5-11-13 Windsor

[Guest]

We got a late start around 3pm, fished until 7:30.

Water was tea colored at the ramp with a nice green stain throughtout the lake.

We fished the culverts where Tanyard creek pours under the road.

There's a few fish biting jigs around the structure placed there when the lake was low a couple years back.

It wasn't as productive as it could have been, but the sun was bright at the time.

I think you could score early in the morning on a topwater, maybe a buzzbait.

That was the clearest water in the lake today.

The mud has already pushed all the way to the dam in 48+ hours since the rain.

We caught 10 keepers under the slot, had 3 in the slot, missed 5-10 more.

It could've easily been a 20+ fish afternoon, not bad for 4hrs.

Here's the deal.

Those bass are chasing bluegill and sunfish that are around the bedding areas.

We caught 90% of the bass on shallow mainlake docks around pea gravel.

Boat sat in 6-10ft casting into 3-5'.

All these bass were post spawners, skinny and aggressive.

They all feel victim to a custom painted KVD 1.5 in bluegill or chameleon brown.

They would hit the bait with a closed mouth at times, bc they knocked slack in the line without getting the hooks.

I'm sure this is a result of running bream out of their beds for the past several weeks.

I did catch a few fish on the Eakins jig, just pitching between the skinny area of the dock and the pontoon.

It was short range power fishing at its finest.

My advice is take a square bill in a sunfish color and hit as many docks as possible on shallow mainlake flats.

You might catch a few hawgs if you try the buzzbait around these same docks just after sunrise or late in the afternoon.

The fish were positioned in the shade of the dock, even if its a small patch of shade.

I think this pattern will hold up as long as there's stain on the water.

We had a blast today and my old man caught most of the bass.

I was more than happy to net his fish.

The good news is that we kept 10 bass under the slot and I'm cooking fish for my wife as a mothers day present!

That ensures me a return trip next weekend!

[Quillback]

Thanks for the report, glad to hear you guys got into them!

I did a few laps around the Windsor dam yesterday afternoon for some exercise, talked to a guy that was loadind his boat, said he did real well on bluegill and redear.

[Guest]

Thanks for the report, glad to hear you guys got into them!

I did a few laps around the Windsor dam yesterday afternoon for some exercise, talked to a guy that was loadind his boat, said he did real well on bluegill and redear.

I told my dad that we needed to bring the crickets next time.

thanks for sharing that advice