Who ya Pickin? Redcrest on the Rock.

[Quillback]

Cole Floyd is hanging in there going down the bank fishing a chatterbait.  He's catching LM's.  

[Bill Babler]

OK, here it is;

Wheeler fishing the dam shaking a minnow. All community holes. 

Gill, Campbell Point Swim Beach and Hobbs Hollow, community holes. 

Coke Floyd. James River Schoolhouse. Chatter bait. About where I was yesterday. Big difference I learned something. He is right on the bank 3’ of water. I was to deep.

Ehrler Clevenger Island then I don’t know. 
 

Connell all over the place. 

Strader . Same bluff up the White I saw him on 2 days this week. 

Cooper Big Indian Trace Hollow. 

Little Jones Little Indian Baxter. 

Evers and Neil. Saw them everyday this week in the back of pockets fishing bedding fish. 
Don’t think that will play. 

I have not been using FFS, without it go into the flat pockets and the flat windy banks and cast a swimbait. 

Dru Gill is in Spotted Bass and Small Heaven. They are on exactly what he is fishing. If he just throws a swimbait there he will catch 20 pounds this period. 



 

 

[Quillback]

Thanks Bill - most of those place I have not fished, too far out of my day trip range.  

[Quillback]

Strader going down the bank tossing a spinner bait.  Some old school stuff going on.

[Bill Babler]

Strader fished the first period where he has been all week  

He is now on the bluff going into the James 

If you see tea color water they are in the James. 

I would not be doing anything they are doing. With this wind the SM would be chewing on FLAT GRAVEL. 

There are lots of ways to catch fish here and right now fishing windy flat gravel is a no brainer.  Just not something they do.  Never saw an MLF boat on it all week, while the locals hammered them on it.

With this heat the big K’s will be pulling up into the flat pockets this afternoon.

 

 

 

 

[Quillback]

Hey, is Wheeler up the Kings now?  He's fishing the bank too.  I thought he'd stay on those smallies.

[Bill Babler]

Said he ran an hour. I planted some tomatoes so I’ll have to see. 

[Dock-in-it]

I watched them practice each morning and I knew there would be guys that had no chance of making the score tracker click routinely enough to stay in the game.

This morning I go to a spot looking for the possibility of a post spawn bite over trees.... trying to stay out of the way. Then Justin Lucas shows up, so I stopped fishing and just watched for about 15 minutes as he was trying to catch a shallow fish (I think he is in last place). He leaves and I exit as well. Then I go to a flat gravel pocket and no one is there so I stop and catch 4 using the technique that Bill has discussed. Todd Fairbcloth shows up ( so I stop fishing) and he zeroes in on a spawner for several minutes as the Gill/Wheeler score tracker is clicking away. There is a bunch of shad 75ft from his boat and he never makes a cast.

I weighed my fish and I was in about 12th place about half way through the first period. With 30 minutes left in period 3, I am not in last place.

Seen Justin Cooper and he is doing very well and he was on a very flat point fishing very shallow. 

[Bill Babler]

Right now for some reason they have  no clue. 

It’s kind of funny. In JT’s Table Rock blog he told them where to fish.  Said flat gravel and really no one is on it. 

I’ll flat tell you Olliverson would have caught 100 pounds today. 

Latter part of the 2nd. and 3rd. period with the wind blowing on that gravel it would have been a catch fest. Not only Jaws, but the K’s would have been all over it  

Also those timbered rocky cuts with wind the good fish would have been on a Magdraft BIG TIME. 

These guys just flat hate clear water. Just have to be up the James in the tannic stuff. 

Gill did fine flipping his senko in the clear pockets but they left a lot of fish swimming.

Didn’t watch the last hour, mowed the grass  I do believe Wheeler ran to the Kings  he said he ran an hour from Take off  

 





 

[Dock-in-it]

I just followed score tracker throughout the day and just watched a few minutes of highlights. I fished Thursday between PT9 and PT16 and caught them OK but it appears Drew fished the same spots/area for part of the day and made a highlight reel.