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By Quillback •

Big M area, May 28

Got to the launch at the crack of dawn, couple of other guys came in after me and as I cruised past Emerald Beach, couple of boats were launching there - lots of guys getting out there early.

Early is was flat calm, quite a bit of scattered top water activity on shad schools.  Seemed to be more shad schools than bass feeding on them and the bass were scattered, some on the bank and some mid channel with some in between those 2 places.  I couldn't get much of a top water bite going, got a few, and a few on c-rigged UV Speed Craws.  Later in the morning I caught a few on a 3.8 Keitech, a couple came off a dock end that was over 60 FOW and a couple off steep rocky points, never could find any schools of bass for the Keitech, just some scattered fish.  Caught a smalls on a crank bait and had a few bites on jigs but never boated any.  

Wind really got going so I called it a day around 1130.

15 bass total and a few other species.

 

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Yeah the bass were definitely swimming with the gar, however I have found that later in the summer and into fall the gar will school up in certain areas and I haven't found bass around them when they do at that time of year.  

I was at the mouth of the Kings a couple of years ago in the fall, saw top water activity quite a ways away in back of that island near the mouth, I was probably at least 1/2 a mile away and could see the "blow-ups".  Hoped it was black bass or maybe a big school of whites.  Shot over there and it was nothing but gar and lots of them.

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6 hours ago, Quillback said:

Yeah the bass were definitely swimming with the gar, however I have found that later in the summer and into fall the gar will school up in certain areas and I haven't found bass around them when they do at that time of year.  

I was at the mouth of the Kings a couple of years ago in the fall, saw top water activity quite a ways away in back of that island near the mouth, I was probably at least 1/2 a mile away and could see the "blow-ups".  Hoped it was black bass or maybe a big school of whites.  Shot over there and it was nothing but gar and lots of them.

I've run into the same thing in the late summer down on cricket creek. Got all excited until I got there, must have been thirty gar. 😕

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