Big M area, April 5

[Quillback]

Today was the proverbial quantity over quality day for me.  I caught over 40 bass, but only 5 keepers and except for a 16" largemouth, they were just over the 15" mark and of the spotted variety.  Bunch of bank running males.  Water temp was 55 off the bank, probably a little warmer shallow.  Quite a few of them were just off the edge of the buck brush.

1/16 oz Ned head with 1/2 Zinker got me my first two dozen, then the wind picked up and caught some on a 1/8 oz head and a few on a 2.8 Keitech.  Didn't fish any bluffs or steep stuff.

Bunch of rigs in the Big M lot when I left, might be the most I have seen parked there on a weekday.  

 

One of the ones that came to play.

[Dutch]

Once again I have to bow to you.  Today in the Cape Fair area the number was 43 and the keepers were 3.  My birds showed   57° most every where I went.  Every place I stopped gave up at least 1 fish.  I fished from 9-2.  Cape is muddy and down lake tannic acid is still everywhere in coves and creeks.  I only used 2 baits:  green pumpkin trd and the deal trd on weedless ewg heads.  This is the first time I can remember not losing a Ned.

[Quillback]

Dutch, believe it or not, I did not lose a Ned today either.  Couple of Zinkers got torn up, but that was it.  

[Dutch]

I’m using the wide gap ewg in some real narly places.  So far it has really impressed me, enough that I have ordered 50 similar jigs from Mike Seibert with a 3/0 hook to try for shaky.

[Zulu]

I bow to both of you. Either day would have been my best on the water.

[rps]

Every once in a while you can have a numbers day like that. Oddly, those days rarely include big fish. Some years ago I had a 63 fish day on a topwater. The best five might have made 12 pounds.

 

[MarkG52]

How was the water color around Big M Jeff? A buddy went out of Prairie Creek on Beaver for a while yesterday afternoon and the visibility was 4'+ there. Temps of 55-56. 

[Quillback]

59 minutes ago, MarkG52 said:

How was the water color around Big M Jeff? A buddy went out of Prairie Creek on Beaver for a while yesterday afternoon and the visibility was 4'+ there. Temps of 55-56. 

I'd say visibility there is about the same, 4-5 feet.  Quite a bit of pollen on the surface.