Monday Report

[dtrs5kprs]

Down 4/16 5/1. Will try to post a report nightly. Doing it from wife's kindle a bit limited. Fished mostly shallow around 13. Water an ugly brown. 64-67 deg and change. 3 keepers- 2 brown 1 black. Most fish on Ned Rig including lots of shorts. LM was on square bill in front of mostly dry bushes-about 18". Sq bill messed. Vvv up. Stayed on it too long after. Best bite after noon and after wind layed off a bit. Fish smack on bottom. Last keeper at about 3pm. All blacks today spawned out. Going looking for a group tomorrow. Brownies looked to have just come up.

[Bill Babler]

How deep are you catching the spawned out Blacks? Beck and I neighter one has caugth a spawned out fish yet. i am catching lots of thin Bucks on the banks up to 3 pounds. I have personally not caught a fish with a fanned tail or rubbed belly or head. All the fish I'm catching are clean male LM up close.

Are you catchin those post spawn fish out on the ends? As you know most all of the fish that spawn won't hang around up there to long and go out to feed. It is a strange year with the water color. So it would not suprise me. We are just not catching an spawners yet.

Had 5 on a fin yesterday with the biggest at 6 pounds and two others over 4 pounds. over deep trees off bluffends. All were sows full of eggs and not a mark on them, as clean as could be and getting ready.

[Larry Eby]

Help with what a Ned rig is?

[dtrs5kprs]

Bill...not bluff ends but on the way out of the creeks. Did not look like

males but not big.

All brown fish and K's today. 3 keeps good numbers shorts to stay entertained.

Average size on the brownies. K's all short.