Holiday Island Report - Weekend of 11/6

[Ken Drish]

Got out this weekend and did really well in the mornings on schooling fish with a Gunfish and Spook. Common areas of large flats 2-4' with shad all over them. They would bust the surface and I'd just cast to them and was on. Probably got 20 fish - a few keepers, but tons of fun. Went back out Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning. Found them way in the backs of creeks. Could hardly believe what I saw in one of the creek backs - shad so think I think you could almost stand on them. Have never seen such large schools. Again, just waited for them to bust and then cast to them. Got a few on a Yellow Magic that way too.

Key to note... no love for the Whopper Plopper this weekend... odd.... must have been in the wrong places. Even the busting fish wouldn't take it.

Love fishing these schools!

[96 CHAMP]

sounds like a good time, last weekend I went to LOZ white bass fishing, back in Indian creek, we put the boat in after dark and I had a flashlight, noticed a reflection on the water and there must have been 10s of thousands of them, that is probably underestimated too, everywhere, it was quite a site, woke up the next morning and they were all gone, wander if they were feeding on plankton or what??

[shark bait]

Last weekend the shad were real thick in the backs of creeks too.

[merc1997 Bo]

really nice to see more bass showing up way upstream.

 

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