Bass Fishing Report

[Ham]

We fished daylight to dark. Launched at Quarry Park.

Cool and windy first thing.

Warmer and more wind later.

Some clouds, but they were high and thin clouds. Water temp (surface) 57'.

We got 16 or 17 bass in the boat and lost a handful more on the way to the boat. NO fish on topwater.

Several patterns are working, but we junk fished using a little of this and a little of that rather than sticking with any one technique or type of water.

Got there early looking to play with some stripers. Saw a few and had a few half hearted swipes at surface baits, but no hookups.

Caught some smallies and largemouth on mainlake deep banks draggig a jig around.

Caught a couple of nice fish on a blade on windy banks (most banks were windy, some were very windy) with chunk rock(softball to basketball size).

FINALLY caught a few fish on banks not on the main lake. On a cloudy day, I would have spent a lot more time doing this.

We caught a few crankbait fish. Mostly smallmouth, but a largemouth or two as well.

I caught the only spotted bass on a grub near bottom in 20 foot of water around a boat dock. He was nice sized though.

Watched AGFC release 5000 8 inch blue catfish into the lake. Saw a Bald Eagle resting in a shore line tree.

Finally caught a single small striper right at dark on a grub.

A really great way to spend a day with a good friend. The number of fish and the activity level was good enough, but I need to find some bigger fish. We would have had three keepers, but all fish were released.

[Cajunangler]

Doesn't sound like too bad of a day. Who did you convince to fish all day with you? Oh yea, that was me. I think you forgot about the small striper at the end of the day. A lot of fun but also a long drive for one of us.

[Ham]

I dunno, I kind of like the drive up to Table Rock. More bites on "fork", but less size than the rock.