Couple of days on the upper White

[Quillback]

Fished Tuesday and Wednesday this week.  

Tuesday fished the upper White on areas on both sides of the 86 bridge in Tom from Eagle Rock's boat.  It was tough fishing.  Early we caught a couple of keepers throwing jerkbaits on points, Tom caught a 3.5 smallie on a JB that would be the biggest fish we boated.  I caught a spot that I didn't weigh, but I bet it was 2.5lbs.  But that was it for our JB fish.

I fished the Ned quite a bit, caught one keeper smallie and a few short fish.  Fished a lot of good looking locations that should've been holding fish, but there just don't seem to be many of them around in that area.  

Tom got a couple of nice keeper largemouth on a crank on one short stretch of bank.  

I think we finished up with 16 bass, 5 being keepers.

Wednesday I went solo and fished between point 23 and 25.  The bite was a little better on the Ned, first fish I caught was a 3 3/4 lb. smallie and that was the big fish for the day for me.  Caught 20 total, 5 being keepers.  The Ned fish were fairly deep when I started which was late morning as I waited for the storms to clear out before I left the house.  Later in the afternoon there was a rush to the bank of smaller fish and I caught some of those dudes in 5 -10 FOW.  

Not much in the way of shad activity going on in that area.  No gulls, no loons.

Surface temp was 52 in the main channel in the afternoon, someone told me they saw 54 back in a cove in shallow.

First one Wednesday:

Last fish of the day - chartreuse head strikes again!

And a really fat spot:

[Johnsfolly]

29 minutes ago, Quillback said:

Fished Tuesday and Wednesday this week.  

Tuesday fished the upper White on areas on both sides of the 86 bridge in Tom from Eagle Rock's boat.  It was tough fishing.  Early we caught a couple of keepers throwing jerkbaits on points, Tom caught a 3.5 smallie on a JB that would be the biggest fish we boated.  I caught a spot that I didn't weigh, but I bet it was 2.5lbs.  But that was it for our JB fish.

I fished the Ned quite a bit, caught one keeper smallie and a few short fish.  Fished a lot of good looking locations that should've been holding fish, but there just don't seem to be many of them around in that area.  

Tom got a couple of nice keeper largemouth on a crank on one short stretch of bank.  

I think we finished up with 16 bass, 5 being keepers.

Wednesday I went solo and fished between point 23 and 25.  The bite was a little better on the Ned, first fish I caught was a 3 3/4 lb. smallie and that was the big fish for the day for me.  Caught 20 total, 5 being keepers.  The Ned fish were fairly deep when I started which was late morning as I waited for the storms to clear out before I left the house.  Later in the afternoon there was a rush to the bank of smaller fish and I caught some of those dudes in 5 -10 FOW.  

Not much in the way of shad activity going on in that area.  No gulls, no loons.

Surface temp was 52 in the main channel in the afternoon, someone told me they saw 54 back in a cove in shallow.

First one Wednesday:

Last fish of the day - chartreuse head strikes again!

And a really fat spot:

Awesome day buddy! Nice solid fish for sure!

[dtrs5kprs]

About time for a front to drop that water temp.

[Guest]

6 hours ago, Quillback said:

Fished Tuesday and Wednesday this week.  

Tuesday fished the upper White on areas on both sides of the 86 bridge in Tom from Eagle Rock's boat.  It was tough fishing.  Early we caught a couple of keepers throwing jerkbaits on points, Tom caught a 3.5 smallie on a JB that would be the biggest fish we boated.  I caught a spot that I didn't weigh, but I bet it was 2.5lbs.  But that was it for our JB fish.

I fished the Ned quite a bit, caught one keeper smallie and a few short fish.  Fished a lot of good looking locations that should've been holding fish, but there just don't seem to be many of them around in that area.  

Tom got a couple of nice keeper largemouth on a crank on one short stretch of bank.  

I think we finished up with 16 bass, 5 being keepers.

Wednesday I went solo and fished between point 23 and 25.  The bite was a little better on the Ned, first fish I caught was a 3 3/4 lb. smallie and that was the big fish for the day for me.  Caught 20 total, 5 being keepers.  The Ned fish were fairly deep when I started which was late morning as I waited for the storms to clear out before I left the house.  Later in the afternoon there was a rush to the bank of smaller fish and I caught some of those dudes in 5 -10 FOW.  

Not much in the way of shad activity going on in that area.  No gulls, no loons.

Surface temp was 52 in the main channel in the afternoon, someone told me they saw 54 back in a cove in shallow.

First one Wednesday:

Last fish of the day - chartreuse head strikes again!

And a really fat spot:

you can thank leonard and i for hauling that brownie from the dam area and letting it go up here.  same can be said for all the brownies around big m.  they got their start from back when there was a weekly shorty out of big m.  we could run down to kc and haul back a limit of brownies.  goes to show what an actual stocking program could do.

bo

[Quillback]

4 hours ago, dtrs5kprs said:

About time for a front to drop that water temp.

82 today, be lucky to see 52 air temp Saturday.

[dtrs5kprs]

1 hour ago, Quillback said:

82 today, be lucky to see 52 air temp Saturday.

Like clockwork.

[Bassmeister]

3 hours ago, merc1997 said:

you can thank leonard and i for hauling that brownie from the dam area and letting it go up here.  same can be said for all the brownies around big m.  they got their start from back when there was a weekly shorty out of big m.  we could run down to kc and haul back a limit of brownies.  goes to show what an actual stocking program could do.

bo

For those of us in NWA, we thank you for your service to our part of the lake lol