jolicious Posted July 20, 2014 Posted July 20, 2014 The bass on Grand Lake are meaner than Beaver Lake Bass. My partner and I just got home from this weekend's big bass event. We didn't weigh a fish. Never boated anything over 3.0 (on our little hand held scales). I am going to guess we caught 20-25 keeper blacks between Saturday and Sunday. Buzz baits in the morning anywhere we saw shad (which was just about everywhere!). When the sun came out, I flipped a drop shot or a Jika Rig into shady corners of docks while partner fished out deep with Carolina rigged lizard (watermelon red, I think). I was drop shotting either Mr. Frank's (Swing Oil Baits Owner) finesse worm (smoke/purple) or a zoom finesse (Green Pumpkin Magic). The Jika Rig had a big plum-colored 7" or 8" ribbon tail worm. Between the two of us, we lost 4 fish within 5'of the boat that we could see and swear to as being 5+ pounds. Two more broke off, but we never turned their heads, so we don't really know what those fish were. We are pretty sure that we had a few money-fish on our lines, we just couldn't get the big girls in the boat haha! The best docks would be 20'-25' deep in front, but I'd pull the fish out from behind boats in stalls - fish were in 12'-15' I'd say. We fished all of time from Rapier to the intake across from the dam. Congratulations to all who won anything this weekend on Grand!!
Quillback Posted July 21, 2014 Posted July 21, 2014 Sorry to hear you guys did not cash a check, but it sounds like some good fishing nevertheless. I keep telling myself I need to get over to Grand!
5bites Posted July 21, 2014 Posted July 21, 2014 Good report! How was traffic? I was gonna take my boys down there to get an idea for next weekend but I figured the traffic was going to be pretty bad.
jolicious Posted July 21, 2014 Author Posted July 21, 2014 The area we fished was awfully rough water by 9:30-10:00 each morning. The wakes just serum to carry all the way through the coves...
5bites Posted July 21, 2014 Posted July 21, 2014 I guess that aquapalooza was going on too. I'm glad I went to stockton which was plenty busy for me. Did you catch any suspended fish? I usually can get a quick limit fishing for suspended dock fish but they just don't weigh enough.
jolicious Posted July 22, 2014 Author Posted July 22, 2014 I'd imagine a few of the fish we caught were suspended (drop shot was 18-24")
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