Patoka water temps?

[Frenzy]

I'm not knocking the big jig. I'm knocking the "1.5 ounce bubblegum booyah jig" considering I don't even know if booyah makes a 1.5 ounce jig and I know for sure that they don't have a color called "bubblegum" so I doubt that particular jig would do me a whole hell of a lot of good.

[bassman409]

Welcome to tournament bass fishing Frenzy..........

[gg]

Frenzy,
I had posted (some where) on the board...to try a white transparent crank baits on the deep side of grass. (near deep water...( Ex.The north west side of the 145 bridge) Most people target the trees at Patoka and I have always grabbed a handful of keepers doing this... In May 05' caught one over 5lbs. It is not the easiest pattern to fish...especially in good wind....but that does not matter.

I am not sure the weather that day.. but especially if the grass in getting good wind and the skies are bright.

[idbefishing]

Lets me get this straight, you would rather based your entire fishing/tournament day on what someone, you don't personally know, told you instead of your own experience? You must have not been fishing tournament for too long. Not to discredit any of the poster who gave you info but I personally only trust my best buddies when it come to fishing info. FYI, I am too live 3-3.5 hrs away from Patoka. If the tourn. is on Sunday, I definetely plan ahead of time to be there on Sat.

[Frenzy]

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON May-17-06 AT 06:07PM (EST)[/font][p]I went to the lake a day early. I just wanted to have some sort of idea about what stage the fish are in and anything else that might give me an idea of where to start. Almost 9,000 acres is a lot of water to cover going into something blind. Even if I'm just going down to fish for fun I like to try and get some information on what's working, etc...

[Moose1am]

I fish mainly for crappie these days. The word that I have from PL is that the small crappie are very active and it's hard to not catch them up above Walls.

I know that several years ago I fished dumplin creek in May and caught about 100 little crappie using a white lighting #18 1.5" long plastic hollow jig body from Bass Pro Shops and a 1/16oz lead head minnow jig that I got at Walmart. That and I put a chartruse crappie nibble on the bait.

I took friend that's 78 years old with me that time and they caught a lot of fish and had a good time. This is the type of fishing that the little ones may enjoy. Lots of action all day l ong. But it's difficult to catch the larger fish with all the small fish being so active.

I would suggest using larger baits for the bigger fish to avoid the small fish. I am talking about baits at least 3" long or maybe you might get by with 2.5" long baits.

Tipping a small 1.5" jig with a 2" long shiner may work too.

As for bass I can't help you there.

I heard that the fish have not spawned yet. That comes from my buddie PL who fishs the lake every weekend unless he has to work.

Regards,

Moose1am