3/26 junk fishing report

[nomolites]

Trolled the upper Gravi basin this morning for whites and crappie; no joy.  This year is just not going to pan out like I would like.  Lake still pretty dingy and WT 49 to start around 8ish.  Couple of big floaters up there; saw a couple attentive fellows running WFO miss the biggest by inches and it was a sure lower unit killer - I'm betting it got clipped it in the wind chop today By somebody as it was riding low.  Did not really feel like bass fishing and there is no stickbait water in the lower end or Gravi so I tied on a blue flake Ned and thought I'd try to stumble over a walleye.  Fished my way back up to the N Shore.  Best 5 fish would top 25#, drum that is, not bass.  Either way not what I was looking for.  Caught plenty of fish, mixed bag, but nary a walleye.  Probably caught 25 bass, mostly LM, and one 14" crappie in addition to the aforementioned drum, green sunfish, and bluegill all on chunk rock transition banks with wind.  None of the bass were worth dragging to a scale with the sacks LOZ is producing but fun to catch on light tackle anyway.  Off the lake around 2 PM; WT 52.   Beautiful day on the water.

Mike

K

[fishinwrench]

There is an insane amount of suspended fish (I assume Whites/Crappie) in 26-30' about 1/2 mile to a mile above Coconuts on the Rocky Mount side.     

Where was the big floater at?   Glad I missed it Friday. 

[nomolites]

Right in the middle at the turn south above Coconuts.  Folks are usually looking at tachs and trim gauges rather than watching where they are going Through there, at least the guys I observed seem to be.   Saw those same fish, and that is actually where they normally stage, but they would give me no love today where most years they are absolute suckers for pulled cranks.  Guess I will have to fish shallow if I want to eat fish for the time being.  I could have worse problems!

Mike