Phoenix BFL results

[Bill Babler]

Dave as usual is totally correct. Those post spawners will move up maybe by next week if the surface temps move into the 70's with the warmer weather coming. 

Shad spawn will move them up.  Right now why would they. 

Sunday water at the knob here was 62 degree murky and full of debris. Can't tell you how many tubers, skiers and swimmers were in it. Campbell Point full of folks in that cold water. I'm a dinosaur and can't understand it. 

[Quillback]

Just wait until school gets out.  

[snagged in outlet 3]

5 hours ago, Quillback said:

Just wait until school gets out.  

I'd bet leading up to Memorial Weekend will see an onslaught....

[196champ]

We fished Friday and tried the bush game but not much happening, we had a few on a blade and a 3lb LM on a buzzer.

Got fed up with the slow bite and went to my strong suite little swimmer.

We landed on a gravel spot that was just loaded up with SM and nice K's.

biggest was a 4 lb SM and several in the 3 lb range.  made for a fun hour and a half without moving the boat to save the day.

Always fun when things line up at the end with a guest in the boat!

 

[dtrs5kprs]

8 hours ago, Bill Babler said:

Dave as usual is totally correct. Those post spawners will move up maybe by next week if the surface temps move into the 70's with the warmer weather coming. 

Shad spawn will move them up.  Right now why would they. 

Sunday water at the knob here was 62 degree murky and full of debris. Can't tell you how many tubers, skiers and swimmers were in it. Campbell Point full of folks in that cold water. I'm a dinosaur and can't understand it. 

They moved some today. Best bite was still outside but that wind just made it a bear. 

We did catch some flipping and fishing lawn grass, including a decent bedding black around 3#, when we ducked into a cove to get a break from the wind.

Water color is a little cloudier, temps shot up. Saw a lot of 68-69 on the Garmin by 330pm, started around 65 at 630am. Lot of shad getting on the sides of the points...where the little jokers should have been two weeks ago.

That one went 4.66 on the old MLF scale. Started with an 18", had another 18", then that fish.

 

[vernon]

Comparatively speaking I guess overall we haven’t done all that bad. It’s just been disappointing in relation to expectations as we thought it was gonna be really good. 
In other high water years we had a blast on spinnerbaits and top water but not a sniff so far this year.

Friday night we had three with no keepers in about an hour and a half, Saturday it was eleven fish with two keepers and Sunday we caught fifteen with two keepers. Both weekend days we didn’t get out until around 230 cause of the wind so it was around five hours each day. 

Most were Ned fish with a few on Keitech. Only a few were caught shallow as we moved deep pretty quickly after zeroing in the bushes starting out.

About once an hour we’d make a few throws up close just to see but then moved back out as we weren’t seeing any baitfish in the trees so figured there probably weren’t any bass either. Most bass I‘ve known over the years didn’t hang out in trees just cause they liked trees.

Yesterday we played golf which was OK except for the wind although we suck at that too!

Looks pretty placid out there so far today so we’ll see what happens although the first thirty minutes will be backyards and picnic tables with spinnerbaits for sure. Gonna keep giving them a chance to redeem themselves!

[dtrs5kprs]

1 hour ago, vernon said:

Comparatively speaking I guess overall we haven’t done all that bad. It’s just been disappointing in relation to expectations as we thought it was gonna be really good. 
In other high water years we had a blast on spinnerbaits and top water but not a sniff so far this year.

Friday night we had three with no keepers in about an hour and a half, Saturday it was eleven fish with two keepers and Sunday we caught fifteen with two keepers. Both weekend days we didn’t get out until around 230 cause of the wind so it was around five hours each day. 

Most were Ned fish with a few on Keitech. Only a few were caught shallow as we moved deep pretty quickly after zeroing in the bushes starting out.

About once an hour we’d make a few throws up close just to see but then moved back out as we weren’t seeing any baitfish in the trees so figured there probably weren’t any bass either. Most bass I‘ve known over the years didn’t hang out in trees just cause they liked trees.

Yesterday we played golf which was OK except for the wind although we suck at that too!

Looks pretty placid out there so far today so we’ll see what happens although the first thirty minutes will be backyards and picnic tables with spinnerbaits for sure. Gonna keep giving them a chance to redeem themselves!

They'll get up there eventually. Trying to get packed before the sauna is in full force, if I have time I'll get a "current conditions" sort of report up.

Pretty much worn smooth today.

[Flippin]

4 hours ago, vernon said:

Comparatively speaking I guess overall we haven’t done all that bad. It’s just been disappointing in relation to expectations as we thought it was gonna be really good. 
In other high water years we had a blast on spinnerbaits and top water but not a sniff so far this year.

Friday night we had three with no keepers in about an hour and a half, Saturday it was eleven fish with two keepers and Sunday we caught fifteen with two keepers. Both weekend days we didn’t get out until around 230 cause of the wind so it was around five hours each day. 

Most were Ned fish with a few on Keitech. Only a few were caught shallow as we moved deep pretty quickly after zeroing in the bushes starting out.

About once an hour we’d make a few throws up close just to see but then moved back out as we weren’t seeing any baitfish in the trees so figured there probably weren’t any bass either. Most bass I‘ve known over the years didn’t hang out in trees just cause they liked trees.

Yesterday we played golf which was OK except for the wind although we suck at that too!

Looks pretty placid out there so far today so we’ll see what happens although the first thirty minutes will be backyards and picnic tables with spinnerbaits for sure. Gonna keep giving them a chance to redeem themselves!

For the past several years relatives come late April or early May and and we fish a week on Table Rock.  The past several years the number fish caught have steadily declined.  This year it was a grind and had to work for them.  

[Quillback]

I am catching very few largemouth that are in the 10-14" range this year.  Smallmouth numbers aren't quite as good either.  Tons of spotted bass and the few largemouth I catch tend to be keepers.  Just not any smaller largemouth around.  Now of course I fish I relatively small section of the lake, could be different elsewhere.  

[dtrs5kprs]

1 hour ago, Quillback said:

I am catching very few largemouth that are in the 10-14" range this year.  Smallmouth numbers aren't quite as good either.  Tons of spotted bass and the few largemouth I catch tend to be keepers.  Just not any smaller largemouth around.  Now of course I fish I relatively small section of the lake, could be different elsewhere.  

Numbers definitely seem to be down. Not sure which year class that would be. Maybe 2017, when high water could have impacted the spawn. 

They could also just be in different places. 

What really strikes me as odd, given how, what, and where I fish...I caught precisely zero bluegill, green sunfish, etc. Had very few "perch" bites overall. Caught exactly two gogs.