7/17- 7/21 report

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7/17

Wt 86

6 to 10am

decided to give the spot 1 more chance to redeem itself. Threw a spook shallow around a couple points first thing just to see, nothing.  Behind me the fry schools were thick and on the top so I trolled a shad rap and immediately caught a keeper spot out in the channel. Stayed  in the channel back and forth catching 3 more keeper kentuckies. Along came some surfacing , pretty large schools, about the size of a pontoon boat. Tried chasing them around and threw the lipless and got 2 more keeper spots doing that. and lost 2 to jumps.I  was seeing less bait on the surface. 

 

Went back to trolling the rap and caught a short largemouth and some little spots.  I think I missed about an hour  of the bite.Figured the bite was done, warming up fast.. Back to the first 2 points I threw the spook on and there were a  bunch of gills waiting. A couple hand size, most were palm size. 1/32 hair jig on a beetle spinner. All released.

 

 

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7/18

Wt 86

6am-10:30

same place again, slight north breeze at first, fishing was slow. The wind died, it got flat calm, and they went to shredding!

There was about a 1/2 mile stretch of extremely scattered surfacing fish on all sides of the boat.  I trolled the lipless and caught about half of my catch that way. The other half chasing them down and making long casts with 7'4" m spinning rod and 10lb braid for distance.

Pretty decent bite until 9:30. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 20. All largemouth this time. Just 3 small keepers  All released. Still haven;t figured out what happened to the bigger keepers i was catching here earlier in the month.

boat sitting in 10-17 over a ditch  adjacent to the channel. I know this area very well and the last few trips have been without electronics. Next time I'm bringing the finder so I can see what's really going on down there. Maybe get a screenshot or two.

. That little  red eye shad I painted  has been working well

haven't seen another boat around,  and this is the 8th time there.

[Rob P]

I'm gonna try trolling the lipless cranks this weekend.
 

"haven't seen another boat around,  and this is the 8th time there. "

That's why I love this lake!

 

 

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7/19  6:30-10:30

Wt 87

same place, bass were so slow I wish I had brought my pan fish gear ;(

flat calm, bait and fish showing top to bottom. Very little chasing going on today. Gar were very aggressive again had follows on about every cast and caught 3 about 17" long.

I threw a  jr spook, 1/2 oz.spoon,lipless crank,spinnerbait and trolled a lipless and a shad rap.

caught 3 short lm on the red eye in the first 20 minutes, then about 2 hours later hooked and lost a keeper trolling a shad rap that kept jumping like a tarpon!

fish were still hanging out there a little deeper than yesterday, it pretty much looked like this on the screen when you stayed in 15-22fow close to a ditch or the channel

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7/20

Wt 87

7am-11

well  it was about like yesterday but no gar. spent 3 hours just trolling a long stretch of channel. Still marking tons of fish and bait there. caught 2 little lm on a custom painted spoon..No bites on the red eye. Saw dozens of schools of shad fry on the surface and nothing but a handful of singles chasing them all morning. The last hour I fished for gills and missed more than I caught and that shallow bite wasn't happening either.Maybe tomorrow will be better.

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7/21

Wt 87

6-10:30

same place, better than yesterday. Took some advice from Rob and boated 11 today. All on  top water. 5 short spots, 4 small keeper largemouth, and 2 small one's. All released. Had several wolf packs of 3lb class lm bass following hooked fish to the boat but never hooked any of those. Didn;t lose any fish today. Had about a 30 minute window of catching then it got bad fast.

 With my back to the bank ,boat sitting in 8-12 fow. casting out to 20+. Still lots of shad, saw several single  blow ups from some  really nice bass but no schooling chasers today. No bites trolling shad rap or the red eye.

Thanks for the tip man!