Next Week

[vernon]

My brother and I are headed down Friday morning and will be spending all of next week in the mm 7 area.  Primarily targeting whites, hybrids and hopefully crappie but still get pretty excited any time something pulls our string!  As this fall has been amazingly mild, the water temperatures are much higher than we're accustomed to this time of the year.  Typically, we can find whites and hybrids schooling on top or clustered on windy points but wonder if that will still hold true with the warm water.

As there haven't been any recent posts relative to what we're trying to do I just thought I'd ask if any one has any suggestions that might be of use.  Any advice or guidance that anyone might be able to provide would be greatly appreciated.  

Thanks!

[96 CHAMP]

I was originally planning on coming down Sunday & Monday but have changed my mind again do to the warm weather. But if I was down I think I would still concentrate on windy points and shallow pockets with spinners & topwater poppers and probably jerkbaits to try to pick up some quality whites & or hybrids. You never know what's going to happen till you get out there. A friend of mine and his wife have been catching some nice crappie off there dock in the shallows also. That's all I got for you, maybe someone else can help you out. Looks like the following week for us. Good luck

[fishinwrench]

The whole "windy point" thing is a play on words.  White bass (at least the ones on LO) don't care that a point of land exists. What matters is that there is a large gap between docks there, or a lack of docks all together.  For whatever reason Whites don't hang out under docks.  On this lake where docks line the shoreline, any old piece of bank that is void of docks is just as good as any "point" at any given time as long as there is a transition along it.  Chunk turning to gravel, or a few little cuts along it, those type areas are every bit as likely to have whites on them as the Points are.   

Now a long tapering point that has a shallow ridge jutting out into the lake is One Thing.... but most guys consider every bend of the shoreline as "a point", and on those spots it isn't the "point" that attracts the fish, it is simply the gap between docks because there's only room for one house on a bend like that, therefore you get a gap between docks.   Make sense?

[96 CHAMP]

2 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

The whole "windy point" thing is a play on words.  White bass (at least the ones on LO) don't care that a point of land exists. What matters is that there is a large gap between docks there, or a lack of docks all together.  For whatever reason Whites don't hang out under docks.  On this lake where docks line the shoreline, any old piece of bank that is void of docks is just as good as any "point" at any given time as long as there is a transition along it.  Chunk turning to gravel, or a few little cuts along it, those type areas are every bit as likely to have whites on them as the Points are.   

Now a long tapering point that has a shallow ridge jutting out into the lake is One Thing.... but most guys consider every bend of the shoreline as "a point", and on those spots it isn't the "point" that attracts the fish, it is simply the gap between docks because there's only room for one house on a bend like that, therefore you get a gap between docks.   Make sense?

I guess I should have said windy banks wrench, but you are right on with that, thanks for the update!

[vernon]

4 hours ago, 96 CHAMP said:

I was originally planning on coming down Sunday & Monday but have changed my mind again do to the warm weather. But if I was down I think I would still concentrate on windy points and shallow pockets with spinners & topwater poppers and probably jerkbaits to try to pick up some quality whites & or hybrids. You never know what's going to happen till you get out there. A friend of mine and his wife have been catching some nice crappie off there dock in the shallows also. That's all I got for you, maybe someone else can help you out. Looks like the following week for us. Good luck

Thank you!

[vernon]

4 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

The whole "windy point" thing is a play on words.  White bass (at least the ones on LO) don't care that a point of land exists. What matters is that there is a large gap between docks there, or a lack of docks all together.  For whatever reason Whites don't hang out under docks.  On this lake where docks line the shoreline, any old piece of bank that is void of docks is just as good as any "point" at any given time as long as there is a transition along it.  Chunk turning to gravel, or a few little cuts along it, those type areas are every bit as likely to have whites on them as the Points are.   

Now a long tapering point that has a shallow ridge jutting out into the lake is One Thing.... but most guys consider every bend of the shoreline as "a point", and on those spots it isn't the "point" that attracts the fish, it is simply the gap between docks because there's only room for one house on a bend like that, therefore you get a gap between docks.   Make sense?

Thanks Wrench.  "Point" well taken. Sorry - too easy!

I greatly appreciate your advice and will apply it accordingly during the week. That's stuff that I've never really thought about or considered but, yeah, that does make sense.  Especially on that lake where docks are everywhere.

Thank you for your help. 

[Old plug]

I feel like you all are looking for surfacing fish right? I grant you that is a lot of fun. They can come in though and feed many times and be gone again without you knowing it. So keep a eye on ypur depth finder and a rod rigged with a spoon handy. 

[vernon]

6 hours ago, Old plug said:

I feel like you all are looking for surfacing fish right? I grant you that is a lot of fun. They can come in though and feed many times and be gone again without you knowing it. So keep a eye on ypur depth finder and a rod rigged with a spoon handy. 

Hi Plug.  Yeah, that surfacing deal is pretty much as good as it gets.  I guess we're just afraid that with the water still being so warm that they won't have grouped up enough and finding them will be about impossible.  We've pretty much wasted days at a time chunking and winding miles of shoreline this time of the year while praying for a cold front to come through!  Trying to avoid doing that again if possible.

Thanks for your suggestion - we will definitely watch the electronics closely and keep that spoon at the ready!

[Old plug]

some of my neighbors catch white bass all summer long. They take a big blck jitterbug and tie about 18 inches of mono to the rear hook and put put a crappie jig  on the end of it. They  troll this all over the darn place. They catch crappie also. I just do not have the patients for trolling in spite f being the owner of two downrigger. 

[96 CHAMP]

Try taking a popper & tie a 6' leader or so to back treble hook and put a small 1/16th  hair jig on.