No white bass pictures here.
The lake level is 551.67 and dropping just a bit with a few hours a day running one generator. The surface temperature is 59 degrees. The lake is still stained for this time of year with visibility only a few feet down and this is changing daily for some reason. We are very dry and need rain badly. Crappie fishing has slowed but you can still catch some if you work the brush with a spoon or grub. A few are being caught on minnows but not many. I am catching several every day but have to work for them. Some are moving to the bank in the evening and are being caught bass fishing. Some good bass are on the banks in the evening and morning but many are still in open water on shad. There are many shad everywhere and most do not have fish under them. Some stripers and hybrids were schooled by points 1-c and 7 but this is old news. You have to move around a lot to find any red meat fish feeding and many are small. I am concerned about the numbers of large stripers with the summer kill. There are not nearly as many as usual. There are many small fish with hundreds of them and white bass about 8-inches long. They are changing the law to eliminate the 20-inch minimum for stripers in the summer. That is good and it should not have been implimented in the first place. All of the fish caught out of deep water die and venting does not work as some people proclaim. There were small stripers that were released floating around all summer. Culling also should not be allowed. Catch your three fish and quit. A few walleye are coming in but most are also small. The night bite has not happened this fall but if there is any it could happen with the full moon of December coming up the 3rd and the surface temperature still approaching 60. I should and usually do catch walleye this time of year but the nombers and size are low but an occasional big one is showing up. Not many were caught by fishermen and very few by scuba divers this summer so they should be there. If you use live bait, put out a half dozen rods, have a good locator, and troll through enough shad you will catch some fish. I am spooning brush for crappie and catching white bass and bass. My brush is at perfect depth now and the fish I am catching are mostly at the 25-ft. level. There are shad just outside brush in deeper water but I am not catching much off them. Bass fishing in the evening on the bank is getting better and the fish are getting bigger. The big fish are there. I bet the Bass Masters will catch them next week. They always do. There will be a lot of spinner baits and cranks baits bounced off the shore next week. The 1/8th and 1/4 ounce Bink's spoon is working for about everything down to about 30-feet and then I change to the 1/2 ounce. The blue one is my favorite. Try to keep your spoon staraight up and down. The weather is to remain warm for the next several days. Blackburns has several fishermen in now and they report the morning bite is the best. They are taking advantage of the low cabin rates and free boat stalls. Some places close for the winter but Blackburns is open all year. The lake is in excellent condition.