Report 6/3/12

[ollie]

Wow, what a day. Two of my buddies talked me into getting up super early and heading out to Elk. We left Neosho at 5 in the morning and took 2 trucks so we wouldn't have to pay for a shuttle. Got up and it was raining. Not a good sign. Raining on us when we finally got there and was putting in. Raining hard I might add, but spirits were high and we could tell it would break sometime soon. We just kept paddling until we got to a spot we knew produced fish or at least produced for us last year. Not to be dissapointed, we hook-up with a couple of smallies. Not big, but a good start none the less. Ended up fishing until around 1:00 since we had the cloud cover most of the morning. Caught right at about 100 smallies between all of us. Throw in a couple of black bass and a few gills and we had a good time! I think the biggest smallie was only like 13" and none of managed any bigger, but all in all it was a good trip. Let's see, we caught them on Fat Alberts, watermelon grubs, and watermelon lizards with a couple of flukes thrown in there for good measures.

[Buzz]

Sounds like a good trip.

[npierceuark]

what stretch did you run? we ran from pineville to the double bridge and caught around 60 for 3 of us but the size was a bit better. largest fish ran about 19 average was probably 15. Threw baby brush hogs and large black lizards.