Big Sugar 6/23

[ollie]

Water was beautiful with the flow getting back down to where the levels are for summertime. Fishing was pretty good, but it took me a while to get dialed in on what they wanted. Started with a fluke, no dice there. Switched over to a brush hog, nothing going on there as well. Then started throwing a grub and things started to pick up. Caught several small bass and some google-eyes thrown in for good measure. Biggest of the day for me was a 16 1/2". Came out of a deep hole on a bend where a tree root wad had made it deep behind it. Not as big a CDC's, but for me this is the biggest of the year so far on Big Sugar. Great day and I did see 4 guys wade fishing and pounding the heck out of the water. They weren't doing so well when I spoke to them though. I wasn't doing that well at that time either! It took a while, but it was worth it.

[Buzz]

Nice fish Ollie. Did the wind give you any problems?

[fishinSWMO]

That's a good one.

I did a little fishing down around there Friday, and later in the afternoon it was every cast had a fish for awhile.

[Guest]

I've noticed they'll pound a Lil dipper swimbait, so that falls into the category of grubbing bass.

Did you try a finesse worm?

[CDC]

Nice bass. That is generally the range of the bigger fish i catch on Sugar. Last week's 18 inch bass was a rarity for that stretch of creek.

[ollie]

Hey, before last years drought I was catching at least one every year down there in the 18-19" range it seemed like. I felt lucky to catch the one I did! lol