september 5 had a great laborday weekend. despite the high winds we really had some great evening fishing with the butch winters and musgrove party. my boat limited on wipers 16 and threw 60 whites in the cooler. leons boat did the same. morning fishing has been tough. evenings the opposite.there is an signifigant walleye bite with mostly short fish. a little slow on the crappie.
august 20 well certainly dogs days of summer here. lots of hard work to pull off good days fews. been fishing mornings then back out in the evenings for a decent evening bite. probably going to keep the evening bite for my guest. not much room there. otherwise lots of schooling action in the evenings but the bass move on quick. go to the flooded timber for some nice whites. particulary around noon. ok on the crappies in the beds and went through 6 dozen minnows saturday. the morning bite is tough. we will have some nice walleye this fall with a bunch in the 17 inch range. im catching wipers with live shad and have the tank in the boat. 3 to 6 pound. we caught a 14 pound striper with the loren kott group and how do i get more groups like those guys. class acts!!! still some catfish on chum.
uly 24 had a terrific saturday and caught almost 60 nice cats in the 3 to 5 pound range. Then got on the wipers in thje evening and i have cut up hands to prove it. wipers in the 3 to 5 pound range. looking forward felt the first cool morning sunday and sure enough the whites turned on breifly and there was some seagull action. so if we can continue with some cool nites we will se some spectacular slab spoon action for whites and mixed wipers. for you walleye fanatics plenty of catch and release action even now. feel i can catch wipers every day now and even broke out my shad tank and bought a new throw net. water level is about 6 feet high and dropping. have plenty Availability for august and september but filling every day so would be best to nail something down. call for the speacia rate. jeff
uly 8 chumming operations have began and caught 60 nice cats first day out with the quigly group. 3 to 5 pound range. size is better this year so far. caught 40 the next morning and got rained out at 10:30 a.m. also bonus whitebass still surfacing. so best of both worlds. still have good august dates open at a speacial rate.
June 30th. wow,wow,wow beeen catchin 200 white bass per boat per day over the weekend. hosted the reha party and the davis's and both boats came in with around 2 coolers of whites each. slowed some monday and tuesday but still managed 100 per boat. cool front. should have good white bass for the next week. i see one guide headed to the weeds every day for catfish but i'm bettin he doesn't like to clean so many fish by himself. we will begin some deep water chumming next week as well as the weeds in case the whites slow up and i fully expect they will. but just can't pass up such a whitebass boom. wipers are active but its requiring some deep water trolling with some big divers. my divers are running 17 to 19 feet and can catch a limit for everybody with a committment of time. lots of smallmouth on the dam. crappies are still av available.leon caught 17 inch walleye today. have a safe 4th. and we have lots of spaces available in August. and september.
june 23. sorry for the lare update. spilled coffee in the computer!back online now. White bass surfacing! wipers early in the morning. still have short walleye biting. so alls good here. the lake is really up about 5 feet but the water is clearing. we have a big weekend coming up so hopefully we will get everybody into the fish.
mjay 27 still crappies shallow. we really took a lot of crappies this week in shallow around 4 feet or less. try the causeway bluffs,dam etc. also deep crappies on structure 20 feet or so. many whitebass trolling and we filled the coolers in a 35 mile per hour wind on my favorite cut bait trick.walleyes still plentiful but the keeper rate is a little so-so. 40 walleye with one keeper. the shorts are in the 15 to 17 inch range. so still a bunch of fun. next up for me is night fishing,deep crappies,cutbait whitebass. and going to get better at catching 6 pound wipers on live bait. still some June openings and we are still running our sportshow,website speacial of $75 per person. look for spawning cats, on the rocks in the next week. bowfishermen the gar are in. and should only get better. look for our nite fishing lanterns glimmering in the nite around June8 to 18th. look for topwater whites around june 22. have a great memorial remember our fallen and pray for the people on the gulf coast. what a mess. Jeff rader
may 15 crappies still good and still shallow. also good numbers in deeper water near coves,creeks, causeway and dam. My freinds Howard and Les Doty were down and really worked over the walleye for 3 days. About 3 to 5 keepers for every 50 fish. The shorts are in the 14-17 inch category.Many wipers caught and some in the 5 to 6 pound range. Whitebass plentiful but largely ignored for now due to the tremendous crappie run. Look for one heck of a whitebass fishery this year. By the way the little crappies are showing up heavy with little jigs in the brushpiles which assures me there will be good crappie fishing for the next 3 years at least. I have many good junes dates left and were running our speacial.
may 3. sorry for a bit of a delay.(been turkey hunting) back on the fishing. So here goes. the crappies wide open! moving shallow and deep. With stable weather should be a good 2 weeks. Walleyes coming up in the short category. Catching 50 to 60 perday in the 15-17 inch range. with 2 or three keeper (18 inch) in that bunch. Going to be good in the future. expecting to see more keepers in the next few weeks. Meanwhile bring a lot of nitecrawlers! White bass starting to be picked up trolling. so the next few weeks are really going to see some nice fishing with good weather. crappies showing up everywhere, marina coves,bluffs,dam. all the coves,mill creek causeway.
April 20 catching some nice crappie in deep water. leon had 40 plus crappie days this week. also good crappie in shallow water. crappies not on the beds and have to look for them in deep water flats. also shallow coves with rock. and trees. whitebass up the river and catfish a bit slow. look for the walleyes to kick on next week. still running our $75 per person speacial.
April 8. Just got a big front through here. Im going to pre fish some crappie tomorrow. Have guest coming in soon. Walleye spawn tapering on the Dam. Heard my first reports of whites up the river. I'll venture up there Saturday. wipers should be showing on the shallow points with wind blowing in on them. So i have a lot of should be's here and i will start to confirm these thoughts in the next few days. Anybody want to trade some plumbing for some fishing or hunting. im finishing up a few rooms. still runnin the $75 speacial book for next summer and recieve this rate. jeff
a very hot update here. April2. Many limits of walleye being taken on the dam. walk trolling with rapalas,rattlin roughes. Also casting rapala's and jigs. virtually no crappie action,and lookin for the whitebass run in the next week or so up the river. we have our $75 speacial going . Book now for the 2010 season and recieve lodging and fishing for $75 per nite. 2 nite minimum.
pawning walleyes this week and next. been some rough weather but this week and the next is it. Crappies to be caught deep. catfish in the shallows. we are again running our sportshow speacials at $75 includes lodging and yours truly for a guide. good dates available. in a few weeks we will thinking abaout whitebass up the river
Ice out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! last of the ice went out this week. So have at it boys and girls!!!! Crappie in the beds. Catfish in the shallows gorging on shad. trout in the trout pond. 3/11/2010
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