Mhyde Posted September 10, 2018 Posted September 10, 2018 Bass fishing report in one word.....TOUGH!!! This weekend was by far the toughest bite I have come across all year. Fished Saturday and Sunday and if I told you we caught 25 fish total both days I might be lying. The list of what we didn't throw at them is much shorter that what we did. I DID NOT throw a Ned rig, jerk bait and an A-rig, I think I threw everything else. put in at Hawker Saturday morning an fished midway into Sons Creek to into Hawker. caught maybe one keeper on a jig (didn't measure it) and a few shorts on a spinnerbait & a jig did catch 2 13" walleye on squarebill in 2ft of water. Sunday put in at Old State and made a donation to the Joe Bass tournament. Sunday fished just north of the mile long bridge to down in Birch branch. caught all of our fish in Birch on a jig and plastic worm. bite was very light and went through 2.5 bags of jig trailers between us. we really had to soak the bait for them to bite it. only weighed 2 keepers for 3.29. I will say this as disappointing as the weekend was it was still better than sitting in my office at work. If you have figured out the bass fishing on Stockton this past week I salute you! I am ready for a few trips to Table rock or somewhere else for a while. also if you are interested the Don Berry Fishing Radio show that is on 98.7 fm out of Springfield on Wednesdays from 3-4pm is efforting to book the Fisheries Biologist for Stockton in the next couple of weeks and if you can't listen you can watch the show live on Facebook or later in the night when they repost it or any other of their shows since they have started Facebook archiving them on their Facebook page!
redshad Posted September 10, 2018 Posted September 10, 2018 I will have to give Scott a shout out and see exactly when he will be on. I will post when I find out.
Walcrabass Posted September 11, 2018 Posted September 11, 2018 I hope the subject of the rising Kentucky Bass population on Stockton is mentioned on the broadcast. I spoke to a friend today that fished a tournament last weekend at night. They caught a boat load of short Kentuckies. I do not want to see Stockton turn into Table Rock part 2. Redshad maybe you can mention this to "Scott" when you speak to him. Walcrabass
redshad Posted September 11, 2018 Posted September 11, 2018 I have been catching more smallies than kentuckies up their. Last Saturday we caught 16 and had 15 LM and 1 spot no smalls but wasn't in the area for them. I think a lot of it is how you fish. If you go drag a ned around all day you will catch spots and smalls. Chunk a big bussbait or 10-12" worm you will catch more LM. just my 2 cents.
Walcrabass Posted September 12, 2018 Posted September 12, 2018 Redshad, You are correct. Use the bigger baits and catch the bigger fish....................... until of course there are more small fish in the lake ( Kentuckies ) than there are big fish ( Largemouth and truly mature Smallmouth ) like the situation is at Table Rock. The funny thing about it is that other states have already figured this out and are doing something about it in their Species/Length limits concerning the Kentuckies. I am deeply concerned for Stockton. Just a few years ago Bass Fishermen were saying that they didn't even believe they existed in Stockton. Now they are saying something completely different............................. Concerned, Walcrabass
Mhyde Posted September 12, 2018 Author Posted September 12, 2018 8 minutes ago, Walcrabass said: Redshad, You are correct. Use the bigger baits and catch the bigger fish....................... until of course there are more small fish in the lake ( Kentuckies ) than there are big fish ( Largemouth and truly mature Smallmouth ) like the situation is at Table Rock. The funny thing about it is that other states have already figured this out and are doing something about it in their Species/Length limits concerning the Kentuckies. I am deeply concerned for Stockton. Just a few years ago Bass Fishermen were saying that they didn't even believe they existed in Stockton. Now they are saying something completely different............................. Concerned, Walcrabass As far as the Spots the MDC did some surveys a few years ago on them, some of you may have gotten stopped at a ramp and took one of the surveys. I was told that they concluded that for now they need to just keep everything the same and that one concern for not changing any regulations on Spots were due to the fear of anglers not being able to tell the difference in a 12" spot and a 12" LM and that more LM would be filleted out in error. I don't if any of that is or was true that's just what I was told when I asked. @Jmontgo1246 and I caught a TON of short SM this year during the Friday nighters, and I noticed a lot more legal SM were being brought to the scale at weigh in this year. Don't know if that says anything to the health of the SM in Stockton, but is encouraging to see more legal smallies being caught, I think I only caught maybe 3 legal ones all of 2017. I'm no expert by any stretch of the imagination, but it just seems like in the last two years or so as soon as the spawn has completed Stockton has gone into a huge funk, as far as the bass fishing. you read reports and see photos on here and other places of REALLY nice bass caught from end of February to mid May and after that no ones seems to be able to find the mature fish consistently. I don't know if it's weather or dam generation schedule or just fishing pressure, but like many others have said, where are all he 3. to 4 pounders gone?? I would not think its a spawn issue since we have had several years of high water in the spring. I just don't know.
lmt out Posted September 13, 2018 Posted September 13, 2018 Seems like we catch more spots than anything while walleye fishing.
Walcrabass Posted September 13, 2018 Posted September 13, 2018 Guys, I remember the surveys very well. I also remember writing to someone saying that if the fishermen cannot tell a spot from a largemouth then how are we expected to tell a smallmouth from a largemouth????? This length limit thing on the Spots needs to be addressed immediately. Do a little bit of math on the spawn of a species that is not harvested and then take a deep (gasping) breath at what you find. NOT GOOD.................. Wally
Mhyde Posted September 13, 2018 Author Posted September 13, 2018 JUST FYI 17.84 POUNDS WON JOE BASS SUNDAY
Walleyedmike Posted September 14, 2018 Posted September 14, 2018 On 9/12/2018 at 7:54 PM, lmt out said: Seems like we catch more spots than anything while walleye fishing. Us too. WM
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