Kim City 3-5-26 Recent rain & swimbait bite

[Dock-in-it]

I fished this morning after yesterday's rain and the runoff did have an impact on some areas. The first spot I tried had been producing a good surface shad bite and this location stained up and the thredfin were replaced by lots of gizzard shad. Fish were still in the area but they were not grouped up, which makes them tough to catch (for me).

The second spot had also been providing a good surface shad bite and it has a little stain and the shad and fished pretty much vanished. 

The third spot had not been holding shad/fish prior to the rain, but this morning it had lots of gulls and a few loons and abundant shad/fish. The lake is so busy that I just stayed in this location and was able to catch some on the swimbait. 

Some of the nice LM are traveling in groups of 2 or 3 (high in the water column) and they will commit to a swimbait really good. They are normally not bugging the surface shad in the area...which does not make sense. They will commit to the SB better than the smaller fish.

I am seeing lots of fish on the move in shallow water (<15) and they are normally off the bottom. I tried a jerkbait on some of these fish but no takers unless they are relating to surface shad.

There is some species of small fish that bug the heck out of the surface shad and I have not been able to catch these guys (I see this scenario throughout the morning).

 

WT 52

 

 

[Quillback]

Nice ones!

[Dewayne French]

Glad to hear you have been out and check on the areas that have been producing. Always a good place to start