Kim City - April 11 - General feedback

[Dock-in-it]

Deep swimbait (not good for me).

I have been trying to find deep suspended fish and have not found much. You can find plenty of shad but no fish and there has been a very steady shad kill going on for two weeks. Also the gizzard shad have consumed the upper water column and they are very prevalent around areas with trees. The high volume of gizzard shad makes it difficult to hunt deep suspended fish. I have not tried very many gravel points/runouts with the boat in 20ft and casting up shallow. 

Last year, the month of April was great for deep suspended fish and this April I get a reminder why they call it fishing vs catching. 

 

SHALLOW Fish. A fair amount of fish are on the bed or cruising up shallow. The issue is the shallow algae/slime and floating slime. 

I looked shallow for 5 minutes this morning and seen 6 LM. 

I think the last 10 days were probably tailored for the Ned Rig guys. I do not have any Ned tackle so I am just guessing that the fish have been on the bottom in that 10 to 20ft range.

Water clarity varies in each location. 

WT 58 to start and probably gets to 60ish in the PM.

 

[Flippin]

Dock-in-it

I consider you more of an expert on the deep fishing that I am but I will give my amateur thoughts.  Usually when I am around gizzard shad I can't catch fish and I move.  I think those gizzard are so large that when they eat one they are done feeding for a long time.  

[willyfish]

All hell above and below the water is about to break out. 

[dtrs5kprs]

17 hours ago, willyfish said:

All hell above and below the water is about to break out. 

Time for a good cold front.

[willyfish]

4 hours ago, dtrs5kprs said:

Time for a good cold front.

I'm going to a different lake this weekend but I'll keep it to myself. I don't want anybody following me 🤣🤣

[dtrs5kprs]

On 4/11/2023 at 4:20 PM, Flippin said:

Dock-in-it

I consider you more of an expert on the deep fishing that I am but I will give my amateur thoughts.  Usually when I am around gizzard shad I can't catch fish and I move.  I think those gizzard are so large that when they eat one they are done feeding for a long time.  

If they're swimming around waking on the surface, that's a prime time for a redfin, or bigger swimbait, including the hard swimbaits.

[Quillback]

9 hours ago, dtrs5kprs said:

If they're swimming around waking on the surface, that's a prime time for a redfin, or bigger swimbait, including the hard swimbaits.

I caught several small ones on a Surge Shad couple of days ago, plus another 4 or 5 swirls.  They just did not seem overly interested in it, yet.