if you can get to them

[Fish24/7]

you can catch them. Fished with a buddy above Theodosia bridge up in the river. I'm not much on canoes but I lasted about 4 1/2 hours before my body said enough is enough. 

He was using chompers on a 5/16 jig, I had a texas rigged flipping tube  a screw in rattle sinker and a rattle inside the tube. We've caught bass in the past fishing tree trunks

when the lake is this high and  we found them on the same pattern again this time. The bigger the tree trunk, the bigger the bass. Nothing huge, but we both caught a limit of 16-18" largemouth. The shady side of the tree trunk in 10' or less is where we made our casts.

wasn't too excited about it to begin with, no shad activity, no carp flopping, no gar popping. Dead quiet... but it turned out alright  might try to get out again tomorrow

[alnt]

Went out on Friday morning between Theodosia and Pontiac.  Water temps around 80-83, around 5 ft visibility.  Tried flipping some brush and fishing pockets, but nothing.  Ended up catching several LMB and kentuckies off of main lake points, either casting or trolling a crank and a couple near main lake channel swings.  Nothing big, maybe up to 15 inches but it was an improvement from what was happening a couple weeks ago.  Also caught a few bluegill up shallow in the evening with really nice colors.  Hopefully things will get a bit more consistent with the water steadily dropping.

[Fish24/7]

that's what I wanted to hear !

re spooled my pan fish reels i'm getting gill fever...

when tiger lilies in the garden start  blooming (now) the bull gills start moving in. They love little tiny crankbaits now on 6lb. When you catch a few on the crank. Go back through with a ds rig w/ powerbait and a crappie tube jig suspended under a float. those 3 methods are my go to for Summer Bull Shoals gills

[uofastudent]

On 6/23/2017 at 9:37 AM, Fish24/7 said:

that's what I wanted to hear !

re spooled my pan fish reels i'm getting gill fever...

when tiger lilies in the garden start  blooming (now) the bull gills start moving in. They love little tiny crankbaits now on 6lb. When you catch a few on the crank. Go back through with a ds rig w/ powerbait and a crappie tube jig suspended under a float. those 3 methods are my go to for Summer Bull Shoals gills

Are you catching them up shallow on main lake pockets, or more in the backs of creeks?

[Rob P]

Only fished a few hours this past weekend.

Caught a few walleye trolling deep, fish were at 20-30ft suspended in 70-90fow.

Fat wobbly cranks worked the best, probably the action in the wobble.

Water was 82-84 degrees and pretty clear of debris.

 

[Fish24/7]

cool Rob, i'd better grab my RR800's next time I go trolling

[Fish24/7]

On 6/25/2017 at 10:22 AM, uofastudent said:

Are you catching them up shallow on main lake pockets, or more in the backs of creeks?

have not been in a few but main lake  try looking around the thermocline now until they wanna spawn. AND  there's always some shallow in the creeks so 

 first thing I'd do there is see if they are on top sipping bugs in the debris mats or in the shade around tree trunks

[Rob P]

46 minutes ago, Fish24/7 said:

cool Rob, i'd better grab my RR800's next time I go trolling

I was using something similar to their Bare Naked Chartreuse/Blue or Blue Moon.

more blue less green...