Trips Of 4/27 & 28

[straw hat]

Not our best weekend ever but I guess not our worse.We tried 2 coves near Ruark for late spawners and only managed two. HIt a small place over on Maze Creek for post spawn and after several hours had 7 (they were 16' deep ona steep chunk rock bank. Today we tried that same steep rocky bank near Springfield Cove where we have been getting fair numbers of post spawner. We were very suprised how much the water had turned green. The water temp had risen from 59 a week ago to 63 today. We worked it hard and had a number of hits that just wouldn't take it. We came up with 6 keeper crappie and 1 channel, all out of 20 to 22' of water right on the bottom. The wife also caught a 14' white bass at 10' (suspended). we saw a fair number of good size white breaking the surface. We drove over the CC bridge on the way home and the water looked pretty green there also. The highlight of he weekend was a nice bass that the wife caught while trying to catch spawning crappie. It was a 3 3/4 lb male that was taken about 4' deep, in real clear water in the afternoon of a sunny day (go figure!), Don't let the stringer fool you, she didn't want her thumb tore up so I let her hold it on a stringer. The fish was cpr and swam off happily (but with a sore jaw! lol)