June

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6/11

11-6

The panfish adventures continue. 157 today. Almost all of them caught sight fishing. Fishing in the woods is risky,but that's where they are concentrated. You can hear the fish kissing the surface and see them in big schools of 15-20+. I kept thinking any minute a snake was gonna drop into the boat from a tree limb,but actually I never saw a snake all day. Using the same baits as always. Also caught 9 small crappie.   Kept 11 decent size fish about like this one.

[Ham]

All this High Water has really helped Bull Shoals Bluegill. 

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5 hours ago, Ham said:

All this High Water has really helped Bull Shoals Bluegill. 

Find the depth range they are using and it's like shooting fish in a barrel. I fished a 200yd stretch of shaded bank that's actually an edge of a field normal levels. They were scattered from one end to the other.  And many places I could see them and hear them popping the surface but couldn't get to them, the forest was too thick

Also we had an awesome bass hatch as there were hundreds of little pods of bass about an inch long  cruising around.

Same with shad spawn. I couldn't believe I didn't see any bass or whites schooling on top. Just gobs of bait all over the place. Schools of shad any size they want. Little  baby shad ,3-4" shad, and big ol 7-10" shad.

 

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6/14

Bass fished 12-6

different spot than  Fridays report

Slow start, first you gotta find what depth/s they are.. Took me a couple hours to find them.  Threw crankbaits all day. Searching. Lipless and a square bill. Topwater was a definite no. Gar  everywhere you look ,had to reel the baits really fast or they would grab it. Every cast with a topwater has gar all over it. Didn't even bring any jigs or worms today,just wanted to cover water as fast as possible.

Caught 14 largemouth only 3 keepers. Found them scattered in a field in 6-9 fow.  Caught all of them between 2:30 and 4:00.

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6/23

11-2:30

Visibility about 18".

Left the bass stuff at home this time. Just needed a few gills for the freezer. Really hard to find today. Toughest day I've had all year for bluegill. Finally found them on the bottom in 6-10' on gravel way in the back of a tiny creek . Couldn't get anything going in the brush this time, everything was related to rock bottom . Several had their tails roughed up ,tells me there are some on beds or just finished. Used a 1/16 ounce micro jig with a honey worm,white was the best color worm with a smoke hologram jig. Let it hit bottom, hop it 3 times and repeat. Never saw a bluegill near the surface today. Didn't hear many kissing the surface either. Caught everything in 2 spots. Fish each spot for a little bit catch one or two and then come back later and catch a few more.

Caught 19, kept 10.