04-20-2010, 09:00 AM
Wanda and I ran down to the Riverpark this AM for a couple of hours of fishing. I wanted to try topwater a little bit and also to throw a new plastic bait on jigs to see if they would be productive. The plastic craw produced the biggest fish of the day, a 4 lb 6 oz beauty that was weighed and promptly released. I caught a 3.25 lb largemouth on topwater. I got several bites on topwater, but only hooked up 1 for every 5 bites or so. Lost some good fish that did temporarily hook up and threw the torpedo back at me. Wanda was catching some small spots on a small crawfish lure. They actually tore up 3 of the smaller craws that I had glued on. <br /><br />I picked up the little minnow bait and began to catch several fish. I kept switching back and forth between top, minnow and craw. I believe that more fish came on the 2&quot; minnow on a 1/16 oz jighead, but the craw had several bites as well. I put a bigger craw on just before we had to quit and it produced the biggest bass of the AM. I thought at first that I had the elusive 4 lb spot that MrWiskers says doesn&#39;t exist at the Riverpark, but alas, it turned out to be a largemouth. We fished 2 hours and landed 31 spots and 3 largemouth bass. Water temp was 66.1 and the flow was only 7,000 cfs.<br /><br />We did see Fishinfool and Fishin Fire at the ramp. They were getting ready to launch as we were pulling our boat out. They should catch a bunch today as well. emoGeezer