Fish seem to be adjusting

[vernon]

9 hours ago, Alex Heitman said:

I'm hoping we do not get that much rain. KY3 posted a pic on Facebook that shows between 6-8 in. Here it is. If we get that much rain we will be up in the high 920's in no time 

Dang Alex - I didn't mean to make you mad!  You be all like The Great and Powerful Oz and stuff. 

[176champion]

They talking at least 3 inches of rain here...

[big c]

Adjusting?  To my fishing prowess, got schooled today. 

[dtrs5kprs]

22 minutes ago, big c said:

Adjusting?  To my fishing prowess, got schooled today. 

What kind of places did you fish?

[dtrs5kprs]

16 hours ago, Ham said:

In regards to spawning fish, it seems like to me the SMB are less likely or at least a lot slower to follow the water up and spawn on what's normally high and dry.

LMB not so much. 

Have you seen that in your years at TR?

Hard to figure brown fish on that. They do weird things with regularity.

What I would say is most common, is that they will come up and sit in front of any bushes, bank grass, etc. More or less just waiting to eat anything swimming in it out of the bushes. They were certainly doing it today.

[big c]

Tried more of 45 degree banks today. Didnt fish pee gravel, more small to fist size chunk rock. Looked to keep the boat on 25-30 foot within a cast to the bank. Thought we may find some staged deeper. Looked for transition type banks from chunk to slighhly smaller.

 

[big c]

The bucks and females were behind large community style docks and did look to be lg mouths. They kinda looked bewildered, not on the beds but within 3 foot of them.

[vernon]

We started out slower today but that was likely due mostly to me deciding to experiment and try different places and different stuff. Once I went back to Ned and slowed down the fish magically reappeared. After the slow start we actually ended up with more fish than yesterday. 

I also started measuring some fish today and, consequently, need to revise what I said about yesterday. Turns out, I guess I was expecting four pounders or something cause what I thought was two keepers yesterday was probably closer to ten or twelve. 

Anyways, today ended up being really fun. Kathy caught at least a dozen, which, considering the time and effort she put in was pretty good. She went in about 600 and I hung out in a little pocket by the marina and had a blast. Once the shade hit the west bank it was on. Caught about twenty in an hour or so with about eight keepers. They seemed to just be swarming into the flooded stuff and were really aggressive. Quite a few were spitting shad and a couple had crawdads showing. 

Some were grabbing Ned in just a couple feet of water and others came when it slid off the shallow stuff and was dropping off into deeper water. All I really know is it was a bunch of fun and wish it was like that all the time. Of course, slowing WAY down and letting the fish dictate what they wanted was the difference. 

[vernon]

Oh yeah, lots more largemouth and Kentucky's today than yesterday which was almost all smallmouth. 

[big c]

Good info, thanks. We golf in the early afternoon.