Smoked them on Bull Shoals 3-7-17

[mixermarkb]

Had one of the best days I've had on Bull Shoals today. 9 bass, for me, 4 for my buddy Dan. All LMB, and 5 really, really solid keepers. Wart, ARig, transitions and secondary points in major feeder creeks. Water temps 53-55, windy as all get out. 

[mixermarkb]

[Ham]

Yep

[mixermarkb]

Oh, and I also had a 21" Walter on a megabass 110, and a nice crappie on the 110 as well. 

[Ham]

Water temps around 55 most places. Some as warm as 57.9 and some as cool as 53.9, but those were wind driven.

I fished with Kris Nault who I met thru Jigfest. He's a very good fishermen. We put about 40 in the boat with one being a 16 inch walleye. I had one LM bass about 10 inches and one tiny spotted bass, but other than that every fish was over 12 inches.

our best 5 were probably 16 lbs or so.

I was hopping and jumping all over giving Kris my Potoniac tour. So we fished a lot of different stuff and I used a lot of different baits. I caught fish on 13 different lures and Kris used slightly different stuff than me to catch his fish.

its really close.

[DChance]

awesome job and thanks for the report. Will be there in 2 weeks and I haven't fished Bull for several years. Going out of the dam area

[mixermarkb]

 

Ham, I'm suprised I didn't see you on the water. We fished from 9:45 till 4, put in at Theodosia and fished down to Music and back. I didn't pick up a spinning rod all day, I was looking for bigger LMB up moving around in the wind, although we were both suprised that neither of us caught a single spot or smallie.

We didn't catch anywhere near 40, I think I may have had a couple more than 9, I was using Dan's numbers, and he was a little sore he wasn't catching the big fish I was (LOL) so we might have had upward of 15, closer to 20 if you count the crappie and wallyeu to the boat. My best five would have been at least 18, if not 20 pounds. I'm pretty sure it was the heaviest bag of 5 I've ever caught. 

 

[mixermarkb]

DChance, you should be hitting some great fishing in two weeks.

It's coming along VERY nicely. You should be able to catch some great smallmouth on or very near pea gravel flats in the dam area, and LMB on secondary points and channel swings in the back 1/3 of creeks.

Make sure and have plenty of Ned rig stuff, 3-4" paddle tail swimbaits and 4" grubs with 1/4 and 3/16 heads. 6 pound line will get you more bites on the spinning rods. Arigs will probably still be working, but I'd be ready with warts, spinner baits, jerkbaits, and maybe even a Redfin or Spook as far as winding baits, and Jigs and Carolina rigs for dredging up the bottom. 

Good luck and make sure and post a report! 

[Ham]

2 hours ago, mixermarkb said:

Ham, I'm suprised I didn't see you on the water. We fished from 9:45 till 4, put in at Theodosia and fished down to Music and back.  

Lol, and I thought I hopped around more than necessary. If you ran all the way to music, your friend was sore from having to run rolling troughs on the big turns. 

I stayed above Pontiac all day. 

[mixermarkb]

He really wasn't sore. We took our time on the rough spots and didn't really crunch very many. We got a little wet right from point 11 to just past Hollingsworth, but the rest of the time it really wasn't that bad of a ride. The old narrow beam Champ lands pretty soft in the rough stuff, he was just probably a lot more sea-sick than your guy was from rocking around in it while trying to fish. Lol