Sunday Report 3/26

[Dollar Bill]

Have been fishing between Ruark and CC the last few trips with good sucess so I thought I'd change it up this time. Why I don't know... Put in at High Point about 9am and got off at 7. Beautiful sunshine with very light wind all day and highs in the mid 70's. Counted 27 trailers at Aldrich when I went by so I'm guessing the river was busy. Only 12 at HP so not as bad. Main river water was much more off color than side coves and downstream. Water temps were weird. Found 56 to 66.7! Oddly, the south facing sundrenched banks seemed to be up to 4 degrees cooler than the opposite banks and my best fishing was in the cooler water... Fished all day between Aldrich and Cedar Ridge. Pulled my back sometime midday so that slowed me down quite a bit. Didn't tear it up but caught several fish. Took some minnows and spent a couple of hours early trying to find some crappie with zero fish. Dang. Went bass fishing and ended up catching around 20 blacks with only 1 keeper, a couple of spots, 3 huge whites and a walleye. Caught them on a shad wart, a Senko, rigged wacky, and I broke down and even threw the A-rig for the first time catching 2 blacks and 1 white. It was a home made "mini" rig my friend at work got me. Cute but not magic. Couldn't really put together a solid repeatable pattern but what a great day on the water!

Good luck and be safe!

bill

[dennis boatman]

Sounds like our day, but we put in at Hartley...started about 2pm and quit near dark...lots of short bass and Crappie were few and far between, but nice size...it was one fantastic day at Stockton .....

[sundevil]

I am coming down to fish in 10 days. Are the points on the main lake worth fishing for bass and crappie or do you have to fish the south arms for any luck. Thanks!

[Dollar Bill]

I've had my best luck on channel banks and points and bluffends. That must change soon as the spawn increases. I would be looing in likely spawning areas and the transition areas near them...

[Allen R.]

I think you can always catch them on points at Stockton. I fished this past Saturday, and it was tough, but caught most my fish on points in the clear stuff north of the twin bridges. There were several swimmers, but I've had a tough time getting any kind of a bottom bite for bass. It's been fun though catching them on the jerkbait, I finally have confidence in that bait, took me a while, haha.