Report 9/25/15

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Feels good to be home and be able to give a report. Got on the lake about 4pm out of PC and fished till dark. Went straight to point 8 and found fish under shad at 25-30 feet so I tried to spoon them only small sunfish. So I picked up the drop shot and dragged it from 15 feet out to 30 feet and started catching small spots and small mouth. Then headed back to PC and saw shad on top right across from point 10 so I tried a top water no takers, tried a spoon since there were shad and fish all over the screen no takers. So I started throwing the little worm and lost count after 10 big fat spots.

Those spots are looking like Table Rock Spots, fat as footballs and coughing up shad. Great afternoon, very little traffic and the fish were biting. Big full moon tonight they will probably be full by morning but hard to bet sun up on the lake.

Finding those ambush spots when the shad start moving shallow is key to an hour of a fish a cast action right now IMO.

 

[J-Doc]

Awesome. 

 

Get your boat fixed?

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Somewhat, still hard to idle right after starting, but once it warms up it is doing fine.

[fisherofmen11]

May I ask what the little worm is?

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May I ask what the little worm is?

I was referring to a drop shot worm in general, but I was using a watermelon/purple 4in Cabala's worm. I usually get Largemouth on the purple and the spots shy away but seemed just what the spots wanted yesterday. I can't find the Zoom "old purple" anymore but it was a go to color for me for years.

Tore up half a bag yesterday but left zero in the lake or in fish so I felt good about that!!! Spots had so many undigested shad in their gulit I don't think they could have forced down one more bite.

[mjk86]

You caught small sunfish with a spoon?  

[Dan the fisherman]

Thanks for report.  Fishing has really improved lately. I'm loving it. 

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You caught small sunfish with a spoon?  

I also catch a lot of sunfish on the drop shot, but those small 1/2 oz jigging spoons are sunfish magnets. Some of the sunfish I caught were not much bigger than the spoon. They hit like a 3lb white then all the way up feel like you have wrapped your spoon around the line.lol

I can usually find whites and walleye under those big shad balls with a spoon but this weekend was all bass and sunfish. I was really surprised those sunnies looked so bright when I was catching them in 35 to 45 feet of water right on bottom. They were thick enough to show on the fish finder....

 

 

[mjk86]

Same here on the DS but i dont think ive ever caught a gil on a spoon.  Normally i use a 3/4 or 1oz spoon though.   Thats an interesting pattern there will the smaller jigging spoons.  I fish spoons alot, and will def try my luck at bluegill fishing with em, i bet you get the bigger ones of the school that way.

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Same here on the DS but i dont think ive ever caught a gil on a spoon.  Normally i use a 3/4 or 1oz spoon though.   Thats an interesting pattern there will the smaller jigging spoons.  I fish spoons alot, and will def try my luck at bluegill fishing with em, i bet you get the bigger ones of the school that way.

You would not believe how SMALL most are, guess I have a talent I did not know about. lol  Might be the affect of using braid connected to flouro.  When I get bored I start downsizing to just make something happen and seems the blue gills suffer the most from my efforts. Around point 8 there are some mussel shell beds that seem to hold some nice size gils and sometimes small mouth. This past week end all the fish were small I caught around there.