"it has begun"
Made my way to the lake alone at daybreak. I do not fish alone often so it was kind of strange not having anyone to blame for the pre dawn flatuation. I owned it and it felt good! Anyway, off to find bait hoping last week was a fluke. It was not. I could not find it anywhere again. Jaime did report seeing it in the afternoons so I waited. About 3:30PM it finally showed up. They are tightly schooled and on top which I have never seen them do for this long a time. It makes it very hard to catch them, but catch them I did. I managed about 300 of the fattest shad you ever did see and I was off to check the offshore spots. I had 5 spots in mind and did not see a single fish on any of them. That sucked.
I decided to fish the side of a point that I know they like to cruise. I had the boat anchored in 14 feet and was casting in to 17-19 feet of water. I started there about 5:15PM and fished until 7:45PM. In that short period of time, I caught 21 Bass, 12-15 big White Perch, a Bullhead and a Pickerel. The bass were post spawn and STARVING! The biggest fish was 24 1/2 inches (usually 8.5-9.5lbs.) and weighed 6 pounds! It was a lot of fun and the other spots should be turning on real soon.
