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May 8, Big M area

Launched at 0600, sun was already just about over the hill by then, looks like I'll have to get there earlier in the future, love the early morning fishing.

Had a really good top water bite early, it lasted until about 9 AM.  Fish were in front of the buck brush.  Walked the dog, Yellow Magic Havana.  Put about 15 top water fish in the boat, had another 10 or so toss the bait, and probably had 50 blow ups total, maybe more.  Lots of fish missing it.  Not for lack of effort, they were really trying, some pretty neat blow ups, I enjoyed it, but there were a few good ones I would have liked to have boated.  Caught several keepers, smallies and largemouth, saw one big largemouth that rolled on the bait a couple of times but never grabbed it.

They just shut off at 9 AM, I mean it was like a switch was thrown or something.  Fished Keitechs for a while, never got much going on the Keitech, caught 5 bass on it.

Carp are spawning, bluegills are on the bank now, I saw surface WT of 71 when I left.  Water is stained green around point 23, up by point 25 it is stained brown.

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3 hours ago, Bill Babler said:

 Had the morning off and just hated to get all that road slime on the boat.  I just gave it a spit bath and waxed the entire rig and nothing makes a bigger mess on a boat than road rain muck.

Sounds like fun on the Stripers have they been surfacing?  We will of course expect to hear about it.

We caught a couple of 5 lbers on top Monday AM, and had I had another one that was a real striper that took me into the trees and broke me off.  There weren't a lot of them up, we were just lucky to be in the right spot.  May, in my opinion, is the best month for top water action in the lower end of the lake.  Helps to have a calm day where you can see where they are at, then if you can sneak up on them and get a top water in front of them, there's a good chance they'll eat it.  

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2 hours ago, Quillback said:

Well good to have you back, and you're not the only one to have problems.  Phil has been working with the support people to get things fixed.

Good to know I wasn't in trouble or something!  

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Monday afternoon i saw the biggest school of gar fish i have ever seen and the biggest gar fish i had ever seen. West of the camp ground, that big long bluff that runs kind of in front of the big M camp ground marina all the way down to that point was solid gar fish...

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