Launched the boat at 0600, clear skies, just a little bit of a breeze in spots, water was greenish stained with 6 feet or so of viz, with scattered debris floating around. Mike M was in the boat with me.
We went up Indian creek a ways intending to bass fish, but we started seeing stripers chasing shad on top, so needless to say, we started throwing top waters at them. Had some pretty spectacular blow ups on the walk the dog baits, but most were missing the bait, had a couple knock my spook three feet in the air, always fun just to see the blowups. We boated a couple of 5 pounders, and I lost a bigger fish in the trees. The stripers stopped once the sun hit the water, so back in the cove we went to bang the cover for bass.
Couldn't find much of bite shallow, we caught a few spots on various baits, c-rig lizard, shaky head mainly but just weren't getting a whole lot of action.
We decided to fish some bare, rocky smallmouth banks with Keitechs and we started to pick up a fair number of smallies, Mike caught one that was just short of 18" and had another to the net that got off that looked to be a bit bigger. For whatever reason the smallies were up shallow, 3-10 FOW for the most part. We ended up with about 25 bass, maybe 7 or 8 keeper sized smallies.
Water temps got as high as 68, air temps hit 88 when we left.
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