fishing 6-15-15

[merc1997 Bo]

went down stream to chase some brownies and try out a new 1/2 Elite Series GrassJig.  caught a lot of shorts, which was still a hoot, and also allowed me to see that the jig hooked as it should.

we did end up with 5 keeps.  three brownies and a couple of bonus 4 lb. lmg's.  where we did find our bites was in very specific places, and i am sure that i probably raided some of dave's places.  most bites occurred in the 15 ft. range.  we tried enough places to find out that where we did find bass to catch and seemed to be bunched up, they were all exactly pretty much the same specific type of place.  you had to have that semi-flat areas with lots of water butted right up to it.

attached are a couple of pics of the bluegill skirted jig and blue trailer that seemed to to the trick.

bo

 

[dtrs5kprs]

I'm sure you did. There aren't that many of those places, but they are brown fish magnets. 

We left them alone today. Was afraid they might be boiled or poached before they got in the boat.

Curious, did you see any sign of a thermocline?

[merc1997 Bo]

2 hours ago, dtrs5kprs said:

I'm sure you did. There aren't that many of those places, but they are brown fish magnets. 

We left them alone today. Was afraid they might be boiled or poached before they got in the boat.

Curious, did you see any sign of a thermocline?

no, i did not, and after dark, most of the shad and fish were at 15 ft. to the surface.  the surface temp was showing to be 87, and that was when we left at 12:30.

bo

[dtrs5kprs]

5 hours ago, merc1997 said:

no, i did not, and after dark, most of the shad and fish were at 15 ft. to the surface.  the surface temp was showing to be 87, and that was when we left at 12:30.

bo

Good. Thought maybe it was just me. Explains the relatively shallow bite.

[Bill Babler]

Beck told me yesterday he was seeing some clutter at 22' and thought it might be starting there around Kimberling.    Turn your graph was up and see if you can see it building.  I'm out of there tomorrow and I'll also take a peek, it should be there.  He said Surface water when it got off yesterday was 85 degree.

[merc1997 Bo]

1 hour ago, Bill Babler said:

Beck told me yesterday he was seeing some clutter at 22' and thought it might be starting there around Kimberling.    Turn your graph was up and see if you can see it building.  I'm out of there tomorrow and I'll also take a peek, it should be there.  He said Surface water when it got off yesterday was 85 degree.

bill, we really did not get out early enough to check the thermocline during daylight hours.  normally at night the clutter on the graph will end pretty close to thermocline.  i could see a 22 ft. thermocline  because at night bass will typically move up just a bit at the beginning of the night and can get shallower than that for a brief active eating stint.  brownies most of the time seem to roam shallower than the blacks.  both of the nice lmg's we caught came from closer to 20 ft., which again fits in with the black typically being deeper than the brownies.  we were just having way too much fun catching the brownies to make us move out a bit deeper.

bo

[dtrs5kprs]

2 hours ago, Bill Babler said:

Beck told me yesterday he was seeing some clutter at 22' and thought it might be starting there around Kimberling.    Turn your graph was up and see if you can see it building.  I'm out of there tomorrow and I'll also take a peek, it should be there.  He said Surface water when it got off yesterday was 85 degree.

It's likely to be a mob scene tomorrow with the high school derby. If you're by Beck's say howdy. 

[OldMillRoad]

Fishing a little derby tomorrow.   I don't know which will be more fun, dodging boats or watching the skin melt off the bone.

[m&m]

2 hours ago, OldMillRoad said:

Fishing a little derby tomorrow.   I don't know which will be more fun, dodging boats or watching the skin melt off the bone.

OMR, now that is funny!!!

Mike