9/16 Report

[Flatbottom Boy]

I got out of the house to chase crappies out on the Glaize for the day. Crappie fishing turned out to be a bust with nothing but short fish mostly, a couple keepers that lived to play another day. I quickly switched up to bass chucking brush hogs up against structure on the bank, and I'm glad I did. It turned out to be a pretty productive day, mostly short fish but I don't complain when they are bairly sublegal. I did end up catching 3 in the 4lb range. I worked the shad schools with a couple different baits and finally figured out how to fool them into hitting. I would take a white spinner bait and jerk it through the school really fast then let it drop as soon as they scattered, they would hit it on the fall. I also took a shad rap and ripped it through the same way, usually I would end up with a couple shad on the hook the bass would normally hit it while it was sitting stationary. I caught two of the bigger ones this way. Most the the fish on the brush hog came in less than 10 FOW. Great day....and very few boats.

[MOsmallies]

Great report! Are you finding the shad schools back in coves or out on the mainlake? Are they still those schools of small 2" shad?

[fishinwrench]

Awesome! Yessir it does look like the bite is finally picking up on this pond. I do wish they'd stop with the drawdown though.

[Flatbottom Boy]

Wrench we gotta get back out, I'll link up with you in the next couple weeks. MoSmallies, they were back in coves for the most part. It think some were out in the deeper water but it was hard to tell there was some pretty good chop out on the water yesterday. They were the smaller shad, but the bass were destroying them in the one cove I was in. The feeding lasted about an hour and it really got my heart rate up even though I didn't catch as many as you would think with all the activity. I had tried to fish those schools a couple weeks ago but I couldn't get anything to strike the baits I was throwing, then again they were not feeding like that back then either.