Patoka Report

Went to Patoka yesterday. Put in at Walls and fished around Osborne. Wasn't there 20 minutes and had a 4lber in the boat. Caught her in the grass on a flat with a texas craw. Kept fishing with no bites. Seen pods of fry. Tore the fry up to try to get a bite, with no luck. Caught 2 more keepers (squeekers) in a pocket on a topwater walker. Went back to the same spot I caught the first fish and wore it out with a buzzbait. Caught another solid 4 lber. Fished til dark. All in all, 6 fish with 4 keepers.

Water was clear and 80 Degrees. Grass was chopped up from the pleasure boaters cutting the flats short. Found a couple small pods of fry. Bluegill were all over the banks. Small bass were roaming also. Small bass looked to be schooled up in the middle of the creeks. I don't think I have seen so many big carp in one day before. Would have loved to bowfished.

Nice report. Thanks.

Been seeing lots of bowhunters there. Could use a couple thousand more.

The Visitors Center will take the carp you get to feed the eagle. Something to think about.

thanks for the report pal

Hopefully I'll be back up there this coming weekend or next week sometime. I love chasing the fry! Need to replace my trolling motor steering cable. Was Pming the gears and all and the cable broke. I feel that I didn't make my recess box long enough and it puts the cable wire in a bit of a bind. Got 5 years out of it. Then again I am pretty hard on the whole thing. $36.

Good luck everyone.