Cows to the dam

[8pounder]

I have been fishing this lake every spring for nearly 40 years now, and have seen it this clear only on a handful of occasions. I’ve never had a 3-4 day stretch of fishing like I’ve just had with a higher keeper ratio - 59 w/35 keepers. There was nothing new or mysterious to what I was doing, dragging a Dr or French Fry back to the boat, chucking the 3.3 keitech, an occasional fluke offering, and when conditions warranted I’d go Red Fin or Buzz Bait. Didn’t much matter whether it was pea gravel, fist size rock, basketball size, or boulders there always seemed to be fish looking for a meal or pizzed that something was in their space. Timber in the vicinity helped slightly. My boat was never in water more than 18-20 ft and many times I worked down the bank in 10 fow. Smallmouth were  predominant, but I did catch a few Spots and Large Mouth. All released to swim another day. Bite yesterday in the higher and rising water didn’t change. Nice to see the future dock crappers out swimming with mom and dad too. 

[snagged in outlet 3]

Sounds like a great time.  What's up with the title of the post?? 

[bferg]

Can't beat a buzz bait bite!  Sounds fun!

[Champ188]

3 hours ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

What's up with the title of the post?? 

He was fishing from Big and Little Cow creeks to the dam. 

[dblades]

Those little dock crapper make a fine topwater, seen a few get ate getting too close to docks.

[STLbassbuster]

I like that smallmouth picture suspending in the air!

[abkeenan]

7 hours ago, 8pounder said:

I have been fishing this lake every spring for nearly 40 years now, and have seen it this clear only on a handful of occasions. I’ve never had a 3-4 day stretch of fishing like I’ve just had with a higher keeper ratio - 59 w/35 keepers.

All released to swim another day.

 

Maybe there is a correlation there? Congrats on the fine trip and thanks for the pics. Not sure how you trained that small jaw to pose like that for the camera mid aerial release. Impressive.

[Patlock]

He looks pretty ticked off!

[Sprint21fter]

Fish up here never eat a black buzzbait!  Great Trip.