Phoenix BFL results

[96 CHAMP]

14 hours ago, Quillback said:

They haven't posted the full results, but from the live page, the boater winner had 16-6 and the backseat winner had 12-14.  

Fishing was good last week during the rain and storms, once the water rose I took a couple days off, went out yesterday afternoon for just a bit to see if I could get any chasers on spinner bait to no avail. With the wind today I reckon it will be a spinner bait or crank bait up around bushes, I’m thinking it may be a struggle. 

[bobby b.]

9 hours ago, dtrs5kprs said:

Caught a keeper black in 33' of water, if that helps paint the picture.

Fishing has been good the last two hours of the last two evenings but I do have my new lucky charm (daughter).  We have been finding fish in 15 - 20 fow on secondary rocky points however the keeper to nonkeeper ratio is about 25% and the SM to LM/Spot ratio is 90% and 50% are spawned out.  9 on Friday night and 11 last night.  Last night I outfished the daughter for the first time but she had the keepers.  1/8 oz Cal. Craw 4 inch Ned.

[Quillback]

1 hour ago, 96 CHAMP said:

Fishing was good last week during the rain and storms, once the water rose I took a couple days off, went out yesterday afternoon for just a bit to see if I could get any chasers on spinner bait to no avail. With the wind today I reckon it will be a spinner bait or crank bait up around bushes, I’m thinking it may be a struggle. 

If that spinner bait over the bushes starts happening, that is a fun way to catch them.  Top water bite ought to get going soon too.

[dtrs5kprs]

5 hours ago, 96 CHAMP said:

Fishing was good last week during the rain and storms, once the water rose I took a couple days off, went out yesterday afternoon for just a bit to see if I could get any chasers on spinner bait to no avail. With the wind today I reckon it will be a spinner bait or crank bait up around bushes, I’m thinking it may be a struggle. 

We sat it out. Neither of us felt like fighting the wind out in 30'.

There is a bit of a color line starting up. Could get sporty in a hurry.

[dtrs5kprs]

4 hours ago, Quillback said:

If that spinner bait over the bushes starts happening, that is a fun way to catch them.  Top water bite ought to get going soon too.

Yeah. Truly wish I had a June trip coming up this year.

[Bill Babler]

6 hours ago, dtrs5kprs said:

Yeah. Truly wish I had a June trip coming up this year.

Yep, every lawn and parking lot with a power pole in it will be my target. 

On another note at times that can be hard to fish with topwater or a spinner just due to leaf litter. 

We walked around Campbell Pt. Today and it would have been tough. Just looked like pieces of brown paper sacks torn to pieces floating.   
 

 

[dtrs5kprs]

1 hour ago, Bill Babler said:

Yep, every lawn and parking lot with a power pole in it will be my target. 

On another note at times that can be hard to fish with topwater or a spinner just due to leaf litter. 

We walked around Campbell Pt. Today and it would have been tough. Just looked like pieces of brown paper sacks torn to pieces floating.   
 

 

It's even hard in spots to fish the little rig out deep because of the sawdust and leaves. Line will get up over a leaf, and then everything goes haywire.

In 2011 there was one heckuva big swimmer bite too. 

[Bassin4fun]

1 hour ago, Bill Babler said:

Yep, every lawn and parking lot with a power pole in it will be my target. 

On another note at times that can be hard to fish with topwater or a spinner just due to leaf litter. 

We walked around Campbell Pt. Today and it would have been tough. Just looked like pieces of brown paper sacks torn to pieces floating.   
 

 

I was out yesterday (Saturday). Launched from Big Indian. I really wanted to work that topwater walking bait but there was just too much debris. It was tough working running baits too. I did manage two fish on a jerkbait. Nice stain to the water and WT was 62 when we started and 64 when we came off the lake. Visibility was still 3ft or better even with the water color. I did get a hit on my spinnerbait but I missed the fish. we were throwing spinnerbaits, crankbaits, and jerkbaits.

[dtrs5kprs]

44 minutes ago, Bassin4fun said:

I was out yesterday (Saturday). Launched from Big Indian. I really wanted to work that topwater walking bait but there was just too much debris. It was tough working running baits too. I did manage two fish on a jerkbait. Nice stain to the water and WT was 62 when we started and 64 when we came off the lake. Visibility was still 3ft or better even with the water color. I did get a hit on my spinnerbait but I missed the fish. we were throwing spinnerbaits, crankbaits, and jerkbaits.

I've caught a couple on my reborn Gopper, and a chatterbait. But no size, and no consistency. I'll look at them again tomorrow, eventually they'll move up. For now, I think the better bite is outside, and way outside at that.

[mixermarkb]

2 hours ago, dtrs5kprs said:

It's even hard in spots to fish the little rig out deep because of the sawdust and leaves. Line will get up over a leaf, and then everything goes haywire.

In 2011 there was one heckuva big swimmer bite too. 

Shhhhh. Don’t talk about big swimbait bites. Those don’t work in the wind at all, no sir.