05-29-2010, 09:00 AM
This is for this morning and yesterday. Yesterday started out great on topwater up until the epic monsoon blew over the mountain and across the lake. The walk-style topwaters are still producing the best keepers for me, although the trap would have been the money maker if only I could get them in the boat. I tried different colors, new hooks, bigger hooks...they would absolutely crush it, but they&#39;d come unbuttoned for whatever reason. The spinnerbait is still getting vicous strikes, but the size is dwindling more and more everyday. In the afternoon I finally got fed up losing fish along with Taylor whoopin&#39; up on me so I switched gears and picked the topwater back up and did fine up until the time I left for work. Ended up with 20-25 fish for the day, around 8 or 9 keepers, best five was somewhere between 16-17#. <br /><br />Today I got out for a few hours mid-morning and had a bit more success on landing fish. I started out flipping laydowns and got bored with catching 13&quot; dinkers, so I picked up the blade and did work on 6 quality keepers, including a 4.75. The rest were solid and full of shad, most being 2.75 - 3.5lbs. I&#39;m still tossing shad pattern baits with a little bit of chartreuse for most of my fish. I&#39;m heading to Cleveland tomorrow to pick up another lower unit (not holding my breath, though...), so maybe I&#39;ll get to chase the deep fish starting this weekend or early next week. <br /><br />Jake