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[gillman]

Made it up Skaggs yesterday about 5:30AM, caught one about 2 lbs on a buzz after fishing 10 min. off the dead grass out next to the channel. Try that for 30 min. with no more hits. Try the old lizard caught a 21/2 lber and my little buddy caught one on a small crank bait and his first fish on plastic, he was happy, ( lizard). I caught another on the lizard, the last two were in the channel. That cool Front moved through and we could not get a smell of a fish. Hit some points with no fish in the boat. Went to Beaver and started fishing a seconddairy point were i had caught fish before and the Air change. We caught 2, one on the lizard and the other on a crank bait. Had two more good hits I missed because I had my head, you know were. Had to pull out, I think it was about 10:30, my fishing buddy had to go to work.

[bg64vw]

Went to Beaver Creek this morning and started over around the bridge throwing a variety of plastics with not even a sniff. Put on a shad rap and went shallow around grass stick ups and caught alot of fish, mostly small but alot of fish. Then hooked something that drug me all over the lake, thought it might be a cat or maybe a big foul hooked carp. Turns out I foul hooked the biggest soft shell slider turtle Ive ever seen. Didnt know they got that big.

[gillman]

I'll just happy with something pulling on my line

[brlfishing]

well, i will have to be working for most of the upcomming tournaments, but here is what i have found. if you want to catch quality fish on brl right now. early am go extreem shallow for some bassmaster type action. you will need 40lb spider wire braid, or 20lb spider mono will work. i get about 15 percent more bites using the new double bladed buohyaa buzz. color is not making a diffrence, untill sun pops out. then go dark colors. during the day and night time, you will have to DOWNSIZE your plastics. i was using a 10berkley worm and not getting crap, but my SI unit was showing bass everywhere. finnaly decided small fish are better than none and put on a 6 inch finess worm (floating tail) with a make shift carolina rig. 1/4oz weight about 2 ft from hook. made huge diffrence. however, you will catch lots of small fish this way, you just have to weed them out until you get a big one. hope this helps yall, i dont care to share since i have to work several days and miss some tournaments, im sure it will change by the time i get back on the water.

[brlfishing]

just so there is no confusion, the reason you need a heavy line in the am with the buzz is because you need to throw it in areas that have weed beds sticking out of the water. if you hang it up instead of moving in and scaring fish, you will need some strengh to pull it loose from the dead twigs.

[slimshad09]

fished sunday and tried the dead bushes and only caught short fish. managed to catch two keepers on deep walls. We got third with 8 lbs. Big fish was 5.66lbs. Not a bad day, but first place had 6 fish that weighed 18 lbs. They had some nice quality bass. we caught fish on everything we threw, just no numbers of 15 inchers. most were 13-14 in.