The bite has gotten tougher but is normal for this time of the year. The upper end of the lake has miles and miles of weed beds for the fish to find cover in. The hot weather drives the fish deeper in the South End of the lake around the rock piles and holding on the deeper breaks and ledges. I have been concentrating my efforts with my customers on the North end of the lake working baits around and in the weed beds. We have had limited success with topwater baits but have managed to catch some zara spook fish. Reaction baits such as crankbaits, spinnerbaits and chatterbaits have been putting some fish in the boat for some fisherman. The lake is still dropping with it's water level and the hot weather has brought on some pretty severe algae blooms in some areas. Overall the tournament weights are still very impressive with winning weights for the past couple of tournaments being 26 lbs and 28lbs for the teams best five fish. Some fisherman are still fishing with live minnows with success. I also have been playing around with live crawdads with my customers who prefer to use live bait. The largest fish caught this past month was a 9lber landed by one of my ten year old customers.
With the fishing being tough overall, lot's of weeds and some areas of the lake with lot's of algae, you can pretty much have the lake to yourself during the week and weekends are not very busy. I have been averaging 8 to 10 fish with my customers and the key is using a variety of baits and moving around and covering a lot of water to find fish. We have caught fish by flipping baits with heavier weights into the weed bed pockets, drop shotting worms around the edges of the weed beds, and working topwater baits early in the morning just before sunrise.
The bite should pick up as we go into the fall. The fish will start to feed more aggresiveley and more bait will start to show up.
My photo pages show every trip I take, the size of the fish and the number caught. If you are reading these reports and need any additional info, feel free to leave a comment here, or email me for more info. Thanks' and God Bless, Bob
With the fishing being tough overall, lot's of weeds and some areas of the lake with lot's of algae, you can pretty much have the lake to yourself during the week and weekends are not very busy. I have been averaging 8 to 10 fish with my customers and the key is using a variety of baits and moving around and covering a lot of water to find fish. We have caught fish by flipping baits with heavier weights into the weed bed pockets, drop shotting worms around the edges of the weed beds, and working topwater baits early in the morning just before sunrise.
The bite should pick up as we go into the fall. The fish will start to feed more aggresiveley and more bait will start to show up.
My photo pages show every trip I take, the size of the fish and the number caught. If you are reading these reports and need any additional info, feel free to leave a comment here, or email me for more info. Thanks' and God Bless, Bob
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