May 1st Report

[Jbrant]

Put in at the dam around 7:30 this morning. Water temp was around 61 and had visibility of around 12'. Lots of green slimy moss on the bottom. Immediately found some beds with fish close. Mostly smaller fish cruising the shallows with some bigger fish mixed in. Very few on the beds and nothing locked on. Big shad and carp also all over the shallow water (all day).

Messed around at the dam for about an hour looking for something that might bite (they mostly ignored our lures and weren't real bothered by us being close). Decided to run to dirty water up the Lindley. Made a run down past the swimming beach and still found visibility to be at least 8'. Kept moving down towards the coves in front of the bridge and still found the water at around 8' of visibility. Finally found some dirtier water in the longer coves/creeks around Nemo. Made it down as far as Haverstick (water pushing 67 in the afternoon).

Didn't catch anything big (maxed out at 14.5"). Probably caught 12-15 and missed many more bites than that. Broke a couple off, had a few come off, and generally just struggled to get them stuck. Caught and had several bites on the jig which were very soft. A couple of them I didn't know were there other than by my line moving. Had a couple swim with it briefly and then my line would jump (guessing that was them spitting it out). Only agressive bites were on a jerkbait. Had a couple hammer it. Weird bite all day.

We caught fish on jigs, jerkbaits, shakey heads, texas rigs, and a swimbait. Caught several in the shade of docks and most in deeper water close to channel banks. Didn't catch anything exceptionally shallow (though we saw fish cruising in the shallows and around beds all day long). Had one fish in the back on Nemo that I messed around with for 7-10 minutes and never left my sight. Swam around the boat, by a dock, back to the shallows and everywhere in between. It was a bigger fish - guessing it's getting close to spawning - but I'm far from an expert on the spawn.

[sandbc]

nice report. your lite soft bite is decribed the same way by someone on the stockton forum. interesting

[justintrane]

The bite was better around Bolivar landing. Put in at nemo and fished spots all the way up to Bolivar landing. Ended up catching my limit but had to work for them.