Tom Kelly caught some good ones yesterday on the spoon in Float Creek. More too. All fish were released. We like that.
The lake level is 554.68 and they have cut down discharge by about 1/2. We dropped 4-inches in the last 24-hours. It was 7. They need to keep dropping to about 548 before the spring rains. Fish were biting pretty good yesterday on the spoon and the lake is clearing and is in good condition. Surface temperature is just over 52. Tom Kelly caught some nice bass yesterday in Float Creek just outside the refurbished Game and fish brush piles. They put a lot of them in Float Creek. I have maps of them on the gameroom wall as well as Blackburns Brush piles. We have been putting them in for several years in the absence of the old ones being taken care of. The group of Game and fish biologists are working hard to make the lakes better and enhance fishing. It is greatly appreciated. I like their quarterly reports. Catfish have slowed way down with the big moon and lake drop. I am not catching as many bluegill also and they usually like the full moon as do the red meat fish. Some guests have been fishing for stripers hard and are having mixed results. They go out for a couple of days and catch nothing and then finally find a large school of fish over shad feeding and catch a bunch. It is hit and miss. The bass are a little deeper in around 35-40 feet where they were closer to the bank. You have to get down to them and the spoon is the best. Some big crappie are with them. I am fishing brush in 20-25 ft. of water for crappie with fair success. Maybe 2 on each pile. I like to find a good brush pile with fish on it and stay there and wait for them to bite but it is not working now. They bite for about 10-minutes and quit for hours and are roaming. There is a lot of shad now with a mixture of very small ones and some about 2-inches and just a few of the schools are holding fish. If you are fishing for stripers you have to keep looking for feeding schools and not waste your time on the ones that are not even though they have fish on them. There are several striper boats near the bridges but only a few small fish caught. When the water gets colder they always get lock jaw every year. The boats aways covey up in December for some reason. Find a bird and you find a boat.
