May 1 Big M area

[Quillback]

First time out on the Rock since last Tuesday, things have changed a bit.  Quite a bit of top water activity in a couple of locations.  Caught some obviously spawned out fish.

Ned rig was a multi-species catcher for me today, smallmouth, spots, a largemouth, a few crappie and a couple of hand-sized bluegill.  I kept the crappie, bluegill and one white bass that ate a Keitech.

No wind early so I was able to fish a 1/16 Ned rig very slowly in a couple of coves.  Fish were in 5-15 FOW.  When I found them, there were lots of bites, on the other hand there were stretches of bank with very few fish.  

Left at noon, hoping that the traffic would not be too bad, but it was.  Lots of people on the roads today.

Lot at Big M was full when I left, had about a 30 foot wide space to back between the trailers to get to the dock, as I was backing towards the dock, in comes a guy hauling a ski-boat, goes around me and pulls into the area at the top of the ramp that I would've liked to pull into, that was a bit annoying.  Had to jackknife the trailer to get down the ramp, but no big deal.

Get the boat off the dock, get it on the trailer, start to tighten the winch down and here comes the ski-boat backing down, not down the ramp, but heading straight towards the rip rap off to the side of the ramp.  I have to admit, at this point the little devil on my shoulder was whispering in my ear to just stand by and watch.  I was curious about two things - whether the guy would even notice the trailer bouncing when he hit that rip-rap, and just how much, if any, damage would it do.

But, I couldn't just watch, I hollered at him to stop, pointed out the rocks where he was headed, and got a thanks for it.  

WT 64.

Couple of spawned out smallies:

A little variety:

[Bill Babler]

No way I would have said a word🤪. However those things tend to bite me, cause theN you got to help the Rude SOS. 

[Zulu]

Nice pictures.

[rps]

QB you insured good karma. Peace.

 

[m&m]

Quillback, always the gentleman. 
Mike

[Johnsfolly]

As much as you would have wanted to watch the show you did the right thing Jeff. Sounds like fun fishing and congrats on the variety!

[dtrs5kprs]

Quill, I think some of our fish here around KC might have been full on spawning last week too. Have a few ways to catch them when they are actively going at it, but none that work in wind. Would explain an awful lot.