Anyone fished Kinkaid lake recently for muskie or bass??
Anyone fished Kinkaid lake recently for muskie or bass??
Fishing is Good! We caught fish on spinnerbaits, traps and buzzbaits.
What area of the lake u fishing? by the dam or up the johnson creek? main lake points or have they started to move shallow?
Whole lake! Fish were shallow on Sunday & Monday. I bet that changes with this cold weather.
Please post all Kincaid reports here.
Please provide conditions & date. Type of baits would be nice but I don't expect you to give up your secrets!
April 1st
Overcast to partly cloudy, Air temp 78 winds 15 out of the sw
Water temp. 63 cooling to 58 throughout evening. Fish were anywhere from 1 ft. - 8ft. loosely associated to weeds, wood and rock.
Fished spinnerbaits from 11:00 - 3:00. Caught 2 keepers and 8 shorts.
Fished buzzbaits from 4:00 - 7:00. Caught another 10 -12. One went 4.5 lbs. and another went 4.
April 2nd
Sunny, Air temp 80 winds dead calm
Water temp 63. Fish were very shallow and very tight to structure.
Sight fished and caught a 4 lber on a senko from 11:00 - 2:00. Caught another 4 lber on a spinnerbait. That was it.
April 16th
Overcast, air temp 75, winds dead calm
Water temp 55 - 59. Fish were very shallow and cruising.
Caught 5. 4 keepers and 1 short. Buzzbait!
April 22nd
Sunny, air temp 82, winds howling from the southeast
Water temp 59 - 60. Fish were very shallow and cruising.
Caught 4. 1 keepers and 3 short. Cane Toad and Senko! Alot of crap blown into the water - kept gumming up my buzzbait!
April 29
Sunny, air temp 86, winds 5 - 10mph from the west
Water temp 66-68. Fish were on beds. Water was mucked up bad from the boat traffic. Spawners were very skittish. I feel these fish were hammered over the weekend from multiple tx's. I fished late so the sun was suboptimal for sight fishing. I will try a midmorning trip if I can sneak away.
Caught 2 keepers - both 4 lbs. Buzzbaits.
may 6 just returned from kincaid water temp 72 fairly windy but not to bad caught two short bass on a texas rig redshad worm threw spinner bait alot did not get a strike my partner caught two small crappie on tube jig[he dont like to fish forbass]lots of boats and one or two tourneys fishing was slow!
May 12. 8 boat club tournament 16 fisherman. Only 6 anglers weighed in fish. 9 total bass weighed in. Alot of short fish caught by most. half the legal fish caught on buzz bait the other half on plastics. Big bass 4.2 lbs
Water temp 75, clear. Sunny skies. Post spawn lockjaw.
My partner did catch an 8 inch smallmouth. First one I have seen form Kincaid.
Enjoying life in Southern Illinois
fished kinkaid sun 5/18 water was in the low 70's. White spinner bait over the grass flats and bush hog and tube on weed edges. Boated 4 2 shorts, 1 chunky 1 1/2lb short and one 18" 2 1/2 lbs...very sunny..lot of boat traffic
Spent the last week on Kincaid. Fishing was great early but grew progressively worse as we approached the holiday weekend. Size dropped over the span as well. I observed bluegill or warmouth spawning and I have to wonder if they are aggressive enough to push the bass out of the shallows.
The only consistent pattern I found was senkos. One day was hot with white spinnerbaits, another with buzzbaits, another with prop baits and yet another with frogs. We averaged about 15 apiece each day.
Largest fish was @ 5 lbs.
By any chance what part of the lake were you fishing. And how clear is the water.
We fished all over the lake. Up Johnston's Creek the water was stained. Very clear down by the dam.
6-3-07
Sunny & windy 82 air temp.
water temp. 79
Bluegill are done! Bass are moving shallow. Caught @ 15 on poppers, frogs and spook style baits. 4 keepers.
Anyone have an updated report on Kincaid?
Jr. Willis
Very tough! I'm averaging 5-10 fish per outing. Mostly small. I'm having most of my success on Yamamoto cut-tail worms in Junebug early. I hear the night fishing is good.
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