Cape Fair 6/5

[cheesemaster]

I put in right at 5:45. It was beautiful this morning! I started right across from the house with a buzzer. I had 2 slap at it but that’s all they did. I switched to a Spook and they liked it much better. I caught 12 total and 7 were keepers. Missed a few also. They all came from coves or right at the mouth of coves - just out from the bushes. I couldn’t get bit behind the bushes or even in the bushes - I had my luck about 5 feet in front of the bushes. Best fish was 3lbs (I had 2 that size) and she hardly made any commotion when she hit, just sucked it down.  It was funny - the littler fish were blowing up hard and the bigger fish didn’t blow up at all. 

[Dutch]

So boat gas doesn’t bother you at all.  Nice morning.  

[cheesemaster]

16 minutes ago, Dutch said:

So boat gas doesn’t bother you at all.  Nice morning.  

I didn’t burn more than a gallon today.

[Quillback]

That's some fun fishing, getting them on top!

[Dutch]

After the rain passed and the roads dried, my neighbor and I went for a short afternoon trip.  We started on the main lake and some coves.  We used spinnerbait, chatterbait, worms and jigs.  We never got a bite.

 I got frustrated and ran to Piney.  He started using a junebug Ned and caught 2 immediately.  I kept trying other baits.  At 5 to 0 I pulled out the Ned.  I ended up with 6 and he had 10 bass and a flathead of about 4#.   We had 5 keepers.  We had 3 spots and no brown fish.  All were caught on Ned.

[cheesemaster]

36 minutes ago, Dutch said:

After the rain passed and the roads dried, my neighbor and I went for a short afternoon trip.  We started on the main lake and some coves.  We used spinnerbait, chatterbait, worms and jigs.  We never got a bite.

 I got frustrated and ran to Piney.  He started using a junebug Ned and caught 2 immediately.  I kept trying other baits.  At 5 to 0 I pulled out the Ned.  I ended up with 6 and he had 10 bass and a flathead of about 4#.   We had 5 keepers.  We had 3 spots and no brown fish.  All were caught on Ned.

Well - its a better day than at work I suppose.

Its hard to beat the Ned when it comes to putting fish on the end of your line.

[Champ188]

Great job, Cheese. You are a fine hand with any kind of topwater. 

[Dutch]

My S I L had toady free so we came back to your area.  We got there as the fog was lifting.  We hit some spots heading down lake.  Nothing.  We ran to the back of Piney…nothing.  We moved to rocky (not ledgy) areas and started catching a few.  Usually it was nothing or two.  We covered lots of water and wound up with 26 bass.  Several spots of which 2 were keepers.  Several greenies of which 2 were keepers.  We had 3 brown fish with 0 of them keepers.  Ned was the best.  Many colors including white and bubble gum produced fish.  The water was 76°.  The drawback to the day was the idiots in the wake boat that had to keep coming by us.  

[cheesemaster]

3 hours ago, Dutch said:

My S I L had toady free so we came back to your area.  We got there as the fog was lifting.  We hit some spots heading down lake.  Nothing.  We ran to the back of Piney…nothing.  We moved to rocky (not ledgy) areas and started catching a few.  Usually it was nothing or two.  We covered lots of water and wound up with 26 bass.  Several spots of which 2 were keepers.  Several greenies of which 2 were keepers.  We had 3 brown fish with 0 of them keepers.  Ned was the best.  Many colors including white and bubble gum produced fish.  The water was 76°.  The drawback to the day was the idiots in the wake boat that had to keep coming by us.  

Nice - sounds like a good day. The wake boats were far and few between many years ago way up the river but they are all over now. The wakes crash both sides of the lake hard up in that skinny water. They run back and forth in front of the ramp all day long - makes it difficult to launch or load for some people with those big rollers hitting all the time.