The Big M 3/14/2013

[Quillback]

Fished out of Jeb's boat today, we caught around 15 bass between the two of us, mostly sub-legals with maybe 5 or 6 keeper sized. Mix of spots and LM's. Our top baits were finesse jigs and tubes, with a couple on a jigging spoon, one on a Shad Rap, and one on the spinner bait. It went from dead calm and 26 degrees early to pretty darn windy and 71 degrees by 2 PM.

One of out better spots, a small cove with rocky shallow flats near the cove mouth that is near a deep channel swing, kicked out 5 fish when we swung by it later in the afternoon when the wind was on it. We hit that spot early in the AM when it was dead calm and did not get a bite. Most of our other fish came from inside coves, just one every once in a while.

Water was 43 -46 depending on where we were, but in spite of that we noticed a bit of surface activity when the water was calm, Jeb caught one of his spoon fish casting at a boil, it wasn't a big fish, but nice to see some signs of life.

[jeb]

It was an odd day, weather-wise, as Jeff says. Not much in between too little wind and too much wind. About 5 minutes maybe?

I caught one Wally on the finesse jig, too. It was sitting right in with the bass as we caught several bass on the same spot. It was a little short of legal though, so it went back in the lake with the rest of the fish.

[Guest]

By the sounds of your report, evenings are better than mornings right now.

Good report