Eric,
It should not be long and the bass bite will be going good. We have already seen signs of things pointing in the right direction. Some small mouth have been showing up on some of the Rip Rap shorelines along the river next to the deep holes in the dam area. Don’t get me wrong, this is not a real common occurrence right now. I have caught a couple of smallie’s myself and talked to another guy just last week that had one over 20″ on a jig and minnow casting for walleye. Some largemouth have been showing up as well in some of the back water areas on the upper part of the river if you know where to look.
I don’t think it would be a wasted trip, just don’t expect to get on a bunch of um.
We weree doing real good on pool 6 in that warm weather but when that cold weather came though things really slowed down. 4 foot flats with good weed growth has been the ticket. Making sure you weere just nipping the tops of the weeds.
Ya Hey Eric, Here’s an interesting tip, and a rule of thumb I’ve used for years and one nurtured from my years fishing
the TVA lakes in S. Missouri. and NW. Wisc. :
Let nature give you your que – In the Ozarks when the Dog Wood trees bloomed, the Bass where mov’n shallow .
Up in our neck of the woods I don’t watch for Dog Wood, but I watch the Hawthorn Shrub. It’s a low 3-4′ shrub used as an ornamental around foundations, fences and borders. It’s the first flowering shrub to bloom, and you can recognize it with its yellow spike like flowers running vertically along its branches. More simply, the water temps will be 55-58 degrees, thus the bass will be moving shallow and feeding!!
GoFish
Kensyl Reading——EFN ProSTaff
Hey Eric , Our club had its first tourny today ,we caught some nice fish but the numbers were low .We fished a small city lake in Memphis Mo. Big fish was 20 .750 “and several more 19 s were caught . It took 3 fish to win. We are a bump and dump club so we keep track of inches not pounds.
IN smaller streams and rivers, bass have already began “pre-spawn” activities. I have noticed “pods” of very aggressive fish. This past weekend, fishing a “nondesignated” stream for trout, I ran into some nice smallies!!!
Believe it or not, I caught 2 very competetive 1 1/2 pound smallies on one#11 rapala!! The rap couldn’t take the added weight, bending the last ring, losing both treble and fish! We hads camera in hand, but in the process of removal and “snappage” only one of the fish remained!
Jim W
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