Mike Worley Posted August 1, 2012 Posted August 1, 2012 We fished out the Diamond City, the weather while quite warm wasn't as bad as it had been due to cloud cover most of the day and we found plently of fish willing to bite in the 15'-30' depth range. We started out casting 4" smoke & silver flake swimmin' minnows on 1/4oz jigs to rocky main lake points and caught several bass with the best one being about a 5# LMB. About 10 AM we finally started to get a light wind blowing so we switched over to bottom bouncer & crawler rigs and caught about 10 walleyes (3 keepers) a dozen or so spotted bass (5 keepers) a large crappie a 17" SMB and quite a few large bluegills . The bottom bouncer fish were out on the gravel flats with most of them suspended about 20' down over about 30 FOW.
Jeff Olson Posted August 1, 2012 Posted August 1, 2012 thanks for the report mike! mike or anyone else,just courious about using b-bouncers as I am only familiar using them on bottom,but when you have fish suspended at 20ft in 30ft of water as in your report, are you trying to run your bb at that 20ft depth? thanks.
Bill Jr. Posted August 3, 2012 Posted August 3, 2012 Nice fish! Looks like you are just outside of Shoal Creek. I'm going down on Saturday for the week and mainly bass fishing early mornings and then taking the kids out in the heat. I'll be in the same area and looking forward to a few good hours of fishing early in the mornings. I'll be in a POS pee yellow boat so if anyone is out don't be afraid to say hi!
Mike Worley Posted August 3, 2012 Author Posted August 3, 2012 We fished Thursday again in the Diamond City area starting early morning fishing for bass. As soon as we got to the "Honey Hole" the thunderstorm blew in and poured down rain for a good hour. The bass were there we could see them on the sonar but they would not bite. About 9:30 we ran a few miles down the lake to a flat and started trolling with bottom boucners, we found the walleyes & KY's were again suspended about 20' down over about 30 fow. Fishing the bottom did not get a bite but 18'-20' down we caught 6 walleyes with 4 being nice keepers in the 20"-22" range for a good sack of fish for a half day trip.
Jeff Olson Posted August 3, 2012 Posted August 3, 2012 Thanks again Mike for report and the info! I appreciate all your reports and information.
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