5/31 Glaize Report

[Flatbottom Boy]

Headed out to the Glaize on Sunday morning. I was in the water by 530 am and casting a Sammy and Black buzz bait. I think the temps were in the low 50's, I was wishing I had a jacket with the light mist that was coming down. I couldn't buy a bite shallow. I'm sure the drastic changes and inches of rain had something to do with it. The further into the Glaize the dirtier the water was. I traveled up the creek a ways but I didn't really catch fish until the first set of cabins on the far end. After a couple hours of casting top waters without much to speak of I changed it up and pitched jigs around some docks and bluff walls picking up a few here and there, but they were mostly at the front end of docks in the deeper water. Jig fishing is something I'm fairly new to and I gave it a good go, swimming a few with different trailers. Casted a football jig working it both slow and aggressively hopping it on the bottom. Hopefully it was just the conditions because I know the jig is a go to bait for a lot of guys here. I did pick up a few decent fish at the back of docks on a white fluke. I finally switched it up to a C-rig lizard and brush hog with a 3/4 oz weight and fished it deeper than I normally feel comfortable. This seemed to work as I picked up a bunch off a couple bluff walls. I think the water I was in was pushing 25+ feet but I would stair step it down the bluff from the bank to the boat. Most of the time they would grab it while it was falling into deeper water. I might have had two keepers all day though, and I busted my butt until around 3 pm.

After 3 I attempted to chase some crappies until dark. I was pretty much skunked in all the normal spots that hold them. A bunch of shorts and they were biting very light. I might have to start stalking those guys trolling for them! All in all a great day out on the water. Hope this weather stabilizes some and the shallow fish are more willing to entertain us.

A couple fish picks and my fishing partner (in training)

[nomolites]

Nice report; my sometime partner sure likes those quackers too!

Mike

[fishinwrench]

Awesomeness! Aces on the fishin'buddy.

[MOsmallies]

Great report! There was a great topwater bite on certain sections of the lake by the sounds of the US Anglers Choice tournament. Must have just been a location or timing thing. Your fishing buddy is awesome! Love the pic of him in the water! Thanks for sharing

[Flatbottom Boy]

Thats what I have been hearing. Maybe I just stunk up the place!

[Jerry Rapp]

the upper Glaize, above Ft. Wood, has always sort of been mediocre for me, unless you get above PB 1 and plow through the mud. Good fish up there, but they are tough to catch and to get five good ones a day never happened for me. For bass fishing, the Glaize from the Ft. Wood rec area to PB 2 is much better. Fish points and look for brushpiles in 10 to 20 feet of water.

[fishinwrench]

I fished the mid-lake clear water today, and it sucked.

I really am a lousy deep water fisherman and there is no shallow bite to be had in that area now.

I drug C-rigs and piddled around in deep brushpiles until I was totally sick of it, then lit up and ran to some dirtier water and caught 3 good keepers right away.

[Flatbottom Boy]

The area Jerry talked about is where I normally like to fish but the boat traffic isnt very forgiving with my little boat. The water I was in was still much clearer than up the arm where I put in. Maybe I should have concentrated a little harder up the arm closer to the river/creek. That seems the only place I can fish during the summer and still come home with all my limbs and equipment in tact.

[fishinwrench]

Remember what you and I did up here in the upper end the time we took your old glass boat out ?

You should be able to do the same thing on the upper Glaize.

[Flatbottom Boy]

Yes and there are several spots that replicate that same area. Ill give that a solid shot this weekend if I get out