. The smile says it all.

[Quillback]

Excellent! Congrats to him on his PB!