Holiday Weekend Report - Bass Are Biting!

[9LB]

The fishing this weekend was as good as I have seen it ! The Bass are hitting everythng you throw at them. Water was just under 70. The bass were all caught in coves with willow bushes along the shore. We were in 1 - 10 feet of water. You did have to get back in there to get the bite. The big killer was a PBJ jig with trailer. Carolina Rig with a big 10" worm or a big craw. I was having more luck with a bit of flouro dye on the tip of the worm. The walleyes were bting well on jig and a worm but we could not stop bass fishing. We were catching about 50 between 3 of us each morning and evening with some real chunky 3 - 4 lbs. Caught several nice crappie trolling and my neighbor was just destorying the crappies trolling small crankbaits. Caught 2 nice channel cats jigging for walleyes. Still can not seem to get the topwater bite going but the Jig and Caroina rig was money.

[DADAKOTA]

Sounds like fun. I figured with the dropping water level and the clear water they would have left the bushes. Shows what I know.

[Dutch]

I figured with the post spawn that they would be hanging around deeper water by now. I'm quite surprised.

[zarraspook]

Like I said in my post (Stockton 5/28/13) THANKS for the heads up on the bass putting on the feed bag..

[9LB]

They were in the deeper water as well caught several 10 to 20 foot but once that jig fell off the branch and in the shallow water it was money

[podum]

Some fish are still way shallow. We camped at Orleans Trail over the holiday and there were several nice fish spawning under the cables at the courtesy docks by the camp ground. I caught lots of fish in the 13-15 inch class by the willow bushes just screwing around with a roadrunner jig in the evenings. Lots of healthy fish in the lake.