The past two trips have been tough with warm water (85ish) hordes of little popcorn shad everywhere! I mean those little suckers look so thick you could walk on em. The grass is coming on good for a change and I had a few bites on a rat, but all the fish we caught were small. For some reason they are not pulling a lot of water in the mornings? Maybe it's better in the evening?
Sounds like my normal luck this time of year. I just can’t seem to ever figure them out.
I haven’t been in 6 weeks due to work and dang heat. Looks like going be several weeks still.
Went today, very tough. Like you said those little shad are everywhere. We caught 4, 2 keepers biggest a little less than 3 lbs. Toughest day on OH in a long time.
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Think out the norm and you will catch them.Fished there a bunch last year and had some really good days fishing my style.No big ones but numbers.
My son and I fished last Sunday evening around bull shoals up to the steam plant ramp. I put one in the boat and lost 3 more during the fight. Only thing I could get bit on was a small square bill. Like you said shad everywhere.
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