April on Bull

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4/5

Wt 56-63

to heck with yard work and gardening right now, they are biting!

 

jerkbaits and custom jigs. the Thanksgiving craw skirt I made was getting the job done.

my deepest bite came on the jig t around 12', the rest were shallower.

color seemed to make a big diff on the jerkbait, tried several colors of the same bait w/o a bite then tied one I painted  that had some iridescent  orange and it worked. 

had a fun day! didn't slay them by any means, but was happy with the size overall,

here's a few of the bigger keepers....

 

(all released)

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Nice work!

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4/8

Went with a buddy in his boat, no electronics so i don't have a water temp update.

That same custom Thanksgiving jig and a gold/white homemade buzz bait were getting bit early before 10:30am. Fished from 8:30-12 , got a late start

 SHAD EVERYWHERE flipping on top adjacent to flats.  Had my first topwater fish of 2019 on the buzzer, a 13" spot crushed it when I ran the bait into a piece of wood. Caught 2 more short ky's on the buzzer. Had one big bass just flush the toilet under it! It sounded like the thrones at Wal Mart, WHOOSH!!! but it never touched the bait, back up bait didn't work ,and that was the last bite on top water too. Went to a steeper bank, picked up the jig , first cast bounced off a rock on the bank hit the water and instantly I got this decent lm.

He caught the identical twin of my jig fish with a swimbait while I was unhooking mine.

Caught 3 more small keeper largemouth that just bumped 15" with the jig, one was for sure a female that had just spawned by the looks of her privates hehe. . 

Didn't see but 1 empty bed and with 8 generators running practically all day every day I didn't expect to see many fish up cruising , and hence we never saw a bass. 

As the sun got higher and the North wind picked up the topwater and jig bite fizzled out. He wanted to move to another spot, but I just picked up a rod with a susp jerkbait on it, swung my chair around and put my back to the bank and made a long cast out over the channel. About half way back to the boat a 14" spot nails it, got her in my hand , threw her back, next cast wham , another keeper kentucky, then another, and another, 4 keepers on 4 casts. 12-13"ers. Then not another bite on the stick for like 15 minutes so I pulled up the troller and we motored about 50 yds to the first point towards deeper water.

  He flipped and pitched the brush while I switched to a floating jerkbait . He never got a bite flipping, but on my second or 3rd cast in the bushes I had a short lm in the boat. Wind was getting strong, 12v trolling motor, well you know , boat positioning was tough and had to make several drifts across the point , we both got hung up a couple times haha, but if i could get that rogue rolling right beside a bush a bass would eat it.  They were all males about 12-14" probably making beds is my guess. Switching out the trebles  with single hooks on your floating minnows will make them less prone to snags in heavy cover..

I had at least 15 fish, he caught 1. All released. 

 

 

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4/12 

wt 57-59

short trip 8-11am

cold front knocked the water temp back just a little and I could tell the bass where i have been fishing were a little sluggish in the morning. Still plenty of bait around but not the activity like I had been seeing. Right away i noticed the water clarity had improved, not good . Tried a topwater for about 30 minutes not even a look. Switched to the jig , and tried flipping shallow wood and fished it in some deeper water on rock , nothing in the clearer water. 2 hours in w/o a bite had me concerned. What tipped me off was a few shad kept flipping once in a while in one little area so I tied on a swimbait, turned on the electronics and noticed the shad were in a little tiny ditch leading up to a large flat. Water was more stained too, and that's where i got my first bite in about 5' of water. Wind couldn't make up it's mind which direction it wanted to blow North, North west, southwest back and forth, which made presenting my bait a little tricky at times. Worked that area for about an hour with the swimbait and caught 3 lm in the 3lb range.  so that's where my day ended. Would have liked to have stayed there longer to see if more fish moved up as the water temp warmed up in the afternoon but i didn't feel well enough to stay ;( i'll get 'em next time! (forgot the phone no pics)

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4/23 4/24 4/26

Fished with a buddy all 3 days out of Theodosia.  Caught a lot of bass and just a few crappie.  I mostly bass fished and he would switch up once in a while and throw some crappie stuff. Heard the crappie were deeper and on different spots  than we were bass fishing but he did catch 5 big ones in 3 ft or less and they were all females spawned out. 

   I think we did pretty decent without  any electronics and no temp gauge we both easily had our limits of bass every day.  Biggest was a Lm at 3.14  I got on the first day with a worm. We had a good pattern for keepers that held up all 3 days but it wasn't a big fish deal. Had a feeling there were larger bass already finished with their spawn weeks ago and some still roaming with baitfish but without  a graph we didn't even have a clue where to look for the shad ,never saw any shad activity,  so we stuck to the skinny water bite. Tried fishing a little bit deeper adjacent to where we were getting a lot of bites but the strike zone was small and very shallow for us. Visibility was about 6 to 7 feet in most places we fished. 

    I used the same 2 baits pretty much all 3 days , a Texas rigged 6" worm and a swing head rigged with a  SK rodent. The worm was green pumpkin pepper. Never even tried another color since they really liked the gp.   The rodent had green flake and color made a huge difference when it came down to it.  Tried 4 colors before I found one they would bite.  He had some luck on a redfin, buzzbait, and weightless  worms. All of our fish were less than 6ft.deep.

somewhere between 80 and 90 fish total approx for the 3 days. Threw the largemouth bass back, kept the crappie and some 12"k's.    Fished from about 6:30am until 1pm.

  Saw a few fish on beds but it wasn't  very many maybe 4 or 5 and they were Kentuckies.

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Well done! 

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4/28

  Hit the water 8am quit at 2. Same deal as before only this time no love on the swing head jig . Caught 11 bass .5 short and 6 keepers all largemouth. Biggest was a spawned out would have been 3 1/2 lbs yesterday 18"er. Every fish was on the worm. Bite was good for about an hour from 10 to 11 nothing before or after. Steeper banks this time but still shallow. All released.