Launched from Jamestown Ramp at 6 am on Friday morning. Bass Pros was out of shiners, and I go lucky getting the last 1/4 pound at Adams BP, but the shiners were good sized and healthy. Jamestown Ramp is still easy to use, one lane, but well marked.

On the way out, idled the length of the Jamestown Dock, passed the shad lights folks had out, and saw no shad flipping, and no schools of bait marking up. Few fish marking up close to the docks. So headed up into the back half of Pumpkin Creek, put out a light, and tried to catch bait. Bait was hard to come by, and 10 throws of teh net in 20 foot of water gained me just 2 dozen threadfins, but there were fair sized at 4-5 inches, and added to the few shiners I had.

First Planner board set was just south of the island in Lilly Creek. 2 Guide boats in the are also. Trolled live bait at depths from surface to 50 feet clean out to the mouth of Lilly with just 2 hits, both were just little tugs, then gone. Barely enough to make the planer dunk.

Next worked Caney from the first corner to the mouth of Wolfe, same board spread, no hits. No jumps seen, little bait marked. Went deeper up in Caney, clear up to where it ends, with no wake buoys just 200 feeet from the end of the creek no that the water is down. One thro of the cast net there at 2 pm netted 150 pieses of threadfin shad, and small gizzards. What a mess to sort thru, but got some good bait, and release the balance.

On the way out, at the Caney Creek Ramp (Left side headed south in Caney), saw some surface pops going on in teh back of the cove, and occassionally out at the no wake buoys at the area entering the ramp area. Zora spook worked, and 2.7 pound small mouth was landed. Good area to watch, as it borders deep water, and seems the smallies push bait up there.

Next bottom fished main lake, and saw guide boats doing the same. I went up from Wolfe, towards teh Springs, beached, and fished there. in 2 hours got 12 to 15 hits, but all turned out to be smallies, and or KY bass or cats. They huit shiners, and shad, live or dead. No real size to any of them, biggest smallie was 1.7 pound.

Shadowed the "STRIPERS DESTROYER NAVY" outside the mouth of Jamestown Marina from about 5 to sundown. I bet the Stripers if there felt like U-boats with all the active sonar pinging them. One small surface rucus at the point on the left side of the entrance to Jamestown, just before no wake buoys, and on your way into the marina. But the 2 boats there barely got to cast once before they dumped and dove and never came back up. The "DESTROYER NAVY" seemed to try to follow the fish down the walls toward Low (NO) Gap, but thru my binos, I saw lots of boats, lots of folks sitting down and no body casting. Ever seen the moving "Run Silent, Run Deep? These guys and boats looked like a pack of destroyer escorts running a silent pickett line. I don't think any more surface stuff happened. I broke from the Navy and checked first turns in Wolfe, Caney, Lilly, and walls up the right side of main lake to Harmony, then coves down the Springs side from Harmony to Wolfe. No jumps, no pops, and seemed like no other boats looking there.

Settled in and trolled live bait again from Lilly to Jamestown as dark came in, and did so till I reached the point at Jamestown Harbor entrance. Again, nada.

So, good trip to catch smallies, saw no jumps all day other tahn a couple boats attacking a point at Jamestown, bait can be had, but seemed to be much easier to get once sun was up in the back of the creeks rather than before the sun came up and under lights.

Gas in Russel Springs and Columbia was 3.09 a gallon, but only 2.89 at Jamestown Bass Pro.

Did anybody else do any good for Stripers, or are we still in that transition period with surface too warm for the jumps to really fire up.

I think for no on when I go, I'll leave a note here to say when I plan to hit the water, how long I'm staying, and will post my cell phone number. If you are down, and want to hear what I'm doing, just call, introduce yourself, and I'll share whatever is up. Be glad for info in return. I mean if we're going to team up on the Stripers and run sonar screeens to find them, we ought atleast have voice commo to coordinate the attack.