Fishing Report Sept 7Th

[Riverwhy]

We put in Sunday morning at 7:00 A:M and quickly motored to a bluff. Second cast with at a grey and black hot-n-tot my fishing partner hooks a large fish. He finally gets him to the edge of the boat and we see it is a large walleye. Three times to the boat and three times he peels off line back down to the bottom. The fourth time up was the trick and we netted a walleye just shy of 24 inches. My fishing buddy is 62 years old and declared that it was more exciting than his first buck.

Later down the bluff I picked up a small walleye on a purple worm with a pink tail. The remainder of the bluff was fished without a strike. Motored over to a shallow point and slowed to a crawl to look at the water and to check my depth. Noticed a few shad hopping out and decided to throw a couple of times. Caught a largemouth on the first cast on a rooster tail and proceded to spend the next three hours trolling down the shallow side of the bank catching dozens and dozens of largemouth. It made little difference what we threw. I caught 5 largemouth in five casts at one point. Everything from a roostertail, hot-n-tot, small gunfish (my favorite because of the top water strikes), beetle spins, small crank baits and finally even a pass through with a big white spinner bait. The biggest bass were only between 17 and 18 inches but the volume of 13 to 15 largemouth was really endless. We added a couple of 12 inch crappie and a nice channel cat to the days catch before we called it a day at noon.

Norfork has kicked my tail more times than I would like to admit but Sunday was finally my turn. I can't figure how a cool front with a northeast breeze could turn on the fish.

[Grubber]

Good report, thanks...you must have been fishing midlake/mainlake, I was not as successful back in the creeks, just a few small fish drop-shotting

[Bluff-Bassin]

Thanks for the post!

[Kramr]

CONGRATS on the walleye. Very nice fish.

This is great! We will be down there this Sunday for the week so any and all reports like this are perfect. Good bad or otherwise!

Weather is supposed to be in the 70's next week.