Dam area 5/25

[m&m]

Patlock and I launched from moonshine ramp at 5:30am Saturday. Fog was south so we headed to the rock lane marina cove.  Boats on first 3 points into the cove from the main lake. We fished a small cove on the right and had a decent 4 hours. Patlock can confirm bill Babler’s post about the smallmouth being angry at the plopper. He was throwing it and a 3 lb SM blew up on it about ten feet from the boat. It was a savage hit and hookup. We saw other blowups as the shad were thick in there. I saw a blowup within casting distance so I tossed a Ned into the center of the water ring. A few seconds later I felt a tick, tick on my line, set the hook and the picture below is what I caught. Nice fight on the 6 lb line. In the 4 hours we caught 15 fish, 4 of them were keepers. Both LM and SM. Caught fish on plopper and Ned but really didn’t thrown anything else. Patlock caught a keeper KY on a Ned and as I was netting it there was another one the same size trying to get at the lure. I tried to dip them both but the one swam deep. At 7:30 am we saw the first wake boat. By 9:30 am we threw up the white flag and surrendered to the boaters. WT was 79.7 when we started and 80.6 when we took out. Water was clear and only one area had green slime.

Mike

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[cheesemaster]

Nice - like you said - top water action is fun.

[big c]

Very nice my friend! We are waiting until Tuesday to give it a try!!!

[m&m]

Me too

Mike

[Quillback]

Glad to hear you and Pat got into them!

[IL Fisherman]

That’s a dandy LM Mike.  I’m gonna try again tomorrow morning.  Gotta head home Tuesday and back to the grind.  

[176champion]

Very fishes!! Thanks for report..

Probably be another week or so before i can get out, this moving is for the birds, and i have closing Wednesday at 4 and 5 pm.