Aug. 24-26 Dam Area Good Deep Bite

[David Goddard]

Made it down to the lake Friday the 24th at around 4 in the afternoon and tried to find some fish in trees with little success; only catching a few largemouth and spots. Did land a few keepers all on the drop shot.

Made it out early Saturday morning and saw a ton of schoolers till the sun burned the cloud cover off around 9 a.m. caught a nice largemouth on a jig and quite a few brown bass and spots. Found a school of very nice fish that I just couldn't manage to hook up on when they would come up. Had a pig of a smallmouth knock a whopper plopper about 2 feet out of the water when they were schooling. Overall caught almost all of them on a drop shot anywhere from about 28-40 feet. Evening bite was not as strong but it was the same deal with the drop shot on deep gravel.

Sunday morning was my best morning. Caught a nice smallie and some good kentuckys too. Same deal though, drop shot in 30-40 feet. Darker colors worked best for me the whole time. The purple/brown strike king dream shot was my weapon of choice. Still my favorite lake in the state. I'll be back as soon as I can get away from school again. I was elected president of the Mizzou Bass Fishing team so if any of you would like to support us we would obviously appreciate it. Tight lines, Dave Goddard.

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[Smalliebigs]

Sweet report David.... pretty much how catch them down there. I usually nail some nice schoolers early and resort to drop shotting and an HD craw after day light and some Jamaican rum 😜

[David Goddard]

The HD craw is simply an incredible bait. I have colored some up with sharpies to match the hatch on table rock. I love them in rivers and creeks. Haven't tried them much on lakes, however. Next time maybe I'll try a top bottom rig with an HD craw and a drop shot...I like the sound of that already.

[abkeenan]

Nice report. Next time you get around some schoolers that won't hit a topwater, throw a  white or chrome slab spoon at them and let it sink down. Good luck with the fishing club. MIZ!

[Smalliebigs]

19 hours ago, David Goddard said:

The HD craw is simply an incredible bait. I have colored some up with sharpies to match the hatch on table rock. I love them in rivers and creeks. Haven't tried them much on lakes, however. Next time maybe I'll try a top bottom rig with an HD craw and a drop shot...I like the sound of that already.

They have a Hellgramite bait coming out that I have been fishing and it will really fish awesome on a drop shot, even though I have been fishing them on a shakey. 

abkeenan is very correct drop a Binks on them😃

also I may be down with some sort of sponsorship level

[Johnsfolly]

On 8/28/2018 at 3:37 PM, David Goddard said:

 

Great report and some awesome photos! Congrats!

[David Goddard]

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