04/30/2007

Water Temperature North End – 69 Rising
Middle South Main Channel – 68 Rising
Water Level = Normal pool and flowing
Water Clarity = Stained and Clearing
Last Rain = 04/26/07


Just a short report, the past couple of days fishing has been very slow. The weather front has taken its time and is dragging it’s way through here. Because of the weather the crappies are off the beds. The bass and gills are the only things biting. This morning I was guiding 2 new friends John and Ron. In 2 ½ hours we boated 2 gills, 1 bass and 1 crappie. The focus this morning was crappie and I cut the trip short to add time onto the afternoon for bass fishing. Wish us luck!

This is where I left the report on Friday morning. The crappie went somewhere and I had no idea how to get them to bite. John and Ron were doing their best to hide their disappointment and fishing just had to get better!

I picked them up at Ron’s dock at 1:30 pm and everyone had their bass gear on. I had a white and red spinner bait and a crawdad crank bait. John had a green/brown brush hopper and I had Ron tie on a crawdad crank bait. We started the afternoon fishing a mid-lake main channel shoreline. We fished it to a point and as we rounded the point John set the hook and pulled in the first bass of the afternoon. Shortly afterwards Ron set the hooks and landed a second. We fished up the shore from the point on a weedy shelve and to make a long story shorter, it was the here’s Johnnie fishing show! The show included a 3 pounder, 3 fish over 16”, 3 under 12” and 4 in the slot! See UBO front page

John was on fire and the bass were co-operating. What we fished into was a major feeding frenzie! At first we thought the fish were spawning on the shore but no, the bass were chasing threadfin shad from the deeps and into the shoreline and we were there to capitalize. Well, at least John capitalized.

When the action slowed down I went to another point and I caught one on the crawdad. We tried another main channel bank and nothing. We went back to the point we started on and nothing. Before the end to the evening we caught one more and you guessed it, John caught it on the brush hopper 10 minutes before we called it a night!

So, the bass fishing is hot! What happened to the crappie??

Fish On!

Mike O.
UBetcha Outdoors