Rocky Branch 4-18-20

[TrophyFishR]

We fished yesterday afternoon. Sunny & beautiful with lots of boater traffic. 

Water 61, greenish clear, light south wind. 

For some reason, we had no luck in spawning pockets. We did best on bluff banks. Ned Rig 8-15ft deep. 

I found a big school of fish in a spawning pocket. Sent the aquavu camera down to find it was 100 bluegill loosely gathered above a small brushpile. I spent way too much time trying to catch "bass" in that spot. The AquaVu doesn't lie. 

There are definitely some deep fish offshore, but ive gotta spend more time with the AquaVu to determine what I'm seeing on the down imager. 

 

 

[sfiser]

these cold nights have just not allowed those fish to go in there and spawn.  We looked around in 1 pocket Saturday morning and the water temp was 54 and I immediately abandoned that plan and went deeper and found some fish off points.  

[bferg]

We found a few in brush piles (smaller bucks) last Friday but they were all in the first 1/3rd of creek arms/pockets.  As we went farther back we got nothing...

[JMCat]

Thanks so much for the updates guys.  I went to Bull shoals last weekend and we had a blast. But I am going to try to get out to Beaver soon.  Fish were mostly on main lake points and down inside bank to the first pocket.  

We caught 20+ smallmouth per day on swimbaits and megabass jerkbaits.   

[Sore Thumbs]

We had a friendly derby with 10 guys on Sunday. They were chomping! Had seven 5lbrs caught out of 10 people. Unfortunately I didn’t have one of them. Went out last night for a few hours. Bite was really tough. I guess blue bird skies after cold front shut em down. It’s about to get good!