10/17 Fishing report

[Riverwhy]

I fished the Cranfield area last weekend.   Water temperatures ranged from 69 to 72 degrees.  Water had a little color back in the creek arms.  Either the cold front resulted in a tough bite or I'm just not very good.  We had hoped to find some white bass and hybrids moving back into the creek arms but we had no luck finding them.  We managed four keeper bass with no real braggers.  Altogether we caught over three dozen bass with another four that just didn't quite make 15 inches.  We got lucky with a 3.5lb blue catfish on a white rooster tail, an 11 inch crappie again on the white rooster tail and a 19 inch walleye on a crank bait.  We caught 4 other walleyes but they we a little short.  Our best bite was around secondary points and chunk rock banks in the wind.  The further we went back into the arms the slower the fishing.  Most of the bass were caught on crank baits, megabass jerk bait, and a few on the ned rig.  We did keep several big green sunfish.