Black Bass Frenzy.

[Fishnet]

Fished Diamond Bay last week, Wednesday and Sunday (9/30/12). Caught 10 bass Sunday fishing daylight till 9:00 AM. Using a KVD coffee watermelon with red flake 7 inch worm. Not any big ones, but a lot of fun. Wednesday caught 8 bass using a plastic crawfish watermelon/pumpkin seed bicolor with smelly jelly crawfish scent. The smelly jelly really does smell like crawfish and the fish would gulp the bait soon at the bait hit the water.

Both days I would catch fish throwing at rocky banks. Non rocky banks would not produce fish. My guess is the bass were chasing crawfish in the rocks.

Also caught 4 stripers Wednesday (9/27/12) fishing live gizzard shad in open water. Fish were between 16 and 19 pounds. Just one of those days where I was at the right place at the right time. Stripers were light biting the shad fished at 26 feet. The school of stripers moved in and out in a matter of about 30 minutes. But for that short time frame it was one bite after another. Not a single bite after the school

retreated.

Good fishing,

Fishnet

[Phil Lilley]

First post and it was a great fishing report! Thanks very much!

[Tfsh4bass]

I fished Norfork last Thursday from 7am until 10pm and had an incredible day especially when the clouds were around. Didn't catch any stripers or whites but caught a bunch of largemouth, smallmouth and spots on a variety of baits including spook, buzzbait, spinnerbait, shallow crank, deep crank and swimbait..then single spins after dark. As much fun as you can have fishing and caught almost everything off chunk rock in pockets...some on gravel but the chunk was the deal and it didn't matter how deep but mostly less than 15. Norfork is such a great lake and I enjoy every trip I make there...that 13-14" spawn was a good one but did manage to catch some really good ones also. Fished around the 62 bridge area but doubt it mattered much with the way they were biting.