Fishing Reports
115 Fishing Reports
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Fall
Technique
Ned Rigs
Structure
Rip Rap
Forage
Crawfish
Water Temperature
64°
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Fall
Technique
Bladed Jigs
Structure
Ledges
Forage
Bluegill
Water Temperature
69°
Kind of threw everything and the kitchen sink. Calm water and found a number of 14 - 15 inches...nothing consistent with what I was throwing. Ozark rig and rage craw, flashy underpin and freeloader, bassman spinnerbait.
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Fall
Technique
Crankbaits 0-6'
Structure
Dam
Forage
Bluegill
Water Temperature
70°
Very windy. Had success by the dam with medium shallow cranks. This one came with a cast all the way to the rocks and a quick retrieve.
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Fall
Technique
Neko Rigs
Structure
Humps
Forage
Bluegill
Water Temperature
66°
We were fishing sand and mud drops. Since the water was so low there was nowhere else for them to go except the mud drops until the water raised back up. We caught just under 15lbs for 5 and placed 2nd in the state championship.
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Fall
Technique
Swim Jigs
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Forage
Shad
Water Temperature
68°
fished in the Iowa highschool state tournament. ended up in 15th/50. caught a 4lber and a 3lber to start the day off and filled the rest of our bag with dinks. If you could find side channels that led to wintering holes and targeted super shallow wood with swim-jigs you would get bit. But if you made it all the way into wintering holes you could find them staging in 10ft of water which was perfect for a wacky and DT10s.
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Fall
Technique
Frogs/Toads
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Forage
Bluegill
Water Temperature
68°
Placed second in a tournament here on West Lake with 17.11lbs and a big bass of 6.13. Caught our fish all on frogs up in a foot or 2 of water. Key was finding warmer water since a huge cold front blew in the night before.
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Fall
Technique
Swim Jigs
Structure
Reeds
Forage
Minnows
Hit solid on the reeds for swim and creature swim jigs.
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Fall
Technique
Texas Rigs (Pitch/Flip)
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Forage
Crawfish
Water Temperature
73°
Fish were keying in on the deep weed line.
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Fall
Technique
Soft Swimbaits (Sm/Md)
Structure
Docks
Forage
Minnows
Water Temperature
70°
flipping deeper docks and clean up docks and back rip rap with swimbait
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Fall
Technique
Shakey Heads
Structure
Standing Timber
Forage
Crappie
Water Temperature
59°
Very windy, cold day. While Prefishing found them good in brushpiles but nothing very big, tournament day they had moved and it was a very tough bite but they wanted the Berkley general on a heavy shameyhesd near the standing timber and letting the strong wind kinda just blow my shaky head through the timber. This 5.5lber took big bass and and helped us get 3rd with almost 13 limit of 5 fish, 14lbs won this HS derb
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Fall
Technique
Drop Shot
Structure
Standing Timber
Forage
Minnows
Water Temperature
56°
Had a decent day on the water. Caught biggest fish of the day on a jig worked slowly in standing timber close to creek channel. The overall best producer was a drop shot worked slowly in the standing timber tho.
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Fall
Technique
Crankbaits 0-6'
Structure
Points
Forage
Bluegill
Water Temperature
59°
Wind blown points was the most productive for me. Caught the biggest of day with a stop and go retrieve with a flat side crankbait. I also caught quite a few smaller fish with a buzzbait on the shallow flats.
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Fall
Technique
Structure Jigs
Structure
Docks
Forage
Bluegill
Water Temperature
60°
I caught em on a Slack-Line Jigs skippin jig in a bluegill pattern. Put a rage menace on the back of it. The bigger bites seemed to come off the docks on the main lake points. We also caught a couple good ones back in a creek under some docks.
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Fall
Technique
Crankbaits 7'-12'
Structure
Points
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Fall
Technique
Bladed Jigs
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Forage
Bluegill
Caught 10-15 largemouths...nothing big though...on mini max green pumpkin with a hog farmer spunk shad trailer.
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Fall
Technique
Structure Jigs
Structure
Standing Timber
Forage
Crawfish
Water Temperature
63°
It was a pretty tough bite. Luckily my partner caught a 6.21lb kicker. We caught most of our fish flippin around a 1/2oz black and blue jig and a 3/8oz Shakey head. We were fishing pretty fast to cover water because the fish were so spread out. Most of the stumps were in 6-8ft of water.
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Fall
Technique
Structure Jigs
Structure
Standing Timber
Forage
Bluegill
Water Temperature
59°
It was a low volume bite day but the bites I did get were quality. The large mouth were in timber with best depth being approximately 10 feet. Slowly dragging the jig was best presentation for the day.
Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Fall
Technique
Drop Shot
Structure
Standing Timber
Forage
Crappie
Water Temperature
64°
Very tricky today on 12 mile. Caught one decent one first cast deep cranking but couldn’t get another bite on the crankbait the rest of the day. Dropshot around standing timber got multiple bites, all very small though.