7-28-18 fishing report

[Lvn2Fish]

With all the positive reports I thought I would dump the boat in and give her a try. 

Put in at aunts creeks at about 5:45 with sun just starting to peek over the hills. Water temp stayed pretty consistent throughout the day at 84 degrees. Unlike Mr. Babler all off my fish today we’re puking up shad, and by the end of the outing my deck, my shorts , my seats were all covered in a nice white Shad paste . From Aunts I decided to head down lake to the confluence of the James and white . First stop was a long gravel roll off where the channel eventually skirted the gravel . Sitting the boat in about 35 ft casting in 15-20. First fish of the day was a dandy smallmouth that was black as coal . With beautifully bars . Right around 3 lbs . Fat healthy fish . This one came on a football jig. Ended up catching three or four off this roll off . The rest were feisty spotted bass all around 14 inches .

Made a move and really started dialing them in . Fished some secondary roll offs, and they all produced very nice smallmouth, all on the FB jig . Pretty consistent bite around 20ft of water. With the boat sitting in 40ft . Made another move to a secondary point and the schooling started. Caught probably ten in ten minutes. All fat spots. All throwing up profusely as I would swing them in the boat . These fish all came on a super spook jr . Pretty sure you could have caught them on anything resembling the forage they were consuming.

By now it’s about 11 and the wake boats are doing circles all around us. The bite definitely slowed . Decided to hit one more little point up the James and relocated fish sitting in 30 ft . Had a nice flurry from 11-12. All on the football jig again . Was a great day on the water with totals probably around 40 fish for the day . Best five were all brown estimated around 12-13 lbs . 

On a side note , usually the smallmouth I catch on the rock are missle shaped fish long and skinny . These fish were not that way . They are fat stocky fish, obviously eating well . And a few of them were very dark with very colorful bars. The bite stayed fairly consistent all day . The cloudy sky’s probably help us a bit today . Caught serval out of deep trees. I think if someone wanted to keep catching after the sun gets high this would be a solid pattern. Not so much a guide friendly pattern. And you better have a big bag of jigs . Thanks to everyone who has been posting reports figured I would share what I found.

 

[m&m]

Thanks for the information. Sounds like a fun day. 

Mike

[Quillback]

That is some great fishing!

[Guest]

18 hours ago, Lvn2Fish said:

With all the positive reports I thought I would dump the boat in and give her a try. 

Put in at aunts creeks at about 5:45 with sun just starting to peek over the hills. Water temp stayed pretty consistent throughout the day at 84 degrees. Unlike Mr. Babler all off my fish today we’re puking up shad, and by the end of the outing my deck, my shorts , my seats were all covered in a nice white Shad paste . From Aunts I decided to head down lake to the confluence of the James and white . First stop was a long gravel roll off where the channel eventually skirted the gravel . Sitting the boat in about 35 ft casting in 15-20. First fish of the day was a dandy smallmouth that was black as coal . With beautifully bars . Right around 3 lbs . Fat healthy fish . This one came on a football jig. Ended up catching three or four off this roll off . The rest were feisty spotted bass all around 14 inches .

Made a move and really started dialing them in . Fished some secondary roll offs, and they all produced very nice smallmouth, all on the FB jig . Pretty consistent bite around 20ft of water. With the boat sitting in 40ft . Made another move to a secondary point and the schooling started. Caught probably ten in ten minutes. All fat spots. All throwing up profusely as I would swing them in the boat . These fish all came on a super spook jr . Pretty sure you could have caught them on anything resembling the forage they were consuming.

By now it’s about 11 and the wake boats are doing circles all around us. The bite definitely slowed . Decided to hit one more little point up the James and relocated fish sitting in 30 ft . Had a nice flurry from 11-12. All on the football jig again . Was a great day on the water with totals probably around 40 fish for the day . Best five were all brown estimated around 12-13 lbs . 

On a side note , usually the smallmouth I catch on the rock are missle shaped fish long and skinny . These fish were not that way . They are fat stocky fish, obviously eating well . And a few of them were very dark with very colorful bars. The bite stayed fairly consistent all day . The cloudy sky’s probably help us a bit today . Caught serval out of deep trees. I think if someone wanted to keep catching after the sun gets high this would be a solid pattern. Not so much a guide friendly pattern. And you better have a big bag of jigs . Thanks to everyone who has been posting reports figured I would share what I found.

 

"And you better have a big bag of jigs".  well, that might depend on what jig you are throwing.  and, i will just leave it at that😃.

bo

[Lvn2Fish]

5 minutes ago, merc1997 said:

"And you better have a big bag of jigs".  well, that might depend on what jig you are throwing.  and, i will just leave it at that😃.

bo

It’s not the trees that are grabbing them. There’s a lot of line around . Where do you purchase those 1oz grass jigs at ? 

[Guest]

6 hours ago, Lvn2Fish said:

It’s not the trees that are grabbing them. There’s a lot of line around . Where do you purchase those 1oz grass jigs at ? 

tackle warehouse has them or you can get them at nutechlures.com, or come by the house if you are in cassville.

bo

[vernon]

Most weedless jigs and heads I've ever used.

In fact, I didn't realize that when I bought 20 or 30 of 'em that I had purchased a lifetime supply for about a dozen people.

Gonna have to figure out who to will a bunch of these things to..........

[Bill Babler]

Great report on the jig, I knew they would be all over it, but have just had up and down fishermen.  I believe I may have some casters later this week and we will sling it around  some.  Thanks