Beaver Bass Report For The Past Week

[SR4]

The bass bite has continued to be strong this past week. The rocky branch area has been particularly good on flat pea gravel banks for smallmouth, meanmouths and spotted bass. A 1/2oz wobble head with a plastic crawdad, 1/2 football jig and a 1/4 grub have been working well. The crawdads are an olive color with orange on them right now, so anything green pumpkin or watermelon will work. Grubs, smoke, white or salt and pepper. The fish are for the most part between 20 feet and the bank. The depth seems to change daily so I've been starting shallow and working deep til I find the bite each day. Also catching stripers, whites and walleyes on the grub in the same areas. In the prairie creek area the same baits are working along with a texas rigged 7-10 inch worm in brushpiles. Again, anything green is working along with red shad, plum and junebug at night. My better fish at night have come on a black spinnerbait and buzzbait right on the bank on pea gravel. These are on both long points and inside the points on spawning pockets. I think a lot of the fish are starting to make their way deeper. A dropshot and spoon will catch a few deeper and that bite will continue to get stronger. Big worms, football jigs and deep crankbats should start working soon on ledges or drop offs as the water warms up. By far the best bite for me has been between rocky and prairie creek. Several smallmouths and meanmouths up to 4lbs near rocky branch with largemouth predominantly from coppermine to prairie creek. Water temps 77-79. Also early and late a topwater has been working on bluff ends. That bite has not been as strong as it should be in my opinion, but it is there.

[J-Doc]

This a great report with lots of detail and information. Sure to help many! Thanks for posting!

[Feathers and Fins]

Great report and spot on to what I found yesterday

[Ron Burgundy]

I'm not sure how often these Spotted Bass use this spot but two days ago I was looking with sonar around that buoy that is in middle of lake in front of water intake by dam..I saw a school of fish so I dropped camera down to see what they were and they was Spotted Bass, nice ones, looked up to 3lbs....I'm not Bass fisherman so I moved on.

[J-Doc]

I'm not sure how often these Spotted Bass use this spot but two days ago I was looking with sonar around that buoy that is in middle of lake in front of water intake by dam..I saw a school of fish so I dropped camera down to see what they were and they was Spotted Bass, nice ones, looked up to 3lbs....I'm not Bass fisherman so I moved on.

And that's why they were there. Hiding from all of the bank beaters and tournament guys! (he-he)