The Big M 8/15/2013

[Quillback]

My fishing buddy Jeb is back in town, so we decided to give the White channel a shot again today. Best bite was on the deep end of points, anywhere from 15 to 30 FOW. Drop shotting Finesse worms and c-rigging Speed craws were the best baits. We got somewhere around 25 for the morning, maybe half dozen keepers, nothing over 2 lbs. Mostly spots. Had to fish a lot of points the fish were scattered and we'd pick up a few off each point, didn't see many schooling fish on the finder.

Fished some bushes and chunk rock banks, could not get anything going on that kind of stuff.

Water temp 80.

[Pepe]

It sounds like you are doing better than most. Everyone I talk to says fishing has gotten tough.

[jeb]

Had a fun day on the water and some good fishing for this time of year. Temps where nice and not much traffic for the Rock. Caught a gar on my c-rig in the morning, too. First time for that. I'd guess he was close to 3'.

[Quillback]

It sounds like you are doing better than most. Everyone I talk to says fishing has gotten tough.

Yeah I agree it's not easy, we covered a lot of water, fished quite a few different baits. The fish that bite aren't hammering it either, didn't have much of a problem with fish swallowing baits, most were lip hooked. Lots of 1 inch shad and they are everywhere from the backs of the coves out onto the main lake, but mostly close to the bank. You'd think the bass would be feeding on those shad, but we didn't see much surface activity at all besides gar and carp flopping around.

I'll bet if there's a tournament this weekend that has some good local sticks, someone will bag a 15 - 20 lb. limit. Seems like there's always some guys that can get a big sack, and I tip my hat to them.