August 5 - Between Big M and Shell Knob

[Quillback]

Had a plan, do some early bass fishing, then catch some gills.  Brought some red worms for the gills, brought 4 dozen with me as the reports I was reading were showing 6 year old kids loading the boat with big gills.  Well those kids sure beat the heck out of me, I caught exactly one gill.  Caught somewhere between 6 and 8 spots on the worms and a couple of short eyes, but I could just not find those gills and I even tried Babler's secret spot.  Sometimes the fish win, and I hate it when they do.

But, the bass cooperated fairly well on the swimming the Keitech deal, also got a keeper eye on the Keitech.  Caught 21 bass total, only two keeps, but had fun on the spinning gear.  

Got run off the water about 11 AM.  Quite a few fishermen out there today too.  Very nice morning for August.

 

 

 

[bferg]

Any trip where you catch a keeper Eye is a good trip!  But is sure is crazy how it can change in a day!  

 

Not to rub any salt in the wound but we were out last night and got after them again.  Key for us was definitely idling around until we found them on the graph.  Hard to get a 5 and 6 yr old to be patient and wait to find the fish.  We did lose one eye at the boat and caught one small eye.  But couldn't find the mother load of Eyes that Mr. Babler was on earlier this week.   

[Big Keene]

last week we were on them good in the Kimberling area. the eastern point of Schooner Creek was our best. whole or half crawlers, 25 ft deep is where we found the most consistent 9-10" gills. it was a blast. nice walleye too! and bass.