Mid Lake - April 11 - Deep swimbait

[Dock-in-it]

Fished this morning and the bite was pretty good. I kept the boat in 30-50ft and used a 2.8 Keitech. Bounced around to several staging locations and caught fish with and without shad present. You can find plenty of fish in areas without shad, but they seem pretty smart and tough to catch. In a scenario where a group of fish are actively feeding on shad you can catch multiple fish from the group. But if you see a small tight group of fish without shad then you are probably just going to catch one because the chaos causes the group to disperse. 

Plenty of locations have massive balls of shad without any fish in sight. 

Caught LM and K's and they all looked healthy. 

Fished several locations and after all the rain the water was still extremely clear.

WT 55.5

 

 

[Bill Babler]

Fished KC area last week and water was extremely clear. They liked the Floater. 

Had fish coming off the bottom at 30’ just shooting up to check out the 1/16 oz. Jig. 

Got so silly on one that I was watching the fish eat the bait on livescope and watched my float go down on the panoptics at the same time. That’s when you know you might have it dialed in.

Scrambled to lift the 12’ rod and nearly laughed myself out of the boat  Chinese Fire Drill