Weekend Report

[9LB]

Got out Saturday morning and fished the points for bass. Caught a few on a jig and crankbait. Went walleye fishing and caught 3 shorts and 1 keeper on a jig and a worm fishing the flats by main river channel. I was fishing 18-22 feet. It seemed like everything stopped about 11 am.

Sunday morning I hit a few points with a Purple Jig and Purple craw and a Thunderstick top water bait and had a lot of fun.

Caught 6-7 bass off 3 different points. Once you think you are deep... go out another 20 feet. I was into them about 48 - 55 feet of water and caught fish in over 65 feet with the topwater. Nothing real big but a lot of fun. You would catch 6-7 and then they would just stop biting ? They were still there just could not get bit. The next 2 points the same happened so I was running a strike king 1.5 square bill after the topwater bite stopped and caught a few that way. The topwater caught most the fish but the purple jig and craw did it's share of the dirty work. I also found some fish wiith the jig just inside points as long as it had a steep bank. Again on Sunday after 11 am it was like they just shut off. Saturday I fished a brown and orange jig and Sunday I went purple, the Purple seemed to be a better choice. I also caught a few bass Drop Shotting. I have NEVER fished this technique before. I used a small purple finesse worm and would see 10 or more lil 6 inch bass following it on nearly every cast so it definately had their attention. Caught 2-3 small bass on it. Neat rig I think it just takes some getting used to. I usually fish a Spook but it seemed like they wanted more action but not a big splash like a popper. The blades on that topwater would start spinning and it was really firing them up. 3 TREBLE hooks on that topwater so HOLY hooks.

My pliers got a workout.

I tried fishing down the river and up at the Dam and had 0 luck, I mean not a bite. Fished mainly between twin bridges and Hawker. A week or two of these cool evenings and it should be game on.

[hknfsh]

Great report 9Lb !! How deep ya reckon on the jig bite ? And no good at the dam ? Figured you catch some in the deeper water down at that end !

[9LB]

I caught a few right up on the bank but it seemed 10 - 20 feet off the points or inside was key. In the deep water you could throw it out and get bit before it dropped 4 foot. There was some divers up at the Dam (2 boats) and of course when I headed to the Dam the water was calm and when I got to the Dam the ole Stockton wind came cranking out of the south. It was hard to keep the tracker off the rip rap. The trolling motor was smokin. i only fished it for about 30 min. I was seeing a lot on the finder.

[hknfsh]

Doesn't take much wind to screw up the water at the dam...that's for sure ! Going up Sat. afternoon and fishing through the night. Moon will be just past full. Cool front coming in too. We'll see what the bass do or not. Gonna jig the dam area and some deep banks around State Park