Fishing 6-10-2012

[Bill Babler]

What is considered a "runout"?

Rogerdoger answered your question.

[mclothier1]

Fished from point 6 to Mill Creek the last week and found a few big bluegills hanging out with the spots at around 24ft. Also found a nice 5lb. Channel cat around the same depth on a bluff end. Caught double digit bass every day mostly on the nightcrawler, and the majority were keepers (6 out of 10)

Found several keeper Largemouth which was a first for me, most others were Spots and a few Smallmouth.

Also caught a few on the shaky head with a pumpkin seed worm, (overcast day) Tried the brown/purple FB jig with limited success, but saw a tournament fisherman catch several nice fish on the same setup within 100 foot off the dock we were staying. He was able to cull up several fish since he already had his limit.

We had our best luck early, fishing 24 to 36 ft deep on some of those long points and bluff ends. Didnt try anything over 40 since I never was able to pinpoint anything on the radar. Could of been my finder since it was acting up. Was able to catch several nice ones by dropping a jig straight down in the dock stalls, most of the time they would either hit it on the drop or the first hop.

Only one short on the topwater. and several that slapped at it. nothing exciting there.

Had a great time, and cant wait to get back!

[Hunter53]

Here is abit of another tip. For some reason, these chasers, weather it be Black Bass or White's, are right now hitting a spoon, better than the topwater stuff. If you see a boil or a chase, have a 1 oz. either white or chartruse spoon on and if you got it, have it rooster tailed. Just hammered them out of Baxter on it yesterday. They would just slap at the topwater or blow it up. They ate the spoon.

Good Luck

While the wife and I were there we also had fish just slap at the topwater stuff. What worked really well for us was throwing a soft jerk bait in a black/silver. We would jerk it along the surface until we got it to the chasers and then let it fall right there. They would engulf it on the fall. We would also get some hits while jerking it along the surface as well.

One other thing that worked for us was spooning the docks. There were times when they wouldn't hit the spoon but would hit a 3" paddletail swimbait on a 1/4oz head fished just like a spoon.