Barkley

[Dave Stewart]

Mark
Thanks for the kind words. Maybe we can hook up sometime in the future for a tourney prep or one of the other type trips I do. Be careful this weekend....present wind forecast for tomorrow is 20-30 from the south...Saturday 18 from the South Southwest. The shallow bite should be good this weekend if you can get to the good spots for it. It was good this morning...had around 10-12 nice fish and a number of short fish on topwater...they were still biting on and off when we left them. If you check the results from the BFL tourney here last weekend you will see that it was a tough weekend on a lot of folks.

[MASBASS]

Dave

Yea i knew it was rough all over the lake. There were several tourneys that I know of an they all had trouble. Out of 5 two day tourneys I know of ours had the most weight with 16+ lbs with one of the other over 10 lbs the other three did not even reach 10 lb.

With the weather being what it is for the weekend it may be tougher than last weekend.

Thanks a lot for the information and we will get together one of the days.

[artcarney_agr]

I have one word for you:

SHAD, SHAD, SHAD, SHAD !!!!


Fished the BFL last weekend as a co-angler. My partner didn't want to chase the shad, but that was the key to catching fish! I fished a different style than him from the back of the boat (making long casts across the flats to the shad schools) while he beat the bank. Needless to say, he zeroed while I had two keepers. Probably could have caught more, but we were only in productive water for a short period of time. The Rattle Trap worked early, but as the day went on, the fish started just following the bait to the boat. Put on a Bagley and stuck one on the second cast. Then, the fish started just following the bait back to the boat again (big ones too, 4 lbs +). Tried all I knew to get that crankbait bite fine tuned(downsized, different colors, different retrieve, etc.) but they kept on following and not hitting.

My advice to you would be to pick the most productive bay you know. Go all the way to back (and I mean ALL the way)and just start fishing your way back out using small cranks or a Rattle Trap. Keep your eyes open and your senses alert! If you find shad fish 'em!

[Dave Stewart]

Shhhh....your giving away my best fall pattern...lol. Next time they start that following put the crankbait down and pick up a spinnerbait and slow roll it.

[MASBASS]

THANKS TO ALL OF YOU FOR THE HELP!!!!

I will let you know how it comes out.

[SlopFishin]

Shouldn't you be out on the water today? A little rain, thunder and high wind never stopped anybody. Uh, just kidding. I bet that lake is one nasty place to be today.

BTW, I'm still gloating over our victory a few weeks ago. LOL

PS - We need to hook up when those smallies move shallow in a few weeks.

[Dave Stewart]

Kyle: It definitely was a day for ducks today...heck they were probably hiding too this morning. Tomorrow doesn't look any better. Two days off the water for me...the fish will be issuing a missing angler report..lol.

[SlopFishin]

I'm itchin to get out there today, but it's just gonna be too rough. This ####!

[James]

SHHHH...Now Dave, now your giving away my fall pattern....One suggestion, pull out those big ole colorado blades and put them on. Make that blade beat like a baby huey chopper...

Skeeter

[trentonc2000]

fall fishing and Barkley, sigh...... I love it sooo much.