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4/26/12 Update/conditions/results

4/26/2012

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  ""WOW""  It's been a busy month and that's a good thing.  For those of you who may be thinking of booking a trip, please try and book out as far in advance as possible.  After 14 years of fishing this lake full time and after nine years of guiding full time, I have a lot of regular customers and popular months such as April book up fast.   This past week saw the biggest fish of the season and even all of last year being caught.  A ""Beautiful"" pre spwan female that weighed ""10 1/2 lbs"".  Pictured and released right away.  The lake is still fishing strong even though we are not catching the numbers we did a few years ago.  A typical trip is averaging 10 to 20 fish depending upon the type of baits we are using.  Most of these past few weeks of trips have been with live bait.  Water conditions are good with all of the creeks now running clear and water clarity is good in most all areas of the lake.  The fish are in all stages of spawning, some have spawned out, others are spawning now and even more are moving up daily to spawn.   The spawn here will go through the month of May and even into part of June.  I have to classify the artificial bite as slow right now but on sunny days you can ""Sight Fish" or known as Bed Fishing and catch several fish for your trip if that is how you like to fish.  We are still using live bait for those who prefer it and it is still very effective.  The FLW Stren series tournament starts today.  They should have around 120 boats and the weights should be impressive.  I will be attending the weigh in and will update results and techniques here later on.   With the fish moving to the beds and with sight fishing popular and also effective, the  Alabama rig has dropped off  in effectiveness but is still being thrown by a lot of people.      Now is the time to use baits such as senko's, drop shot's, jig's and carolina rigs.  The topwater frog will also start to see some action as the fish are spawning up shallow and will hit  the frog under the right presentations.  This is a hit and miss technique but can result in catching some fish. 
      It's been a real ""BUSY"" lake with the casual folks, and the tournament folks, all hitting the lake.  The lake has topped out at 5.83 feet on our scale and I doubt it will rise much further unless we get some late rain fall.   That's it for now, stay safe and God Bless.   Bob
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