Whopper Plopper Madness Dam Area

[Mart]

Finishing up a week of family fun in paradise and have some good fishing to report.  I tried Swing Impact swim baits, PBJ FB Jigs, and the Ned on gravel points with limited success.  One or two  fish with a lot of casts in between.  However, two patterns really paid off for me.  White War Eagle 7/8 oz jigging spoons in front of deep boat docks and over trees worked well for nice KYs.  I had one morning that I caught 14 from 5:30 until 8:30 am with about half of them keepers well over 2#.  The fun bite was the Whopper Plopper in the same areas from 5:30 until about 7.  I used "I Know It" color in size 90 and they just ate it up.  21 two days ago and today 15 before the rain.  Mostly little guys but an occasional keeper and this morning a 4# Largemouth.  Back to STL tomorrow and work on Tuesday ... guess it can't be all play.  I love this lake! 

[Sore Thumbs]

Nice!

[snagged in outlet 3]

That's some sweet action!!

[abkeenan]

Very nice report. Congrats!

[Quillback]

Seems to be a revival of the Plopper bite.  Nice fish!

[Quillback]

Speaking of Ploppers, 2 weeks ago I was throwing a 90, the only one I have in that size.  It broke off on a cast and landed in the water, no big deal I thought, I'll just troll over and get it.  I start moving towards it, and I see a fish swirl on it, Plopper disappears.  Hung around for a couple of minutes to see if it worked loose from the fish and float up.  It never did reappear.

[jim m]

sounds like you had a great time

[snagged in outlet 3]

2 minutes ago, Quillback said:

 

Speaking of Ploppers, 2 weeks ago I was throwing a 90, the only one I have in that size.  It broke off on a cast and landed in the water, no big deal I thought, I'll just troll over and get it.  I start moving towards it, and I see a fish swirl on it, Plopper disappears.  Hung around for a couple of minutes to see if it worked loose from the fish and float up.  It never did reappear.

 

Ha Ha.  Bad luck but actually pretty cool story.

[likinmo]

Thanks for the awesome report I'm still down here till next Friday im night fishing tonight.. So now I'm gonna go get some ploppers lol... I've got some jigging spoons. How deep were the bass around the deep boat docks? On bottom or suspended? Thanks

[SplitG2]

Fished from the dock in the same area late morning in the rain and Caught a few spots busting shad during lull between down pours.  It's a fun bait fish.