Sunday Afternoon Report

[ARangler]

We launched at cricket marina around 2. Water temps whereabout 67 degrees at cricket. We figured we would run up and fish are way back to cricket. Ran up to brushy creek and threw a wart and a jig around and nothing. After doing a hour of that we ran to some docks and caught a white bass to start in the stall of a boat dock about 40ft deep. As we where moving around the dock we where marking fish on the cables of the dock 20ft down in 40ft. Was able to pull a 2 keepers of the cables, we fished are way around I to some more shallow stalls and hung my jig of and broke it off so all I had on deck to flip to a dock was a spoon. I was bouncing the spoon in 10 ft of water and was able to pull up a 3 pound class large mouth just bumping the spoon off the bottom. Then after fishing about 5 more docks and catching three more keeper spots. We ran as far as physically possible as u can go up long creek in a bass boat. The shad was going crazy and fish where busting them out of the water every where,managed 5 on a square bill, 1 on a spinnerbait, and are biggest of the day a largemouth pushing four was caught on a red eye shad in less then a foot of water. Fished the back of yocham and cricket creek and only one more bite and it was a decent large mouth that came off at the boat on the red eye shad. Off the water at 6:30.

[merc1997 Bo]

pretty good trip. bet you wish you had went all the way up long creek first.

bo

[Quillback]

Congrats on a great trip for this time of year!

[fishingaddiction]

Good report from the lower end of the lake.

[Sore Thumbs]

Anyone throwing a fluke yet?

[fishingaddiction]

Anyone throwing a fluke yet?

I fished a 5" fluke with a 1/32 weighted hook a few days this past week in the Kimberling City area of the Rock. No takers, but I still feel like it is a good bait to fish when the bass are keying on shad. I worked it shallow with quick jerks, and deeper, letting it sink on slack line then working it back slowly. I went to the fluke when I started catching smallmouth hitting a square bill as it came out of the shallow rocks into deeper water of about 10 to 15'. My thought was that I could work the fluke deeper than the square bill, since the SM were coming up from deeper water to hit the shallow runner.

[Sore Thumbs]

Ok. Thanks. That ole fluke should be ready to go soon.

[jackman724]

Actually caught 2 keeps that helped cash a little check in the Aunts Creek Tourney a couple weekends ago on a fluke...weren't the only ones we caught on it either. Bite was not bangin on it though.