Fished the Cave on Weds Thurs and Friday this week. Found water temps at the surface of 72 to 79, cooler water up
the river away from the main lake. Water was somewhat muddy, but more muddy in the upper regions of the lake closer to the dam. They stopped pulling water on Friday is what I heard.
Found fish on the 15-25' break. Caught 3 nice largemouth around 23-25" on musky baits, all in less than 15' of water
on main lake points or laydowns near main or secondary points. I was throwing everything from Bulldawgs to Flicker Shads at em and caught several other keeper bass on flicker shads near laydowns. Found virtually no weeds at all except right at the bottom. The Flats were a desert.
Musky action was slow, one follow from a mid 30" and one in the boat, 36" trolling a deep taildancer in 25' near a
fish-attractor tree.
All in all a great trip, not too busy on the lake until Friday at 5, then Scott's Creek ramp was a zoo.
Saw one creepy old guy sitting in his jonboat snapping photos of the college girls sunbathing on the rocks across from the Scott's ramp boat dock.

They were working on the parking lot and docks at Claylick when I was there, dock is back in place and they were
pushing dried mud off of the parking lot. Alfrey was clear but the dock is still unusable, Scott's is fine. Warix is fine, and Zilpo ramp and dock were fine.

Seeing the craziness at Scott's Creek Ramp on Friday evening, up to 6 backed up at a time waiting to load or launch, dozen or so boats and jet-ski's hanging out waiting in the water, I realized how many people really don't have a launch routine at all. Saw so many people get in their boat and fiddle around at the ramp for 10-15 minutes. Saw people start their boat and try to launch, boat goes nowhere, still hooked to trailer. Saw on guy lose his boat when he launched, sent it out into the lake empty. Saw a guy try to tune up his motor and sat there for 20 minutes before some other guy came over and yelled at him to move it or lose it. It was pretty evident that a lot of these folks get out once or twice a year and have no plan of what to do or in what order when they get to the ramp.
Makes me even more sure that I never want my fishing trips to intersect with the pleasure crowd of weekends or holidays.

Tight lines.

Whit