3/15 And 3/16 Bass Report

[Alex Heitman]

I had a two really stellar days of fishing in the dam and KC area. The weekend before I did not throw the a-rig at all, so this weekend I decided I was going to give it a whirl. Friday morning I started at 730. A few cast into the morning and BAM! I was hooked up with a giant. Talk about a fighting LM even on 50lb braid. The sow was easily over 8 but I didn't have my scale on me for some reason. It came off the front of a dock that was sitting in 45ft of water and suspended in about 15ft of water. I found throughout the day the bass were sitting on drop offs on chunk rocks banks halfway back and all the way in the back of spawning pockets. If the wind was blowing also in toward or down parallel to the bank into the pocket it helped also. All of the bass were sitting on the drops in about 10-20ft. I found a few ditches in the back of a pocket where a lot of them were holding ambushing shad. If there was a lot of timber that was bunched up it seemed they were not there but if there was some here and there they liked it better. Presentation was a slow and steady retrieve with a few jerks here and there. They were really slamming the rig hard and eating it well. Caught almost all LM with some K's mixed in. I duplicated the same pattern on Saturday and fished the same areas. I think the areas I was in new waves of fish kept coming up in the pockets. I was able to go back to the same spots later in the day and still catch them. My best five would have went around 26lbs. Just really had a trendmendous day on Friday. Saturday I was able to duplicate the same pattern. Never got one that was over 4 lbs that day though but I still did catch all quality keepers. Below is some pics of the bass I caught on Friday.

[Cracken0812]

Were you throwing grubs or paddle tails on the rig?

[Cracken0812]

Great day on the water by the way!!

[magicwormman]

Great report!! Thanks for sharing info and pictures. My Grandson and his friend are down for the week and they need the help.

[Alex Heitman]

Thanks guys. Cracken I was throwing paddle tails on the rig.

[Quillback]

Awesome fish, congrats!

[Cracken0812]

Ok thanks for the info!

[dtrs5kprs]

Great fish, great report. Thanks for all the details. All this news of fish out in front of the docks is making me very happy.

[abkeenan]

Nice fish and fantastic report. The weather this weekend looks to be pretty lousy so I may wait 2 weeks to come down. Congrats on the Table Rock Toad. Fish of a lifetime on the Rock for sure. Don't get all that much bigger than that here in MO.

[Jacob W]

I had an awesome day Friday early in the morning swimming a 4" milky salt n pepper grub out in front of docks as well. Lots of shad gave way to one heck of a frenzy. Lots of fish pushing shad to the top.