Shell Knob memorial weekend

[Biglerma]

Shad spawn in full swing every morning. 

Surprisingly not as much fishing traffic as I expected this weekend.  Fished Sat/Sun/Mon mornings on the water at 5:30.  Top water bite was good Saturday and Sunday with lots of schools of K's chasing.   Saturday had a nice mega fat 19 inch LM and 18 inch SM along with some other keepers.  Mostly on WP or fin.  We threw 1/4 oz swimbaits the rest of the time.  I use the speed shad vs keitech.  Saturday I would say we caught 25.   Did not see another fishing boat for the 1st hour.

Switched to crappie fishing w/ scope at about 7:30 am Saturday morning.  We cleaned 12 nice fish.  Just one here or there on deep timber down 12-18 ft.  Minnows.

Sunday the top water bite was hot again.  Fished til about 8:30, caught 30 or so.   Sunday evening was flat out insane.  Threw swim baits off points and just absolutely smoked em.  At one point my father in law had 7 fish in a row.   We fished 2 points all evening and caught 25-30 mostly K's with the occasional LM or SM.   Saw maybe 2 other boats.

Monday morning the fish just did not want to do anything on top.  Threw swim baits and still caught em but there was far less chasing.   I think we caught 3 or 4 on top was all.  Still managed probably 20 for the morning before we headed home.

Most top water fish caught on WP and when they wouldn't hit that we threw a fin.  Could not get bit on surge shad.

-Mark Bigler

[snagged in outlet 3]

Nice!   25-30 fish trips are awesome!!

[cheesemaster]

Great weekend! Thanks for the report.