7/24,7/25,7/26, 8/1,8/2

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7/24

WT 88

6:30-11

 the same holes

Shad were still there , it's been almost a month now. 

Showing themselves regularly bass fed pretty good all morning.

 Boated 22, lost 4. 

8 of those were just keeper kentuckies, 3 were small largemouth keepers.. Kept 3 of the kentuckies for lunch ,threw the rest back.

A lot of follows from baby bass and bluegill.

 Caught a few on top first thing then the rest were on the custom red eye again and a 7/16 finesse swim jig.

 Boat sitting in 12-27 fow.

  

lunch

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7/25

Wt89

6:30-10:30

same place because it just keeps producing week after week. some days are slow, some days are a lot of fun!

I have been checking the dam every morning for generation, figured the bite was going to be  slow and it was.

Caught 7 . a keeper  largemouth on a topwater , 3 short lm on the red eye, and a few spots. one was a keeper barely. all released

 

 

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7/26

Wt 90

6:30-11

decided to leave the schoolies alone and commit to the shallow bite with a homemade buzzbait and a custom painted shallow wake/crank.

bite was slow, caught 8 total.  3 small keeper largemouth, 3 short largemouth, and 2 short k's.

to start the buzzbait was working in places like this...they absolutely hammered  it

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when the wind picked up around 9:45 the crankbait on points got the nod

little short guys were fat...

the small keepers were all skinny as heck...

all released

and from now on i take my panfish gear with me every time, i saw dozens of nice gills cruising shallow today that I could have played with, and they looked hungry !

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8/1

wt 86

didn;t see any shad on top, saw no bass feeding,  no fish on the screen shallower than 16', marking a lot suspended in 16-25' now., especially where there's a  long run out. Bait and fish schools. trolled a shallow diving crank, caught 10  short and 1 keeper largemouth. when the rain started, they stopped biting the crank ,got wet and i left

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8/2

wt 86

7-11:30

with the boat sitting in 22 fow trolled for about 2 hours keeping the boat in 22-29fow adjacent to the edge of a flat  bigger than a football field.. went back and forth  with the entire arsenal but only caught 2 small keeper lm. Surface activity was getting good so I started chasing schoolies around. Hooked 4 bass on topwater and boated 1, a short lm.  The chase didn't last very long but it's neat to see insane aerial stunts from bass as they torpedo through the shad. They looked/acted really hungry but I wasn;t catching them very good so I went to the bank to try the shallow bite. Tied on a homemade crankbait I designed for heavy cover and went straight to the back of a cove with a creek channel ,boat in 1-8fow. Caught a little keeper lm on my first cast as the bait rolled off the side of a small tree trunk. Caught a short lm on the second cast, and another on the third cast to the same trees. Spun the chair around and caught 2 more smaller one's behind me. I dropped anchor and fan casted the area. Caught 1 more keeper and lost another decent one that wrapped me up. Pulled anchor to go get my lure so I floated out to the 6-8' range and started catching little kentuckies. c&r all.Realized I was getting pretty sunburned and forgot my cooler  so I called it a day.

[Wart 57]

9 hours ago, Fish24/7 said:

8/2

wt 86

7-11:30

with the boat sitting in 22 fow trolled for about 2 hours keeping the boat in 22-29fow adjacent to the edge of a flat  bigger than a football field.. went back and forth  with the entire arsenal but only caught 2 small keeper lm. Surface activity was getting good so I started chasing schoolies around. Hooked 4 bass on topwater and boated 1, a short lm.  The chase didn't last very long but it's neat to see insane aerial stunts from bass as they torpedo through the shad. They looked/acted really hungry but I wasn;t catching them very good so I went to the bank to try the shallow bite. Tied on a homemade crankbait I designed for heavy cover and went straight to the back of a cove with a creek channel ,boat in 1-8fow. Caught a little keeper lm on my first cast as the bait rolled off the side of a small tree trunk. Caught a short lm on the second cast, and another on the third cast to the same trees. Spun the chair around and caught 2 more smaller one's behind me. I dropped anchor and fan casted the area. Caught 1 more keeper and lost another decent one that wrapped me up. Pulled anchor to go get my lure so I floated out to the 6-8' range and started catching little kentuckies. Realized I was getting pretty sunburned and forgot my cooler  so I called it a day.

Fished around the Spring Creek area today and put a wooping on em. Started out around the Wing & Fin dock at sunrise and  had 4 keeper LM before I hit the island towards point 13 on topwater. Lots of surface activity. Only going to get better.