I'm in serious NEED of fishin lessons

Fish are in the creeks and bays, just like the baitfish. Keep throwing, maybe shakeyhead in 6-10 ft.

I fished small bays/creeks yesterday and only managed 3 fish. Huge schools of shad everywhere. Several were so large that my front depth unit showed me in 2' of water when I was in 12! Bass busting all over them. That is frustrating.

[QUOTE=colvin;468991]Fish are in the creeks and bays, just like the baitfish. Keep throwing, maybe shakeyhead in 6-10 ft.[/QUOTE]last weekend...not so much. nothing there.

One of the keys right now is activity,lack thereof and one is a long time between bites.
Ive been fishing wind swept pea and chunk rock points,topwater buzzbait,horny toad,gsplash when chop permits it catching 15-17 in fish nothing to write home about yet more keepers than non.
Bay mouth pea gravel points being the best producers.Depth 1 1/2 to 4 ft,on Ky.Barkley should be close in nature with flats next to deep and shallow points creating a wall for them to corral food.Eating 5 to 7 in gizzard shad right now.

Ditto on my end. Quick trip Sunday and caught last few hours on KY before dark. Did drop in on some schooling bass / yellows. Nothing big but did manage several keepers out of that school. On thing that was kind of surreal was I kept moving towards the jumps, staying as quiet in the boat as I could and at one point found my boat in the middle of the jumps. I mean the fish were blowing up so close to my boat I am surprised I didn't feel them bouncing off the sides. I could have touched them with my rod tips! But Monday was the pits. I found myself back on KY in the morning and ended up throwing ultralight cranks to get some action. Finished on Barkley in the afternoon and same slow action but did scratch out 2 or 3 that would keep. Tough conditions with the bright blue skies, mostly calm winds, and as the fish are in transition mode. When the weather changes they will bite. I look forward to the surface action just around the corner...

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