What am I missing?

[BassPastor]

I know this time of year can be tough but it seems I couldn’t buy a bite right now. 

Our condo is near State Park and I have a smaller boat so can’t travel too far. I’ve focused on gravel points and tried dropshots, spoons, jigs, and Ned’s, without a bite. Today I was dropshotting a plum zoom finesse worm with about 12” of tagline. Focused on 25’-35’ on long gravel main lake points  

Im not asking you to catch the fish for me, but what are the obvious factors that I’m missing? Any better bites that I should be focusing on?

[Quillback]

Are you seeing fish on the finder?  If I'm vertical drop shot fishing, then I need to see fish and I'll move around until I find them. 

[BassPastor]

5 minutes ago, Quillback said:

Are you seeing fish on the finder?  If I'm vertical drop shot fishing, then I need to see fish and I'll move around until I find them. 

Definitely not seeing as much as I’d like to. Been seeing shad busting first thing in the morning and thrown a Keitech and top water but no takers. 

Will try and key in on the Garmin tomorrow morning. 

[m&m]

BassPaster, it’s pretty tough around the dam right now. Like quill said, use your electronics to locate fish and go after them. 

Mike

[bobby b.]

I think the heavier release of water at TR has keep the thermocline from setting up.  I have not found fish concentrations on my favorite points in the darn area.  I have found fish above the trees in the creek guts but they wouldn't even take a night crawler - they come up, look at it and go back down.  I've heard that some of the guides are avoiding the darn area now.

I do note that the water release has slowed to normal in the last couple days.  Is the Corp planning on staying at 921?

Bobby

[MoCarp]

With all the high water TR has not been as bad as Grand, Truman and Stockton...so where do they go?

TR fish eaters gotta eat...

[bferg]

18 hours ago, BassPastor said:

I know this time of year can be tough but it seems I couldn’t buy a bite right now. 

Our condo is near State Park and I have a smaller boat so can’t travel too far. I’ve focused on gravel points and tried dropshots, spoons, jigs, and Ned’s, without a bite. Today I was dropshotting a plum zoom finesse worm with about 12” of tagline. Focused on 25’-35’ on long gravel main lake points  

Im not asking you to catch the fish for me, but what are the obvious factors that I’m missing? Any better bites that I should be focusing on?

I am not nearly as experienced as a lot of dudes on here but what I saw two weeks ago seems to be holding true:  use your electronics to find fish and then if you don't get bit pretty quickly move on to the next group.  We found a large group of fish in 25-30 feet deep.  Dropped/threw everything that I could think they SHOULD want and nothing.  Ended up moving to another school of fish we found off of a dock in about 20 feet of water- i could tell from my graph they were more active and sure enough we got bit.  Once you find an active group don't leave them.  Thats my .02.

[NebSchmidty]

We were down the week before last and fished out of the Indian Point area.  It was certainly a grind for me to come up with 5-10 fish each morning.  After a few days, I pretty much gave up on wasting early light on topwater, throwing a keitech into the random surface blips, or trying to coax something from the abyss with a dropshot worm.  Instead, I'd go straight to fishing for shallower 10-15' fish off the bottom before they backed out with increasing daylight.  Depending on cloud cover (or lack thereof) you could still work a bottom bite out 15-25'ish towards 7-730... but by 8 you were on borrowed time before they moved out and suspended deeper.  Areas were mainlake points -- seemed better on the point or just on the downstream edge of it before you would hit submerged timber leading back into the creek/cove.  They were definitely munching on craws in the areas with some chunkier rock present.  Best two baits were a 3.5" tube on a 3/16 head (GP/orange flake in low light, WM candy after) and a GP/orange flk ultravibe speed craw on a 3/16oz head.  Hope that might help some.

[Quillback]

1 hour ago, bobby b. said:

I do note that the water release has slowed to normal in the last couple days.  Is the Corp planning on staying at 921?

Bobby

I think that they are still waiting on the Mississippi and/or the Arkansas rivers to recede before they start releasing water.  if anything it should provide good cover for this years fry, hopefully leading to good numbers to catch down the road.

 

[Guest]

most definitely utilize your electronics.  our bass have become shad nomads.  watch for areas where the bait is really congregated.  most of the time bass will be very close.  they hardly ever stray to far from the kitchen.

bo