Quillback Posted May 7, 2018 Posted May 7, 2018 Launched the boat at 0600, clear skies, just a little bit of a breeze in spots, water was greenish stained with 6 feet or so of viz, with scattered debris floating around. Mike M was in the boat with me. We went up Indian creek a ways intending to bass fish, but we started seeing stripers chasing shad on top, so needless to say, we started throwing top waters at them. Had some pretty spectacular blow ups on the walk the dog baits, but most were missing the bait, had a couple knock my spook three feet in the air, always fun just to see the blowups. We boated a couple of 5 pounders, and I lost a bigger fish in the trees. The stripers stopped once the sun hit the water, so back in the cove we went to bang the cover for bass. Couldn't find much of bite shallow, we caught a few spots on various baits, c-rig lizard, shaky head mainly but just weren't getting a whole lot of action. We decided to fish some bare, rocky smallmouth banks with Keitechs and we started to pick up a fair number of smallies, Mike caught one that was just short of 18" and had another to the net that got off that looked to be a bit bigger. For whatever reason the smallies were up shallow, 3-10 FOW for the most part. We ended up with about 25 bass, maybe 7 or 8 keeper sized smallies. Water temps got as high as 68, air temps hit 88 when we left. This post has been promoted to an article Dan the fisherman, bfishn, jolicious and 2 others 5
Members breeves2245 Posted May 7, 2018 Members Posted May 7, 2018 I'm trying to get acquainted more with Beaver. Fished the islands yesterday at Hwy 12 and had a good time with some small bass, a smallmouth and it got real exciting when I hooked up with an eight pound striper in my ned rig. Spinning rod with six pound test. I want to explore around the Indian Creek area. Where is the best place to launch? It's about the same distance to Prairie Creek or Indian Creek from my house in Bella Vista, so I want to start splitting the two locations.
Dan the fisherman Posted May 8, 2018 Posted May 8, 2018 I really enjoy ur post Quill. Thank u. They get me fired up!! Quillback 1
Quillback Posted May 8, 2018 Author Posted May 8, 2018 On 5/8/2018 at 2:53 PM, jmcarrol said: What jighead are you using for Keitechs? Expand Dirty Jigs Guppy head. Has a 1/0 hook which is a good hook for smaller baits like 2.8 and 3.3 Keitechs. I can only find them at Tackle Warehouse.
Quillback Posted May 8, 2018 Author Posted May 8, 2018 On 5/7/2018 at 10:27 PM, breeves2245 said: I'm trying to get acquainted more with Beaver. Fished the islands yesterday at Hwy 12 and had a good time with some small bass, a smallmouth and it got real exciting when I hooked up with an eight pound striper in my ned rig. Spinning rod with six pound test. I want to explore around the Indian Creek area. Where is the best place to launch? It's about the same distance to Prairie Creek or Indian Creek from my house in Bella Vista, so I want to start splitting the two locations. Expand I have done the striper on Ned thing myself a couple of times this winter. Lots of fun if you like getting dragged around the lake. 😁 I launch at Indian Creek, it's a bit sheltered from a south wind and the road in isn't too bad. Lost Bridge North is a bit closer to BV, but the road in has some sharp curves and is steep. Not good for my trailer brakes. Lost Bridge South is good to launch from if you want to fish the Clifty area.
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