Fake News Fishing Report 4/27

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I was heading back to Taney this morning and hit something on the road out.  Tire was flat in seconds.  Took me about an hour to change it.  The spare has been under my truck since 2012 and it looked it. 😆.  I went back to the condo not sure if the spare was safe.   Dumped my boat in here and ran to the back of the cove.

  I had been through my regular regular rotation of cranks, jerks, spinner bait, floating worm, jig and senko.  Nada.  Put on the dreaded Ned and immediately started catching.  Caught a few spots, a couple small smallmouth and then hooked something better.  Nearly 20” white bass!      
There was water coming in the creek and I guess they liked it.  Quit counting after 10 or so.  Spent almost 2 hours picking them off here and there.  Going back and forth to let them rest.  Had a great time!   
  In reference to the title in case you didn’t know.  I spent untold hundreds of dollars chasing the mythical white bass run for years.  Never did experience it.  In fact at Swan one year, we pulled up hopped out and got in line with everyone.  Nada.  Nobody catching any. Then boom!  I caught a nice rainbow.  Almost 19”.   Nobody could believe it.  So every year when people post about the white bass run I call it fake news.😂

 

[fishinwrench]

Hell yeah ! 👍 

Were they squirting eggs & jizz ? 

[Johnsfolly]

Pete glad that you got to experience some of that white bass fake news😉

[BilletHead]

        It's about time Pete. Bad luck into good luck catching your unicorn. Congrats on your fun morning.

[Quillback]

Couple of weeks ago we got into the whites on Beaver, non-stop action for about an hour and a half.  Good ones too.  Went back to that spot a week ago and they were gone.  

Congrats on some good fishing!

[Foghorn]

I kind of wondered where you were going with that title . Some healthy looking fish.

[Bill Babler]

On the Whites I don’t know so much if the news if fake or not.  I try and never give much of a report on whites mostly cause “ They either is or they ain’t.”

They are just about the most Jeckle and Hide fish there is during the spawn.  They turn off and on like a light switch.  If your there when it’s on its 1 million candle power.  45 minutes later your groping in the dark.  

I always do better on them in the Sumner when they’re chasing shad or the Winter when they’re deep. 

Great post Snagged. 

 

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Bill Babler said:

On the Whites I don’t know so much if the news if fake or not.  I try and never give much of a report on whites mostly cause “ They either is or they ain’t.”

They are just about the most Jeckle and Hide fish there is during the spawn.  They turn off and on like a light switch.  If your there when it’s on its 1 million candle power.  45 minutes later your groping in the dark.  

I always do better on them in the Sumner when they’re chasing shad or the Winter when they’re deep. 

Great post Snagged. 

 

 

 

 

No truer words have been posted.  I chased the white run for years.  Never hit it and quit.  

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12 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

Hell yeah ! 👍 

Were they squirting eggs & jizz ? 

No, neither.  🤷‍♂️

[Travis Swift]

We got into a big white bass run a Beaver for several years in a row.  The weird part is you couldn't catch a single dang one during the day but when we went back in this cove/creek at night we caught them all night long.  Go back during the day and they were gone.  Was fun as there would be a Striper mixed in occasion as well.  We caught all of them on road runners but they flat wouldn't touch any plastic tailed road runner.  Had to be marabou and had to be after dark.  So weird but was a hoot.