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Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Fall
Technique
Crankbaits 0-6'
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Forage
Bluegill
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Summer
Technique
Grass Jigs
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Fished a derby on July 18th 2021. Look for open pockets in the submerged grass on the west side of the lake. Flip jigs in to the pockets and soak them for a good 30 seconds. Caught 6 fish on a black sapphire stealth feider jig paired with a Googan Baits Bama Bug Krackin craw. 3 largest fish of my limit were on this. Then rounded out the limit with one on the Stealth feider jig in Black/Brown Amber paired with the Natural Krackin Craw. Last fish of limit was skipping a weighless lunker log under a dock. Fun lake and you will do a lot of damage early in the day (before 10am). Once the sun got high it became very difficult, especially on this very steamy July day.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Summer
Technique
Finesse Jigs
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Middle of June, water temp in the mid 60's. A lite black and blue jig in vegetation brought in a best 5 fish over 17lbs. Have a Texas rigged worm or weightless senko style bait on hand fished the same way also produce many 3lb+ fish.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Summer
Technique
Bladed Jigs
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Middle of June, water temp 68-73. A white ZMan chatterbait fished around vegetation produced a good amount of 3lb.+ fish. a spinnerbait a lot caught a few.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Spawn)
Technique
Topwater Popping
Structure
Lily Pads
Forage
Bluegill
Water Temperature
60°
Fishing report is for May 12th, water temps were in the upper 50's to low 60's. Weather was clear, with a decent breeze out of the Northeast. First time on this lake and I was scouting for a tournament later this summer. Tried a bit of everything. Up super shallow and saw a few spawners. Caught a couple fish on a chug bug (not Pop R) early near pads and matted weeds. Then caught my first frog fish of the year up super shallow. Then later with the trolling motor up high caught one on a small soft swimbait and lost a couple others. Overall a good day out on the water.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Summer
Technique
Swim Jigs
Structure
Docks
Forage
Bluegill
Had a Wednesday night tourney on Goose and caught around 25 Largemouth and another 10 Northern in the span of 3 1/2hours. I spent half of my time skipping wacky rigged Junebug colored Yum Dingers under docks on the Daiwa Rebellion ML spinning rod. What an amazing rod for the money, I'd put it up against much higher priced rods, maybe my favorite spinning rod in my lineup. The other half of the time I was throwing a 6th sense divine swim jig, bluegill color with either a Keitech swimbait or a Strike King Rage Craw as a trailer. I would throw the swim jigs into the reeds and then parallel to the lillypads between the docks before I got back into dock skipping range. The 6th sense swim jig is fantastic at coming through vegetation clean and has a really stout hook to rip through as well. I fish it straight braid when going through the reeds but will add in a fluro leader if fishing open water.
Strike King Rage Craw Watermelon Red / 4"
Out of Stock
Daiwa Tatula LT Spinning Reel - EOL 3000 / 6.2:1
Out of Stock
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Summer
Technique
Drop Shot
Structure
Points
Forage
Bluegill
Water Temperature
70°
Grinder of a Wed derby, water very high after wet spring. Some boats couldn't get under bridge from little goose. We caught our biggest on a hard bottom point on the edge of weed clumps with a dropshot senko
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Post-Spawn)
Technique
Frogs/Toads
Structure
Lily Pads
Forage
Bluegill
Water Temperature
72°
Outing was for the evening of June 19th, fished our Wednesday nighter from 5 to 8:45pm. Weather was light winds from the north, with mostly sunny skies. Water temps in the low 70's range. Water was very high with most shores flooded. We tried the inlet on the main lake with no luck, then tried some docks with catching a dink and a barely legal 13". Then tried some frogging and got some hits, but not a lot of eaters if you know what I mean. We stuck with the frogging as we were getting a decent number of hits, not a ton of actual catches. I feel like they weren't really eating it and just hitting. But overall caught a couple more keepers with one being over 5 pounds. Overall weighed in 3 fish for 8.9 pounds to come in 3rd place and take home the big bass cash. Overall for the league it was a very tough night with high pressure weather after a ton of rainy days.
