Bull This Coming Week

[mstpstl]

hardly any reports on bull, whats the latest ? water temps? clarity? will be running out of Protem area for a few days

any help is appreciated. have learned alot from this site

[Ham]

I'll look forward to hearing how you do. I hope you catch em until your arms are sore.

It might be crazy good or it might be tough. I'd expect rapidly rising temps.

I'd be looking at a jerkbait bite off points and a crankbait bite first.

I might drag a grub some just to make sure that wasn't happening yet.

You might want to go way up creeks and find off color water to bang a squarebill around.

Ned Rig.

Don't sleep on a Hula grub in 10-20 ft of water.

I'd also be very curious about White Bass running up Shoal, Elbow, or Big Creek.

Bull gets a little bit more of a break from me, but I'll be in Jimmy Creek before long.

[Moswimb8slinger]

I'll be fishing a club tournament tomorrow out k-dock (i know it's "upper" bull shoals) and I'll be sure to post a report afterwards

[Moswimb8slinger]

Holy crap was that a hard day of fishing. The club tournament as a whole struggled to bring in keeper size bass (lm and spots). Some were caught on A-rigs(flash mob with white baits), brown or green pumkin jig and craw, and reddish or red belly crankbaits (wart, rapala dt10). Water temp anywhere from 46-53. Found most fish on channel swing bluffs either on the lake or back in the creeks...

Hopefully the warming weather will get the big girls stirring soon

[mstpstl]

Thanks for that report. We got on the water at 3 pm till 6. I pitched a no hitter. My partner caught a nice 2.4 small mouth on a wart in a cove off the main lake Temps 51 was the highest we saw up in cedar. Got a nice largo mouth up there too. Beautiful day for a boat ride thou. Lol