Big M 5/18-19

[bferg]

Got on the water Friday at 6:00 PM.  Caught 12 or so fish between then and dark- the best being a nice small jaws. Caught most of our fish pitching a jig or on a spinnerbait.  Got into a few schooling fish in the front half of Viney.

This morning we got on the water at 6:30 and spent an hour sitting on a dock waiting out another heavy rain and lighting storm.  Spent the entire day pitching jigs and throwing spinner baits.  Caught 15 or so- with a couple of keepers in the mix.  Off the water at about 1:30.  The bite really shut down after about 11:00 for some reason- it was cloudy with a good wind blowing.  

Almost all of our jig fish came pitching trees.  Usually in 12-14 feet of water on the deep side of the trees.  Had to pitch it right onto the wood to really get bit.   Spinner bait fish came on wind swept points usually with some buck brush that was totally submerged.  Again 12-14 feet of water.

We got bit on all white and chartreuse and all white spinner baits but the best color was the War Eagle Mouse.  We were pitching 5/16 oz PB&J Jewel Pro Spider Jig.  We tried various color trailers (all Zoom Speed Crawls).  Didn't seem to matter nearly as much as location location location.

I wouldnt say we found a great pattern but we scratched out a good trip.  We have minimal experience pitching a jig into that kind of cover so it was fun to figure it out.  One bite we expected but could never get was dragging the jig through buck brush on the old bank line.  We didn't catch anytbing that way- most our jig fish were tight to hard wood.  

Tight lines.

sorry for the sideways photos!

[176champion]

Thanks for the report!! Nice catch..

Hows the boat ramp there at BIG M

 

[bferg]

 

Thanks for the report!! Nice catch..

Hows the boat ramp there at BIG M

 

Ramp looked good- on my sonar.  The water is halfway up the bathroom building that is at the top of the parking lot.  We essentially launched off the road where it usually goes into the parking lot with no issues.  There was one other trailer there.  Parking will be an issue if more than a few people try to launch there.

[176champion]

Wow ..i would not of thought it was that high.....i put in at Shell Knob yesterday and half of the parking lot is under water.....and now we getting more rain...ugh...

[Quillback]

Nice fish, thanks for the report!