Headed down this weekend

[buckcreekmike]

I'm coming down this weekend and wondering if anyone has been out recently for bass. I read the BFL results and it sounds like the winner was using a creature bait around docks. 

I I wonde if there will be a buzzbait bite yet?  Are they not in summer patterns anymore? Any help would be appreciated. 

Two weekends ago I was at table rock and caught some off a spoon around breakwaters. I wonder if that may work at LOZ. I will give it a try. I will report on how I do. 

[WeekendWarrior]

I am taking it you will be fishing shawnee bend area, there are shad moving in backs of some creeks so I would not be afraid to sling the buzzbait around for a bit. You can catch fish shallow or deep right now. As for the wave breaks you can catch some kentuckies or smaller LM on them for sure.

[fishinwrench]

If you want to have a good NUMBERS day, just go to the backend of Buck cr., and the other coves nearby,  and throw a 1/2oz. Redeye shad off the banks.  Plenty of 12-16 inchers scattered about and they'll hammer that lipless crank all day long.

[peoriaone]

If you want to have a good NUMBERS day, just go to the backend of Buck cr., and the other coves nearby,  and throw a 1/2oz. Redeye shad off the banks.  Plenty of 12-16 inchers scattered about and they'll hammer that lipless crank all day long.

Wrench, any advice on some places / techniques closer to the 43 MM?

[WeekendWarrior]

Took jet ski ride up that way yesterday and you could walk across shad they were so thick around bear bottom resort up to Bollinger 

[fishinwrench]

The backends of any of the bigger coves.  Brushy cr., Alcorn, Bollinger, ect. should be fine.  The wider/flatter the back end = the better.    Keep the boat in 5-8' and just burn the banks with that lipless crank.  Make semi-parallel casts where you can.    You may stumble onto a specific location pattern, if you do.....go with it.  But until then just keep moving and cover the whole area.  

[Jerry Rapp]

The backends of any of the bigger coves.  Brushy cr., Alcorn, Bollinger, ect. should be fine.  The wider/flatter the back end = the better.    Keep the boat in 5-8' and just burn the banks with that lipless crank.  Make semi-parallel casts where you can.    You may stumble onto a specific location pattern, if you do.....go with it.  But until then just keep moving and cover the whole area.  

it makes my arm hurt thing about it.

[buckcreekmike]

Thanks guys for the responses. I will have to break out he old rattle trap type lures. Can't remember the last time I used one, but when I was a youngster that was a mainstay. I will have the wife with me and any time I can get her to catch one it may make her frisky!  If I need to I can usually get some crappie if I get "desparate".  Maybe that could salvage my late night, if you know what I'm saying.  

Have the the big boats hung it up yet?  I think I know the answer to this, but, is there a benefit to being out there before dawn right now?  The reason I ask is because we won't have the kids and sleeping past 7:30am wouldn't hurt my feelings on Saturday morning!

 

[nomolites]

Morning bite was best for me last weekend which "should" have been one of the last big events for the big boats.  I was fishing the point just east of Duckhead Sat. Afternoon and about got thrown up on the rocks by a swarm of 40+ footer headed up to Beavers.   As others have said the shad are thick and right beneath the surface back in the coves; the game fish on the feed are not far below.

 

Mike

[fishinwrench]

it makes my arm hurt thing about it.

Pfft.  It's easier on the arms than that 'youknowhat' that YOU got me started on last Spring.    Throwing that thing all day will make you hurt clear to your knees !

Throwing the Redeye just loosins your wrist up good.  And from the sound of it Buckcreekmike will benefit from that.