night fishing update.

[merc1997 Bo]

the catching has remained fairly steady, but a couple of trips while we had the cloudy rainy weather were a bit harder to find any areas with shad.  on both of those trips we caught a dozen keepers, and on those two nights, we did catch some a bit shallower, which could be expected by lack of sunshine.

last night we had 16 keeps, but had some good ones.  couple of 4 lb. brownies and a 4 lb. largemouth.  we caught a lot of them from one area.  lots of bait there and lots of bass.  best bait by far was the 1 oz. Elite Mega Blade.  the bite was very funny though.  if i had hooked all my bites, we could have easily had 40 keepers.  i had several literally knock the reel handle out of my hand and no hookup on the jerk.  i finally made myself to basically let the bass nearly hook itself, and then i went to putting them in the boat.  that bait sure does have a learning curve to it, but it is a fish catching machine.  the guy fishing with me last night was not getting any bites on it, but, in watching him fish it out of the corner of my eye, i felt he was never getting enough speed on the bait when we was cranking it.  so, he was never getting his lure up off the bottom far enough to get it in front of the bass.  most of the bites were occurring while the lure was coasting back to the bottom.

we've only been fishing to 12:30.  so, that is pretty good catching for 4 hours of fishing. 

i did notice a strong crap line out in the lake at 30 ft. last night.

bo

[Bgctrading]

Can you elaborate on how you fish this bait?

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Bgctrading said:

Can you elaborate on how you fish this bait?

not really a wrong way, but basically most of the time the bass are not glued to the bottom.  so, you need to crank it with enough speed for it to come up off the bottom 6 to 8 feet.  then you stop reeling and two to  six cranks, and let the swing back to the bottom with a tight line.  this gets the bait up in the bass's vision, and many of the bites will occur while the biat is swinging back to the bottom, or when you start to crank it again.  the biggest learning curve is when to set the hook.  i think on the NuTech Lures you tube channel, there is some footage demonstrating how to fish it, and i believe it is on one talking about new lures being released.  here is chased down the link.  

bo

 

 

[mojorig]

Here is the Dissolved Oxygen/Temperature profile for TR taken at the Dam on July 30th. Your observation of the thermocline being at 30ft was pretty accurate. That is a pretty common thermocline depth for all four Upper White River Reservoirs. On Bull and Norfork, the formulation of the thermocline begins in late May/early June.

Link :TR DO and Temp