Big M 8/17

[Quillback]

Launched at dawn, ran into OA member Inshore and his buddy, nice to meet you!

We ran up to our number 1 favorite long point, fished it hard for about an hour and caught only one K there. We pulled up and motored in the direction of Eagle Rock, near which is a series of 3 gravel points, we fished those points and found one small area about 25 feet deep where we caught in the vicinity of 20 K's, one decent LM, and 3short walleye, mostly on spoons. Once that bite slowed down, we motored back up lake and fished several spots and caught a few more fish, but couldn't find another hot spot. Most of the fish we caught later in the AM at the other spots came on drop shotted plastics.

Ended up with a little over 30, mostly 12-14" K's, with a couple of keepers. Water temp is 82, down from last weeks 85. Quite a few bass fishers out there today.

[Bill Babler]

Thanks, nice report. Glad you boys got bit. Lots of short fish waiting for next Spring. They will be fat solid keepers by then. Did you notice a lot of threadfin shad? Toward Shell Knob, there seems to be millions of T. Shad.

[jay bird]

We where up between Big M and Shell Knob on Wed. night and the number of shad was unreal!!!!!

[Quillback]

Bill we did not see a whole lot of shad, but every once in a while we'd see them on the depth finder, a couple of the fish spit up shad, looks like they're getting lots to eat.

[Bill Babler]

Didn't show any pic's the other day, but at times they would just black me out. Solid from top to bottom 26' full in the water column.

[T-RockJaws]

Last wednesday night between Big M and Eagle Rock, a few spots I fished looked like it was raining from all the shad "flipping" around. Did not see a whole lot of fish feeding on them.