water temps had reached low to mid 60's in the creeks, clarity ranged from clear to lightly stained and the bass bite was unreal. several big fish were caught sunday through tuesday. the jerkbait bite was incredible with numbers and size. pitchin around the debris/logjams produced some big she bass for some of my buddies, forum member "BASSMASTER" had LMs over 6 pitchin. Mainlake is still muddy to heavily stained and the water temps still hung around the high 50's , the bite was slow but some big fish were caught in the wind blown pockets.
The lake has been dropping and the bulk of the debris is either on the bank or hung on something close to the bank, we havent had much trouble running for the last few days.
NOW....throw all the above out the window with over an inch of rain in local rain guages last night the inflow in the creeks this morning was pure chocolate and the water temps had dropped 6 degrees since tuesday afternoon. we tricked a couple keeper LMs out the creek ahead of the mudline, and managed a "mess of eatin ky's" and a handful of white bass. a slow bite got slower as the morning went on so the weather/mud had a negative impact on my pattern to say the least.
more cold rain in the forecast for friday night/saturday so the guys that are able to adjust and adapt will still catch fish (not something im good at ).
The crappie bite finally fizzled out for us, not sure if the rapidly falling water had an effect on them or not but it slowed way down, fun while it lasted.
The big bluegills are doing good , on tuesday we took an hour out from bass fishing and put 61 hand sized gills in the cooler, they are hitting worms and berkely powerbait mini tubes in 6-10 foot of water.
Hope this helps, good luck to all.