Big M 5/1/2013

[Quillback]

Started off fairly well, caught a spot on a wakebait and had a few blowups on a gravel point. Switched to c-rigging a lizard and picked up a few on it, then things got tough. Probably stayed with the lizard too long, I was trying to make them bite it and they just were not interested. Later on in the morning picked up a couple more on a trick worm and a couple on a weightless Damiki Stinger. Ended up with maybe a dozen total, mostly sub-legal spots.

Talked to a fellow at the ramp and he said he did well as far as numbers fishing a minnow type topwater (he did not specify what it was exactly), but not many keepers.

Saw about a dozen dead white bass scattered around, not all in one spot but in several miles there were some dead ones floating. Why that is I don't know.

Lots, and I mean lots, of carp spawning right now, this would be a great time to be a bowfisher.

I saw water temps that were 63-64 around noon before I left.

[Pepe]

We went out again about 3 PM and hit main lake points with a C-rig and swimming a grub setting the boat in 30 feet. We thought we might get a crack at some of the sows on these windy points but it was slow. No keepers and only a half dozen fish

We only saw a few boats all afternoon and came in about 7:30

[Jacob W]

Quill, I saw two whites Saturday dead around big m as well. It was early in the morning and their eyes wasn't hazed over yet like they hadn't been dead very long, maybe something to it...

[dtrs5kprs]

Quill, I saw two whites Saturday dead around big m as well. It was early in the morning and their eyes wasn't hazed over yet like they hadn't been dead very long, maybe something to it...

Due to the spawn maybe? Usually takes some out.

DC...that grub bite was very tough for me to get going, swimming or scrubbing. Under the same conditions they would eat a stick, or plastic dead on the bottom, but not the grub. Very odd.