Found a few Monday 4/1/24

[Steve McBasser]

Gary and I ran down to Shell Knob again on Monday, April Fool's Day. We put in at about 9:30 am and found the water temperature to be 56.5* to start the day. The warmest we found all day was just 60* way back in the back of a cove. The water was just a little stained but not muddy at all. The air temp when we got there was in the upper 60's already. It was feeling pretty muggy outside for April Fools Day. We figured that's why they were calling for storms last night. The fish we caught were scattered far and wide. We never really put together any kind of pattern at all. We had to do what Paul and I used to call "scrounging" in order to get bit. We caught 'em on a crank bait, a ned rig, a hula grub and a blade bait. I also threw an A-rig, a swim bait, and a jerk bait and had a few fish make half hearted passes at them but never hooked up. We caught some on bluff banks, main lake points with gravel or chunk rock, mid coves, and backs of pockets. Just one or two here and there. My buddy Gary only caught one little dinker. The better fish I caught came on the grub and a custom painted wiggle wart my buddy Andy painted for me. Then, at the end of the day, while we were fishing one of our favorite points, I heard somebody yelling at me as he was standing on a big boat dock. He said he recognized me from Ozark Anglers and he appreciated my posts..... That was kinda cool. Anyway, here's some of the fish we caught.....

[shark bait]

I went out last Sundayand fount the bite scattered as well. Caught some nice ones on a square bill and jig. My biggest was a 4 lb on the jig, halfway back in a cove, next to a stump in about 2 ft of water.