It stayed cloudy until 11:00am. The fish bit pretty good until the sun finally burned
through. But we still eked out a pretty good day.
I love this game!
It stayed cloudy until 11:00am. The fish bit pretty good until the sun finally burned
through. But we still eked out a pretty good day.
I love this game!
Lookin' Good! How deep? I fished Baxter to almost Shell Knob and back last Saturday. That's not my area, but wanting to learn it better. Fishing was very piss poor for us with maybe 8 or 10 fish boated. Had several pull offs. Main lake gravel flat points with FB jig 15-25 ft. first 4-5 hrs. Spooned a few deep docks with only a few shorts. I think we could have drop shotted a few, but not there to do that. 1 keeper all day. Going back this weekend for more abuse.
Paul caught all of his on a wacky rigged yamasenko in 2-8' of water. I caught one on a
spook and had several on a little green "Bill Norman" Andy custom painted for me. The
smallies really slammed the crank bait. Also had several "follows" right up to the boat
by big fish that wouldn't go ahead and take it.
We have been working topwater and shallow baits early with good success.
Between Baxter and Campell Point are several areas where the MDC has put in rockpiles. We have been using FB jigs in 25 to 32 feet and having the best luck casting them toward shore and dragging behind the boat "counting rocks" most pickups are while dragging. by late morning when the sun is strong we have had good luck dropshotting similar spots.
We will also be fishing the Shell Knob area on all upcoming weekends till winter sets in.
I went this morning. Had 5 (1 keeper) real shallow on jig before lower unit went out at 8:30 near Point 7.
We went out at Shell Knob again this morning and got a half dozen on topwater (1 keeper) then a dry spell before my partner caught a 10lb 4 oz walleye dragging a football jig in 22 ft of water near Point 21. Drop shot was spotty till 3 when we called it a day. Will hit again in the morning.
We've caught a few 'eyes over there over the years, but never a 10 pounder. That's
awesome! Those things eat real good.
That walleye was a monster. I think it will be in the local paper on Wednesday. This morning (sunday) was foggy and the topwater bite was weird. The short fish would just bump it but I did get a 5'2 largemouth to swallow one and put up a tussle. A slow day after the sun came out.
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