Baxter dropshotting

[Hunter91]

A buddy and I went out of Baxter yesterday evening. It was pretty nice, very cloudy medium wind and not to hot. We tried drop shotting for a while and caught 9 short fish in about 22 FOW. Not great but, this is my first success with this technique. It gives me confidence to use it again. Also caught a few fish on spinnerbaits in less than 10FOW.

[rps]

I noticed the fish at the same depth. Wed., Sat., and today I marked many many fish in the 22 - 25 foot range here up river. Some over flats, even more on flats edges. Bait fish were holding a foot or two shallower. Thermocline must have really solidified.

All three days were hard for the morning topwater bite, although I did manage to spook a nice 20" LM this morning. She came off a flat point, but within 40 feet of a channel edge. The rest of the time, I trolled the thermocline, especially in tree tops. Several walleye, three of which were legal. A number of spotted bass as well, two were legal. Not great days, but worth going out.