Dave Stewart the pond

[crigjv]

Mr. Dave,

I was wondering if you could help us out this week with maybe a short brief update on Monday and Wedensday. There are alot of tourneys this weekend coming up. For the more then less weekend warriors this cold front has hurt our bite and cannt do much with the fish. I was hoping that you might take a short minute and give us a brief update of what the cold front did to the lakes and what we can expect with the warm up coming this week.

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE

[Dave Stewart]

I will give you an update when I get in this afternoon. I am leaving town tomorrow for my annual get together with ol military buddies, family and friends on Tuesday and will not be back until late Friday so I can't update you later this week before the weekend because I won't be on the water myself and won't have my information from my information network available to me until I get home.

The water temperatures are dropping for sure though and I expect to see more shad and bass shallow as the week goes on. The biggest tournament down here this weekend was the NBAA and it was won in deep water so the deep water bite is still prevailing in the tournaments here but that could change this week.

Dave

[Dave Stewart]

Here you go:

The base water temps dropped to 69 degrees as of this morning...that is a 6 degree drop since my last report (last Thursday). The NBAA championship tourney over the weekend was won with 24lbs total over two days. It was won by fishing a deep ledge and a deep point. On the deep bite the Carolina Rig with small creature baits and dragging a football head jig has been the over whelming majority of best presentations in the reports I have gotten over the past few days.

But, I have noticed some increase in shad movement toward the shallows and we picked up a few bass that where light in color back shallow yesterday...indicating they had just come in out of deep water. I would expect the shallow water bite to pick up as the water temperatures stabilize over the next day or two with the present weather forecast. Our best shallow water bite has been slow rolling blue glimmer spinnerbaits in 4-8 ft of water and slow rolling a red eye shad in chrome sexy shad. I had three other reports of folks on this same shallow pattern yesterday. Some topwater (scattered) is being reported on a sammy and a gunfish, I would expect this pattern to increase in the near future. Also had two reports of shaky head with green pumpkin and watermelon worms is working.

Basically, the bite is being reported as slow for keepers, which is normal during the fall transition.

I hope the water temps stabilize some this next few days for you and the bite picks up on the keepers for you folks coming down this week. Be safe and watch where you are running...the lakes are low and lots of folks are hitting bars, submerged structure etc by running in areas they have no idea what is below them...use the navigation buoys.