upper end 4-24

[merc1997 Bo]

got out and did some daytime fishing.  with rain in the forecast, i figured it would scare several from getting out and it did.  kind of a hodge podge day.  fished with a 3" swimmer quite a while with no love.  ran some banks and coves to have a look see as to what the bass were doing spawning wise.  saw lots of nests with no one home.  saw a few with a small skiddish bass.  saw nests both on main lake and in coves.  my water temp was showing 64, but when you pick your bait up out of the water, it felt pretty cold.  so, my opinion is that some of the juniors are up looking around and the old folks are still out to lunch somewhere, so to speak.  never saw or heard a carp up shallow.  did not see hardly any perch up shallow.  those two factors will tell you when the bass are spawning.  when you see or hear carp up wallowing and hear perch pecking around the bank at night, then it is right for most of the bass to spawn.

as far as the catching went for yesterday, we caught them on tubes, doodles, and weenie worms.  had 8 keeps with a couple of 3's.  all the keeps were lmg's and none had spawned.  only one keep came from right on the bank.  they were mostly in the 10 to 12 ft. range.

the best basser i ever knew, Glen Andrews, always told me that in our area, tr and bs, "the bass spawn in may" and i have found that to be a pretty good "rule of thumb".  we have had quite a bit of continual water flow through the lake so far this year, and with the water being very clear, the better bass will spawn deeper than they have for a number of years.  the water is still fairly cold at 10 ft.  i am not for sure if the brown bass have spawned yet.  i have not ventured downstream but a couple of times so far.

bo

[dblades]

I haven't caught a fish with a rough tail yet including several smallies.  I've seen beds but the ones with fish around them are almost too deep to effectively fish for me.

[Basfis]

KC area was full of beds and beds with fish (singles and pair) on them Good Friday. 2-10ft ( probably deeper too but it was windy making sight difficult). 

The fish spawn when they are ready. I’ve asked several and none knew what month it was.