YEA!!! got to go fishing!

[merc1997 Bo]

the last time i went fishing was at night around the last full moon.  i should have been working today, but took a day off and went fishing.

fished below the 13 bridge.  the wind was a bear, so we had to really earn every bite.  ended up with 7 keepers all around 2 1/2 chunks.  6 k's and one brownie.  depth 50 to 60 ft. deep bottom of creek channels.  lure a 1 oz. NuJig, bluegill, with small trailer.  had to go down to some 20lb. test braid to cut down on wind drag.  the key seemed to be the actual creek lip.  the bass seemed to be right on the edge of the lip or on the creek bottom butted up against the creek wall.

talked to a couple of boat that both were fishing up shallower and that did not have bite all day.  one would think that at least some bass would be some where from surface to the 20 ft. range.  perhaps that might be happening up one of the river arms.

well, i was just happy to go fishing a day.  now, i have twice a much work to get done tomorrow.

bo

[Hammer time]

Bo, you are the man, I fished today as well on proven banks but got skunked, around Indain area. Congrats to you and your ability to find and catch fish!!!!

[Quillback]

Good deal Bo, I bet that wind was something yesterday out on the lake.

[m&m]

Bo,  Thanks for the nice report.  Congrats on the catching. wow that is some deep fish.

Mike

[merc1997 Bo]

56 minutes ago, m&m said:

Bo,  Thanks for the nice report.  Congrats on the catching. wow that is some deep fish.

Mike

just have to fish where the bulk of the food source is.  it would be nice if the bait came up shallow with the influx of water, but did not find any evidence of that.  out in the main lake, you could take off and see a constant live of bait 40 to 50 feet deep.  that pretty much tells the story of how deep or deeper the bite might be.   i do know that in the big m area, the bait seems to be in the 20 ft. range.  once the lake stabilizes some, things could change, but it might not because i think there will still be a fair amount of water running through the lake, and if so, that will have a definite effect on what the lakes food source does, and of course the bass will follow.

bo

[m&m]

Bo, you sum it up pretty well.  Fish mainly eat and spawn.  Pretty simple when you think about it.  If my kitchen was in my basement, I would spend more time down there when I am hungry.  Sometimes we make it a lot more complicated than it really is. 

Mike