Weekend 5/16 & 5/17

[m&m]

I had the opportunity to fish with my son this past weekend. Fished Saturday around KC from 6am to 1pm and Sunday around Indian Point from 7am to 10am. WT was 70-72 in both places. Water color was very clear in some coves and great color in others. We caught fish everywhere. I posted a couple of pics here because we caught a variety. Here is a fat spot that came on a spook, a nice SM that hit a crank bait and a walleye that hit a small bone colored crank bait. I also caught a couple of nice SM on the Ned, pbj, 1/8 oz head. Missed a bunch on the spook. It felt like they were knocking it out of the way of a bed. Saw fish on beds and also cruising. Had a keeper LM on a spinner bait but didn't get a picture because action was fast at that time. Boat was sitting in 15 fow most of the time and hits came from 5-10 fow. We were in the maroon rajun cajun with the 150 Johnson if anyone saw us fishing.

All in all I'd say spending time with my son, getting my thumb scuffed up from landing fish and no boat trouble makes for a pretty good weekend.

Mike

[Champ188]

Nice trip. Thanks for the report!

[AAD]

Real nice looking smallie. Love catching the brown fish. We will be there in 5 weeks and can't wait.

[alltelracer]

How was the traffic? Bet there were a lot of boats in the area's you were in.

[flyrod17]

Nice fish, secondary points? Main lake?

[m&m]

Boat traffic? Most points around Indian Point had boats coming from both directions. The extreme back of the coves had their share of boats too. We managed to catch them on cove banks changing from chunk to gravel. No one was fishing those banks so we figured there would be some post spawn fish that didn't make it to the points yet. And the shad were on the banks we fished. We did fish some main lake areas around KC bridge and caught a k am and k km. boat traffic was too much so we headed into coves to fish transition banks.

[dtrs5kprs]

Boat traffic? Most points around Indian Point had boats coming from both directions. The extreme back of the coves had their share of boats too. We managed to catch them on cove banks changing from chunk to gravel. No one was fishing those banks so we figured there would be some post spawn fish that didn't make it to the points yet. And the shad were on the banks we fished. We did fish some main lake areas around KC bridge and caught a k am and k km. boat traffic was too much so we headed into coves to fish transition banks.

The cove and creek bite will hold up for quite a while. Long after everyone has become obsessed with the main lake points anyway. It follows the "don't leave biting fish" idea. Don't leave them until they have obviously pulled out to the lake.