Fishing Report 4/11/3

[Mike Worley]

I Have fished in the Jimmie, Sister, Mountain, Tremble & Buck Creek areas in the past week with some days being very good and some not so much. The afternoon & nights seem to be better for walleyes on stickbaits while the white & black bass are biting thoughout the daytime on several baits and techinques. We have caught some pretty good size spotted bass on large minnows split shotted in 10-20 on rocky creek secondary points. Carolina rigs & jigheads tipped with 5" zoom lizards are catching lots of bass but most were smaller fish. We had a great day in the Buck creeks with bass up to 5 LBs on 1/16 white bucktail jigs on 4# line in the shallowest water you could keep the boat in with several fish over 4 LBs in about 2' fow. The main thing seems to be finding colored water which is pretty much the back end of the creeks. this colored water in the northern creeks is several degrees warmer. We found the water temp in Tremble creek to be 52-54 while both Buck & little Buck was 56-60 degrees. The white bass are biting great on some days and tougher on others. The day we caught the LMB we only managed to catch 1 big sow on a inline spinner. Other days I've found the whites biting well on small swimbaits, bucktail jigs & spinners in Jimmie, Sister & Mountain creeks mostly in 12-2 fow in the back of the creeks. We found even in the colored water where you could not see the bottom in 4' fow that the 4# line seemed to be the difference in catching or not. 6# mono & 6# braid just weren't getting bit intill you got out into about 10' fow. I did catch a few keeper spotted bass on stickbaits fished on 8# mono on the same type of rocky secondary creek points that produced on the minnows. There was a private bass tourny out of Little Buck creek that seemed to have 20-30 boats on Tuesday seems like they fished 2 days and caught lots of fish mostly on stickbaits. My fishing partner on Tuesday Bill Struthers told me that he went to west Sugarloaf creek last weekend there were thousands of dead & dying shad with hundreds of seagulls working on them. We decided to launch at Hwy 125 park and did see a lot of seagulls but no dead shad.

[Diamond City Fisher]

The gulls must have eaten a lot of shad. I was in West Sugarloaf Tuesday....fished most of it and saw only 4 dead shad. I also live on West Sugarloaf and have been wondering where the gulls are this year. Nothing like the shad kill year before last.

[Ham]

Solid work Mike!