April 19, Big M area

[Quillback]

It was one of the quantity over quality days.  Bunch of bank running spotted bass.  Caught 30, 2 were LM's, one smallie and the rest were spots.  Caught a 16" walleye which keeps my at least one short walleye per trip streak on Table Rock going.  4 minimum sized keepers.

Every fish I caught came on 2.8 and 3.3 Keitechs.  None were very deep, deepest fish may have been at 10 feet.  Some were around docks, some on the main lake, and a few back in the Big M cove.  

Had one good one roll on the Surge Shad, he missed it, I saw it, decent fish a no doubt keeper, but no hook up.

Some beds out there, saw a couple of small fish on them.

 

[Dutch]

Better than I did.  I had 13 with 3 keepers in the Cape Fair to Piney area.  Mine all came on dirt or melon candy Zinker Zs  I did catch my first Piney smallie today.

Some day I am going to hire someone to teach me how to catch swim bait fish.

[dtrs5kprs]

They can hurry up and stop eating that swimmer any time in the next week.

[dtrs5kprs]

52 minutes ago, Dutch said:

Better than I did.  I had 13 with 3 keepers in the Cape Fair to Piney area.  Mine all came on dirt or melon candy Zinker Zs  I did catch my first Piney smallie today.

Some day I am going to hire someone to teach me how to catch swim bait fish.

Would be hard pressed to think of a bait I enjoy less. Sticks and deep cranks, maybe.

And I love swimming a grub, which makes it stranger.

[cheesemaster]

Great looking smallmouth!! Definitely a good number day. Did you notice what the water temp was?  Curious to see if this big cold front drops it more than a degree Or two.... pushes the girls back at all.... 

[1farmer]

5 hours ago, dtrs5kprs said:

Would be hard pressed to think of a bait I enjoy less. Sticks and deep cranks, maybe.

And I love swimming a grub, which makes it stranger.

Think of it as a paddle tail grub.

[Quillback]

7 hours ago, cheesemaster said:

Great looking smallmouth!! Definitely a good number day. Did you notice what the water temp was?  Curious to see if this big cold front drops it more than a degree Or two.... pushes the girls back at all.... 

I looked first thing in the morning and it was 55, but that was over deep water.  

[Dutch]

9 hours ago, cheesemaster said:

Great looking smallmouth!! Definitely a good number day. Did you notice what the water temp was?  Curious to see if this big cold front drops it more than a degree Or two.... pushes the girls back at all.... 

My HB units showed 61° to 63° every where I went.  As for pushing the girls back the only girls that I am seeing are spots.  

[dtrs5kprs]

10 hours ago, 1farmer said:

Think of it as a paddle tail grub.

I have. I still hate it.

I blame BPS. When I was about eight years old, one of the first things I bought from the first BPS catalog we had ever seen was a 50ct of BPS Squirmin' Shads. Never got near a fish with one. 😂

Kind of dig bigger swimbaits. The Storm lead inside baits and some of the big hard swimmers and wakers.

[curtisce]

We fished out of Baxter, results not to different. Had one LM go 3.5#. Probably had enough keeper spots to make a limit between us. Checked the WFL results, anyone who caught just one fish had a bag weight of right at 2# +- an ounce so we had 11.5# sack😝😝.Orange/green Ned or Kietech for us.Thought about getting out before the snow today but one hour drive each way keept me at home.Anyone get out early?