Thursday Was Top Water Day On The Upper End

[rps]

I started at the Holiday Island marina at 5:30 and was still within a quarter mile of it at 7:30. In between, I caught 27 largemouth and spots up to two pounds. I had a really good fish on briefly but when I turned it to keep it out of timber it pulled off.

If you do not know how to fish top waters, now is the time to learn. The threadfin are bunching up on flats and flat points and the bass are helping themselves to the buffet. If you can't walk the dog, try a Chugbug or a torpedo. Most of my hits this morning came in the initial one foot after the lure landed.

After the sun came out I switched to walleye fishing but kept catching bass by accident. Only had one walleye and it was a quarter inch too short to keep.

[Champ188]

Hey rps, what's the water temp running up there?

[wormer]

RPS sounds like you had an awesome day. One quick question for you. With all the wind we where having here in town(NWA) how was the water?

If that makes sense. Slight chop, flat.....?

[rps]

Water temp was 75 to 77. Yes, it was windy and part of the trick was finding shad in water you could fish with a topwater. I considered taking out a buzz bait. It got windier as the day progressed. By the time I came in it was disagreeably windy.

[Feathers and Fins]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmm..... Shad you say