Kim City - April 6 - Perhaps a 1K fish for the Big Bass tourney

[Dock-in-it]

I fished this morning and the bite was really good. On my first cast I was fortunate to catch a LM in the 6 to 7# range on a swimbait. I kept the boat in 40 to 55 FOW all morning. The LM seemed to used the top of the water column down to 20ft and I caught them casting. I caught plenty of SM and K's fishing a 3/8 Damiki vertical amongst shad and they liked the 30 to 40ft range.

There were lots of white bass in the shad and I caught a few approaching the 2# range. 

The lake was an absolute zoo yesterday and I thought today would be really busy but it was manageable to my surprise.

The wind was blowing and made boat control a steady job.

The picture of the big LM did not turn out too good because I have tennis elbow and not able to hold up heavy objects with my arm extended. 

[AR Huzgr]

Big'un!    That definitely would have scored some money in the big bass tourney!   6.57 is tourney leader as of this moment.

[Mitch f]

3 hours ago, Dock-in-it said:

I fished this morning and the bite was really good. On my first cast I was fortunate to catch a LM in the 6 to 7# range on a swimbait. I kept the boat in 40 to 55 FOW all morning. The LM seemed to used the top of the water column down to 20ft and I caught them casting. I caught plenty of SM and K's fishing a 3/8 Damiki vertical amongst shad and they liked the 30 to 40ft range.

There were lots of white bass in the shad and I caught a few approaching the 2# range. 

The lake was an absolute zoo yesterday and I thought today would be really busy but it was manageable to my surprise.

The wind was blowing and made boat control a steady job.

The picture of the big LM did not turn out too good because I have tennis elbow and not able to hold up heavy objects with my arm extended. 

Great job!

[cheesemaster]

Wow - Awesome!!

[Quillback]

Great fish!

[Champ188]

Hey Dock, at least yours are still swimming where they were caught, had their picture taken and were released alive and healthy rather than getting beat half to death on a ridiculous boat ride all the way to Johnny-palooza in Long Creek. At least have some consideration for the resource and stop killing big fish during the spawn. 

[Dock-in-it]

Fished this morning and the boaters this weekend left a few still willing to bite.

Fished in 20ft around timber and shad. Using swimbait and Damiki.

WT 55.5