Good Gosh, Just Shoot Me.

[fishinwrench]

If you saw some of the places I fish, you would realize how apt that description is. Plain gravel, no contour, no cover. Just teeny tiny rocks.

So maybe we should deduct from this that FISH ARE EVERYWHERE, and the old school line of thought that 90% of the fish are in 10% of the body of water....is/was Wrong?

Or are you maybe exploiting that "lost" 10% ?

[Old plug]

When this blows out I will be back to using my Carolina rig. Shallows cooled to much for my finessing with a 8 in plastic worm. I have very few problems with the moss on it as well.

Our low temperatures here are all predicted to be in the 40s. I do hope so. I just planted about 300 Inpatients and a few Begonias. I would not like to do it over.

[dtrs5kprs]

So maybe we should deduct from this that FISH ARE EVERYWHERE, and the old school line of thought that 90% of the fish are in 10% of the body of water....is/was Wrong?

Or are you maybe exploiting that "lost" 10% ?

Wrench...think you are closer to correct than you intended, on both counts.

[Duck]

We put in at Viney and only had 2 small blacks there, went down to Cedar and caught 8 more with two keeper size. I would not have gone knowing the wind was going to be SO STRONG. Kinda scary getting back to Viney. Most caught on watermelon lizards. Tried the rig and tube but the wind made it impossible to keep a snug line. Still blowing hard here at Holiday Island. Stay safe. Duck

[dtrs5kprs]

The fix is already in hand. Is that cryptic enough?

Hope everyone knows that was as tongue in cheek as I could manage after all that wind. Actually thought at one point a dock roof might come flying loose and hit me. Or a tree. Or a turtle clutching a rock. It was nasty.

[willyfish]

Fishing "ugly" water is an interesting subject. I remember reading an article about that subject years ago. Its a hard thing to make your self do sometimes but it can pay off. I put a 3 1/2 in the boat that got a top 10 for us one trip and it was the ugliest bank in the creek. Think about all the shoreline you drive past all the time because it doesn't look or feel right.

[Old plug]

No water is Ugly. You never know for sure. Bass are all over. One of my 5lb'ers last summer came out of water not more than 18 inches deep in the evening on a hot day. You could see the shadow of the dock flotation the bottom very clearly. I cannot tell you to this day say why or what drew to even bothered to try that spot. That is totally foreign to my summer fishing pattern.

[holleybob]

No water is Ugly. You never know for sure. Bass are all over. One of my 5lb'ers last summer came out of water not more than 18 inches deep in the evening on a hot day. You could see the shadow of the dock flotation the bottom very clearly. I cannot tell you to this day say why or what drew to even bothered to try that spot. That is totally foreign to my summer fishing pattern.

I remember fishing a tournament on Lake Shelbyville in southern Illinois. A good friend of mine blew his engine a mile out from the launch site just after take off. He put his trolling motor down and just fished. Fished everything he saw all day. He took 3rd place and told me his success was being forced to fish water he never ever would have fished before. Caught fish on bare nothing banks throughout the day. Makes me wonder if these fish are less pressured ? We'll never know.

I do know it's hard to catch them at 40 mph.

[Sprint21fter]

I had a buddy catch a 5lber one day out of dark spot (which turned out to be an old minnow bucket) in the water that was maybe 10inches of water on a mud flat up the kings. He threw a plastic craw up there and as soon as it hit the water the fish ate it and exploded out of there. Sometimes you have to fish extreamly shallow and its like you are fishing competely virgin water. How many people do you see now fishing in the mid-depth range or offshore on our lakes now. They are utilizing their graphs and those fish see alot of baits over the course of the warmer months. If there is any population of fish shallow during those time frames they will bit anything that comes around them.

[jolicious]

All this up and down weather ought to make for an interesting Oakley Big Bass in a couple weeks. I can't wait to get back up to the Rock!