FISH CATCHING TRAVEL

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Tip of the Day

To make a pile of trailer hook keepers just take a lid from a plastic coffee can and use a hole punch.  You can make a ton and they keep your spare hook on the spinnerbait no matter how big the fish is.

Weather

82/68   Cloudy and windy with rain chance increasing during the day.  20% chance.  Wind S 10 – 20.  (It blew way harder than that most of the morning.  Easily as hard as yesterday, and more of the same tomorrow.)

Lake Levels

Yesterday  96.44 msl   Today  96.45   (Staying stable and the fishing reflects that.)

Solunar Times

Good  7:39 am to 9:39 am.  Best  1:51 pm to 3:51 pm.

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She was interested and finally spooked.

The plan was simple, be at the point with the shad spawn at daylight.   So as it was breaking daylight I dropped the trolling motor in the water and it began.  To make a long story short, once I located the shad and the bass on the point, they were chasing like crazy.  I dropped the power pole down and spent an hour and a half catching fish without moving.  They were mostly small, but boy were they willing.

These are the guys who are spawning.

Basically I just waited for them to chase and tossed the spinnerbait on them and it was an immediate bite.  The point was slightly protected from the wind, and with the power pole down in 4 foot of water I could reach a big area.  And it really got interesting when they would get a little spinnerbait shy so I alternated with a prop tail topwater, which they loved.  Catch a couple, change, catch a couple, change, until after catching well over 20 it was time to move on.  The point, find them chasing early and until this spawning time is over they will do it most mornings.

This girl smoked it!  It always amazes me when one this size materializes out of a bush and smashes it.  

From there the rest of the day was alternating between the spinnerbait, topwater, swim jig, and pitching the stick worm.  They ate it all, and as the morning wore on they got tougher on spinnerbait then the swim jig and pitching took over in what passed for “calmer” places.  Now don’t get me wrong, they stayed on the spinnerbait, and on the super windy banks one would occasionally smoke it.  But boy were the windy banks tough.  In the calmer areas I would stick with the swim jig unless I came to a big piece of cover, then it was a pitch, and a bite.  One fairly good one did manage to break me off in a big pile of trash.  To make the day the one above just crushed it, love those big fish on spinnerbait.

A swim jig fish and a stick worm fish.

I fished from daylight until 2:00 and boated an easy 30, they are definitely on the chew, and I can only imagine how good it would be if you could fish anywhere.  The wind was just pounding, and while you could catch fish on spinnerbait on the super windy banks, trust me, you were flying down the bank.  Tough work, but productive.  I fished up both arms and mid lake, and they are on most places, at least where there is cover.  It is one of  those times when they will hit most anything, and unless they are chasing shad they are tight to cover.

So what a productive day.  After  a spotty spring with big cool downs and falling water the bite is finally on.  The change came the minute the water stabilized.  It will probably be a little tougher catching big fish, many are post spawn, but there are still a few out there looking to get caught.  Unfortunately we have missed most of the rain, but have another chance tonight, we are getting to the need it stage.  A good soaking and the fishing will stay good, and with a rise might even get better.

Unfortunately the wind continues and I am waiting for the first little break, which looks like later this week or early next, depending on the forecast.  So the bay stays on hold a day or two, but I am itching to get back.  Terry, who guides stripers on Texoma dropped me a text and invited me up there, and I am working on getting that done late next week.  He is catching some nice big stripers and it will be nice to get my string stretched with some good eating tossed in.  When all he red is taken out of a striper filet it is one of the best fish around.

Not sure what is next but it is spring and there are fish to be caught.  The lake is fishing fine now, and the spinnerbait bite has saved some of these windy days when fishing much else is a real hassle.  Today the lake was white capping in every direction, and there were few places to get out of it.  But some of those little isolated coves and pockets have fish, it is simply a matter of tossing the right bait in the right place.  Seems so simple.  So keep stopping in and thanks for reading my stuff.

Good Luck and Tight Lines