Indian Creek area - October 25

[Quillback]

Rolled over to Indian this morning, thought about going over to Table Rock but I wanted to check and see if there was any striper top water activity around Indian, and to get the striper stuff out of the way, I saw very little of anything that would indicate stripers in the area.  

Went back into Indian first thing in the AM and fished the banks, just wasn't a lot going on, there are some spots coming up chasing small shad and if you are close enough to them when they come up and get a top water on them, they'll hit it.  However, they are running small, 10-12" on average.  I caught about a half dozen of the little dudes and decided this is not how I wanted to spend my time and moved out to the main basin area down by the dam and looked for smallies.

Smallie bite was slow, caught 2 decent ones and a couple of small ones fishing a Keitech near the bottom in water 10-30 feet deep.   

Surface temp - 64.

 

[Devan S.]

You get on a couple 16-17 inch smallies every time out it seems. Just pretty fish.

[Quillback]

They are a great fish to catch, but man I have to do a lot of fishing to catch a couple.