Bob Kid 6/5/21

[Devan S.]

Drove down to Bob Kid on my panfish quest. Water temp was 72-75 everywhere we saw. Spent the whole day throwing crickets about 3' below a float basically running the weed line or spawning cuts. 

Ended the day with about 80 bream.....biggest fish was a 3/4lb red ear. Lots of 7-8" gills which run between .4-.6lbs. 

Just an insane amount of pressure for such a small body of water. We saw at one point 14 boats not counting kayaks/paddle johns(people constantly coming and going). There was 5-6 boats doing exactly what we were doing. 

[Quillback]

That's pretty neat, I have always been interested to hear how that lake fishes for panfish.  Not surprised to hear about the crowds however.

[Devan S.]

Only caught the one red ear everything else was a gill. 

We got there early and caught lots of fish the first 2 hours....after all the other boats started pan fishing it really slowed down. 

[Quillback]

I've got this theory that a redworm, fished close to the bottom on a drop shot or split shot, is a better bait for redear than crickets.  I could be dead wrong, but that has been my experience.

[Ham]

3 minutes ago, Quillback said:

I've got this theory that a redworm, fished close to the bottom on a drop shot or split shot, is a better bait for redear than crickets.  I could be dead wrong, but that has been my experience.

I had a theory I could catch my share on artificials cos I hate worm dirt under my finger nails, but after Jeff had 9 fish and I had not had a bite, I decided to use worms 

[Devan S.]

I threw drop shot with worm on it some and nothing(not vertical just casting and working back slowly). We had 2 other boats ask how we were catching fish because they weren't and we determined they were fishing worms and us crickets. 

One thing I noticed.....the lake was very dirty. Like I couldn't see my trolling motor head 8" under the surface. I don't know if that's normal but I figure it means you really got to bang em right in the head with your bait. 

Also we never fished in a spot much deeper than 6ft. 

[Quillback]

Well sounds like you gave them a shot.  Does sound dirtier than normal.

[Ham]

Catch any catfish ?

[Devan S.]

I did not although I wanted to try. Rumor has it there is pretty good catfishing there too.

[Johnsfolly]

9 hours ago, Quillback said:

I've got this theory that a redworm, fished close to the bottom on a drop shot or split shot, is a better bait for redear than crickets.  I could be dead wrong, but that has been my experience.

I would love the opportunity to check that theory out with you some time Jeff. Just have to get out your way first.