05-22-2010, 09:00 AM
This is a quick-trip report. I put in mid-lake and dropped the trolling motor from 11-1 earlier today. Jordan and I boated 9 fish, 8 of them good solid keepers in the 2.5 to 3.5 pound range. I targeted grass lines and stumps with a slow-rolled spinnerbait and a shallow-diving crankbait. All of the fish were stuffed full of shad. Pick any spinnerbait color you want so long as it&#39;s chartreuse and white. When they bit they would FULLY commit to it--I destroyed 2 perfectly good stanley spinnerbaits for 14# of bass...grr. My crankbait help up fine, but I ended up giving it to a gentleman fishing the dock out in front of where I was catching my fish. He asked me what in the world I was fishing with, so without having to explain myself in front of the other boats out there I just casted it on the dock to him and told him to keep it, lol! It probably made his day, but do be honest with y&#39;all...if you&#39;re throwing a shad imitation bait with any amount of chartreuse on it right now, you&#39;re getting bit. <br /><br />I&#39;ll be fishing a small church tourney upriver tomorrow, so I hope to have something better than a 2 hour trip to report. The fishing tomorrow should be pretty hot! And once again...if anyone can get hold of a late 70&#39;s Merc lower unit that came off a 85 or 115, please give me a shout. <br /><br />Take care,<br /><br />Jake