08-28-2010, 09:00 AM
Had a real good morning of fish catching today. Put in at CFP about 7:30 and headed to open water flat with a drop to about 26&#39;. Marked lots of bait and fish. Caught 3 nice keeper LM on Gulp Minnow using dropshot rig. Then the cats started to eat my Gulps so I decided to move to another area I wanted to check. <br /><br />Second stop was another open water spot with a creek channel running through it as it nears the main river channel. Place was loaded with fish and tons of bait. I started with the dropshot again, caught one nice bass about 3# and then a couple of nice cats around 4-5#. Changed to a Hopkins Gold Jigging Spoon and proceeded to kill them. Could not lower the spoon to the bottom without getting a hit. LM Bass, Yellow Bass, Channel Cats, Blue Cats, and a couple of Drum. They were eating it up. Had one really nice LM Bass follow the spoon to the surface as I was reeling it in. He swiped at it and missed, so I dropped it right back and he hit it again, lol. At least I think it was the same fish. Had a hard time getting to the bass, as the cats wanted to eat the spoon too.<br /><br />I caught 11 nice LM Bass there, just drifiting around the general area of my marker, and landed 9 of them. Biggest was about 3.5#. I lost a couple at the boat by trying to be &quot;artsy&quot; and take a picture of them in the water, one last jump and they threw the spoon. Both were good fish. Probably caught 25-30 Yellow Bass, and at least 15 cats.<br /><br />Wind started to get really strong about 11:30 so I decided to pack it in. Had a lot of fun, and non stop action. The screen shot shows just one small area of the spot, It was just packed with fish over a fairly large area from 24-35&#39;.<br />If you just use your sonar to find a concentration of fish they are very catchable right now, and very concentrated. If the yellow bass are there the LM Bass are usually there too.<br /><br />All fish returned to fight again another day. <br /><br />