Yesterday and today, Indian Creek area.

[Quillback]

Yesterday I fished with my buddy Mike.  With it being ridiculously cold for April 4 we did a delayed launch at 11 AM to let the temps get above freezing.  It stayed chilly out on the water all day with a brisk wind blowing.  However, it was sunny and I am learning that when the water is cold, smallies like sunny banks with some breeze.  The fishing was pretty darned good, took us a bit to figure things out, we started throwing Neds but the fish were just not biting them, we got 2 Ned fish in the first hour, and I decided to throw a Keitech, been hearing a lot of good reports coming out of Table Rock on Keitechs so decided to throw one.

Caught a 2 lb. smallie on my first cast with it, then a 2 lb. spot on the next cast.  I think I caught about 10 in a half hour before Mike decided it might be a good idea to throw a Keitech himself.  We had a good bite on them for the rest of the day, as always some banks held multiple fish, some banks not.  We slow rolled them, keeping them close to the bottom and doing a lot of reeling and pausing to let the bait drop.  Bites came on the retrieve and on the drop.  Color didn't seem real important, Rainbow Shad, and Sexy Shad being two good colors and we got bit on 1/4 and 3/8 oz heads.

Final score was 35 bass, 2 stripers (one was 10 lbs.) and 2 walleye.  Had a bunch of keeper sized bass, maybe 10 smallies and 10 spots that were in that 2-3 lb. range.  No really big ones, but some nice fish.  Best day for bass I have ever had in Indian Creek.

 

 

Today I went by myself.  Launched early, morning was gray and calm.  The fish didn't like it.  Never got into them at all like yesterday, but the bite did pick up a bit around 11 AM when the sun poked through the clouds and the wind picked up.  I caught 10 bass, mostly smallies, several in the 15-17 inch range, all on Keitechs.  No Ned bites at all which surprised me.  Had a bit of a multi-species thing going, caught a hybrid, a drum, and a walleye.  

WT's were 50-52.  I could see down about 14 feet in the dam area, Indian Creek is stained green.

Smallies are just footballs right now.

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[bferg]

Awesome report and great fish Quill... but how am I supposed to get my Big M reports if you keep fishing Indian Creek?

[Dan the fisherman]

Great job.  Ur killing them up there.  Ive always had pretty good luck up by the dam, especially in the spring.  Keep it up Quill !!

[Quillback]

8 hours ago, bferg said:

Awesome report and great fish Quill... but how am I supposed to get my Big M reports if you keep fishing Indian Creek?

Hard to make the extra 30 minute drive to Big M with Beaver fishing like it is.  

[Sore Thumbs]

Good job man!

[sfiser]

what is the jighead you are throwing those on and is that the 3.8 keitech or the 2.3?

 

[Quillback]

1 hour ago, sfiser said:

what is the jighead you are throwing those on and is that the 3.8 keitech or the 2.3?

 

Dirty Jigs Guppy heads - you can get them with a 1/0 hook which is great for the smaller Keitechs.  Only place I can find them is Tackle Warehouse and they are about sold out of them, and are sold out of the colors I want, I don't know that color is that important, but the smallies did seem to like chartreuse.   I used both 3.3 and 2.8.

[sfiser]

53 minutes ago, Quillback said:

Dirty Jigs Guppy heads - you can get them with a 1/0 hook which is great for the smaller Keitechs.  Only place I can find them is Tackle Warehouse and they are about sold out of them, and are sold out of the colors I want, I don't know that color is that important, but the smallies did seem to like chartreuse.   I used both 3.3 and 2.8.

thank you sir!