Kim City - Dec 7 - Topwater, swimbait, 1/2oz spoon

[Dock-in-it]

I fished this morning with great conditions (mild air temp and no wind) and finally got to experience the winter time surface chasing. I idled thru an area for an 1/8 of a mile with shad balls everywhere, but no fish to speak of. Once I got past the concentrated shad I kept idling and luckily found the fish grouped up in an area with limited shad. Caught surface/chasing fish on topwater wake bait and 3" swimbait. Also caught plenty of deep fish on 1/2 spoon on 6# line. The 6# lets the small spoon drop very fast.

They would bite the scope spin if you had multiple fish chasing the same small group of surface shad. 

The fish ignored a 7/8oz spoon,  5/8oz ice jig, and Damiki rig.

Today, I used 2D sonar vs FFS because FFS was showing too many distractions (blue gill, crappie, gizzard shad,,,,etc). I use FFS a lot but decided to go old school today.

WT 55

[Bill Babler]

Thought it was getting close to Dockit season. Great report thanks. 

Seems the deep bite is somewhat shallower. We had some last week as shallow as 22’. Everything for us and some nice concentration at 35’-38’. 
 

[Quillback]

I was wondering where Dock-n-it was too, glad to see you back at it.  

There was a bit of a top water bite on the lower end of Beaver today, water had to be flat calm.  Only managed a few small ones on top.

[cheesemaster]

Sweet!! I am a bank beater and don’t use graphs hardly ever - mine are pretty junky anyway - so I appreciate a picture of an active graph like you posted. Very cool.

[SplitG2]

Great report. Thanks for sharing. 

[196champ]

Jealous!

Nice work and solid fish!

[Hawg]

Nice