Fall '22 Big Bass Bash

[97procraft]

Nice practice day.  Good luck this weekend.  When the weekend is over, could you post your fishing report, we don't get very many of those on the LOZ page.  

[Bassin4fun]

19 hours ago, 97procraft said:

Nice practice day.  Good luck this weekend.  When the weekend is over, could you post your fishing report, we don't get very many of those on the LOZ page.  

Will do. Yesterday was awful....I deviated from how I fished Friday. I started where I caught those two big bass...mistake. That threw off my whole day. I wasted my early morning window. I caught fiah...but only on a stretch in the Osage arm...mostly spotslted bass...two small keepers was all. Today, hoping to get back on program. Will be tough....weather is supposed to be warmer, little to no wind, not a cloud in the sky..  and after the lake got hammered. Oh well....here goes nothing. 😁

[Bassin4fun]

Saturday 10/1 - WT 70-74F wind was blowing...probably 5-10mph in morning and probably 10mph by 11am. Bluebird skies and warm. I started off trying to fish docks...same area off main lake that I caught two monsters on late Friday morning. I tried throwing a jig, Texas rigged worm, squarebill, and buzzbait around the docks and banks. No dice...not even a whiff. Needless to say, by the time I decided to move....every dock and bit of bank in the area had been fished multiple times. I ended up moving past the bridge and up into the Osage arm off the main lake. I fished the steeper banks along the river channel...I caught a lot of dinks...mostly spotted bass. I primarily caught them on a squarebill or rock crawler while parallel to bank. I did throw a jig a few times at structure I could see and did catch a small keeper largemouth. I ended up with 2 small keeper bass and a bunch of dinks. I also caught several white bass and a drum. Most of the fish I caught were tight to the bank...very shallow. Although, I did get a few deeper running that rock crawler. I finished the day out with nothing g to write home about. I should have stuck to my original game plan of starting at the point directly across from PB2 cove. On Friday morning, I caught a lot of smaller bass doing that including two smaller keepers.

Today (Sun 10/2), I decided to try a river arm. I had noticed that some of the larger bass on the leaderboard were weighed at Ivy Bend...so I launched from Wigwaum School Access. To my pleasant surprise, there were only two other rigs there at 545am this morning. Maybe, I should have taken the hint...lol. I did catch a few smaller bass and a drum. The water temp started out at 69-70F. It was a lot dirtier that far up the Osage arm. The water was very low and you had to stick to the channel. I did venture off into a pocket and nearly got stuck. I ran the same pattern....parallel to bank throwing buzzbait, squarebill,  and jig. I only caught fish on the squarebill again today. All were shallow, tight to bank. One off a laydown. I wasted too much time, too far down the river this morning. It was only my 5th time on the lake...gonna take many more trips to get to know it better and find where I prefer to launch and fish. Saturday was nuts....so many boats and anglers. I still maybe would launch from Wigwaum and just run toward main lake a bit further. I stopped not far from mile 60 in Osage arm. I think maybe another mile or two and the water would have been better. I only caught 4 or 5 bass and a drum this morning. Threw in the towel and chalked it up to learning experience this weekend. The pics are of my biggest and smallest catches this morning.

[Johnsfolly]

14 minutes ago, Bassin4fun said:

 

That's my kind of bass😉!

[BilletHead]

1 hour ago, Bassin4fun said:

Saturday 10/1 - WT 70-74F wind was blowing...probably 5-10mph in morning and probably 10mph by 11am. Bluebird skies and warm. I started off trying to fish docks...same area off main lake that I caught two monsters on late Friday morning. I tried throwing a jig, Texas rigged worm, squarebill, and buzzbait around the docks and banks. No dice...not even a whiff. Needless to say, by the time I decided to move....every dock and bit of bank in the area had been fished multiple times. I ended up moving past the bridge and up into the Osage arm off the main lake. I fished the steeper banks along the river channel...I caught a lot of dinks...mostly spotted bass. I primarily caught them on a squarebill or rock crawler while parallel to bank. I did throw a jig a few times at structure I could see and did catch a small keeper largemouth. I ended up with 2 small keeper bass and a bunch of dinks. I also caught several white bass and a drum. Most of the fish I caught were tight to the bank...very shallow. Although, I did get a few deeper running that rock crawler. I finished the day out with nothing g to write home about. I should have stuck to my original game plan of starting at the point directly across from PB2 cove. On Friday morning, I caught a lot of smaller bass doing that including two smaller keepers.

Today (Sun 10/2), I decided to try a river arm. I had noticed that some of the larger bass on the leaderboard were weighed at Ivy Bend...so I launched from Wigwaum School Access. To my pleasant surprise, there were only two other rigs there at 545am this morning. Maybe, I should have taken the hint...lol. I did catch a few smaller bass and a drum. The water temp started out at 69-70F. It was a lot dirtier that far up the Osage arm. The water was very low and you had to stick to the channel. I did venture off into a pocket and nearly got stuck. I ran the same pattern....parallel to bank throwing buzzbait, squarebill,  and jig. I only caught fish on the squarebill again today. All were shallow, tight to bank. One off a laydown. I wasted too much time, too far down the river this morning. It was only my 5th time on the lake...gonna take many more trips to get to know it better and find where I prefer to launch and fish. Saturday was nuts....so many boats and anglers. I still maybe would launch from Wigwaum and just run toward main lake a bit further. I stopped not far from mile 60 in Osage arm. I think maybe another mile or two and the water would have been better. I only caught 4 or 5 bass and a drum this morning. Threw in the towel and chalked it up to learning experience this weekend. The pics are of my biggest and smallest catches this morning.

              You and I would make a good team for the little bass Bash!

[Johnsfolly]

2 hours ago, BilletHead said:

              You and I would make a good team for the little bass Bash!

@BilletHead and @Bassin4fun I might give you a run for the money.

Now this is a little bass. Only the lipgloss bag makes it look big 😅

[Daryk Campbell Sr]

46 minutes ago, Johnsfolly said:

@BilletHead and @Bassin4fun I might give you a run for the money.

Now this is a little bass. Only the lipgloss bag makes it look big 😅

@JohnsfollyNot to brag, but I may have you beat.  

 

Thanks for the report @Bassin4funwhile I wish things could have been better for you,  it seems you were having a good time nonetheless.  

[Bassin4fun]

On 9/28/2022 at 10:42 AM, stealthycat said:

I'm fishing - past Ivy Bend , way up ... hope it aint too shallow

How did you end up doing? I was up way past Ivy Bend myself this morning. It was REAL shallow in areas. The best I did was on Saturday, I had a couple of small keepers that probably went 1.5lbs each. Today my best was probably 1.25lbs...fat little spot. Nothing like Friday, that's for sure. 

[stealthycat]

we went way up to Coal Camp creek

pre-fishing on Friday my uncle hooked a 7 pound-ish fish, come off at boat

Saturday our biggest 5 probably went 15-16 pounds .. but nothing over 3.5 pounds 

Sunday we stuck with the same plan  -  and had same results

 

Good fishing, didn't have to fight so many boat ... but there was one boat thought it'd buzz us planed out at about 20' .... I wish I'd have thrown my crankbait into his boat as he went by. CAN'T STAND THAT

 

[Bassin4fun]

13 minutes ago, stealthycat said:

we went way up to Coal Camp creek

pre-fishing on Friday my uncle hooked a 7 pound-ish fish, come off at boat

Saturday our biggest 5 probably went 15-16 pounds .. but nothing over 3.5 pounds 

Sunday we stuck with the same plan  -  and had same results

 

Good fishing, didn't have to fight so many boat ... but there was one boat thought it'd buzz us planed out at about 20' .... I wish I'd have thrown my crankbait into his boat as he went by. CAN'T STAND THAT

 

Yeah, there is definitely a lot of luck factor involved with this type of format. Glad to hear y'all were catching em though! I hear you on the idiots running full speed right by you. Even if they were trying to stay in the channel....should have slowed down to go by you. I did like that there was a lot less boat traffic up that way.